: Stocks score 4th straight weekly gain in holiday-shortened trading

Stocks ended mostly higher in a subdued, abbreviated trading session Friday, with major indexes scoring a fourth straight weekly rise. Trading closed at 1 p.m. Eastern time after U.S. markets were closed Thursday for Thanksgiving Day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rose around 117 points, or 0.3%, to close near 35,390, according to preliminary figures, while the S&P 500 SPX rose 0.1% to end near 4,559 and the Nasdaq Composite COMP edged down 0.1%. The Dow rose 1.3% for the week, while the S&P 500 gained 1% and the Nasdaq added 0.9%.

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