When the dust cleared, the benchmark stood just 47.6 points weaker at 6101.2, and many dealers believe the late buying points to a strong open to today's session.
Its benchmark rate has stood at 1% since December.
A year before Ireland adopted the euro, its benchmark interest rate stood at 6.19percentt, according to the Bank of Ireland, the nation's central bank.
California and 28 other states, as well as the District of Columbia, have a higher hourly minimum wage than the U.S. benchmark, which has stood at $7.25 since 2009.
The yield on the Treasury's benchmark 10-year note stood at 4.20percentt late Friday, up from 4percentt a week earlier.
By not lowering its benchmark rate, which has stood at 4percentt since the financial crisis began in August, the central bank is in effect making monetary policy for thriving Germany, the dominant economy of the euro zone.
Just a few years ago, when the Fed's benchmark federal funds rate stood at 5.5%, betting on the price appreciation of gold was a much riskier proposition.
The interest rate on the benchmark 10-year Spanish bond stood at 5.03 percent Thursday.
On Monday, the benchmark crude oil futures contract stood at $69.70 a barrel, up 54 cents in early trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The consumer price index spiked in the third quarter of 2008 and then came down, making the comparison difficult; as of July 2009, the benchmark CPI for all urban consumers stood at 215.351, down from 219.964 in July 2008.
