A day after the central bank toned down concerns about rising prices, a key inflation gauge posted only a small increase.
At one point in the session, the Dow was up 65 points, and for the week the blue-chip gauge posted a 46-point46-point
[Page A12.] Main Stock Gauges Post Solid Gains Stocks advanced on new signs that interest rates could remain steady.
A1 Gauges Post Solid Gains After surging sharply in the previous three sessions, the stock market finished its best week since September.
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The three main gauges posted a weekly gain and snapped a two-week losing streak.
Last week, the three main gauges posted their biggest percentage declines since April, as deepening investor distrust in corporate America and a pessimistic forecast from Intel dampened investor sentiment.
All three major market gauges posted declines, with the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index falling to its lowest level in nearly three years.
PAGE A16 Stocks Post Quarterly Gain The three main stock gauges posted their first back-to-back quarterly gains since their tumble began in early 2000, reflecting improving corporate earnings and strengthening global markets.
Investors this week learned to love, or at least to live with, bad news, and the major gauges posted modest gains for the week as analysts began to anticipate somewhat more aggressive interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Reassuring comments by Procter & Gamble about earnings helped pull stock prices out of a late-September slide yesterday as two major gauges posted their biggest advance since May 30 and the Nasdaq market jumped 3.34percenttoto regain more than half the ground lost in the preceding five sessions.
