Stocks End Higher for 6th Week; Apple Jumps

Dow has been threading up for the past one week with thin volume and major Europe indexes has hit new highs. Are we expecting more good news to come for this quarter?

Quote from CNBC:
Stocks finished higher in a tight-range session Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 logging gains for the sixth-consecutive week, following a pair of better-than-expected economic reports.
All three major averages have rallied more than 10 percent since hitting their intraday lows on June 4.

Major U.S. Indexes

LastToday's % Change1 Week % Change% ChangeMTD % ChangeYTD % Change
Dow13275.200.19%0.51%2.05%8.66%
NASDAQ3076.590.46%1.84%4.66%18.10%
S&P 5001418.160.19%0.87%2.82%12.77%
Russell 2000819.890.84%2.29%4.19%10.66%
CBOE VIX13.47-5.74%-8.62%-28.84%-42.44%

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 25.09 points, or 0.19 percent to close at 13,275.90, but a few points below its closing high of December 2007. The blue-chip index traded in a tight 36-point range, its narrowest in more than two years.
The S&P 500 eked out a gain of 2.65 points, or 0.19 percent, to finish at 1,418.16. The Nasdaq climbed 14.20 points, or 0.46 percent, to end at 3,076.59.

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