How the major stock indexes fared on Wednesday
Published: October 17, 2012
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A surprisingly strong housing report helped push stocks modestly higher, even as weak earnings reports from Intel and IBM weighed on the Dow Jones industrial average.
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The Dow Jones industrial average rose 5.22 points, less than 0.1 percent, to close at 13,557.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.99 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 1,460.91.
The Nasdaq composite index rose 2.95 points, or 0.1 percent, to close at 3,104.12.
For the week:
The Dow is up 228.15 points, or 1.7 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 32.32 points, or 2.3 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 60.01 points, or 2 percent.
For the year so far:
The Dow is up 1,339.44 points, or 11 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 203.31 points, or 16.2 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 498.97 points, or 19.2 percent.
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