US stock market rise speed ups in late trading – seattlepi.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil and gas companies led U.S. stocks up Friday, setting the market up for its first gain in more than a week.KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 16 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,009, as of 3 p.m. Energy companies led all 10 of the index’s industries to gains, surging 3 percent.The Dow […]