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02-01-2018, 12:40 PM
Tech, bank stocks lead Wall Street higher
Facebook (FB.O) rose 4.3 percent after the company said it expects ad sales to rise despite a dip in usage on the social media network. Microsoft (MSFT.O) was up 0.88 percent, reversing from a decline in premarket trading, after beating Wall Street's profit forecast on growth in its cloud computing business. At 12:32 p.m. ET (1732 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was up 141.57 points, or 0.54 percent, at 26,290.96, the S&P 500 (.SPX) was up 9.92 points, or 0.35 percent, at 2,833.73 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was up 18.31 points, or 0.25 percent, at 7,429.79.
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Facebook (FB.O) rose 4.3 percent after the company said it expects ad sales to rise despite a dip in usage on the social media network. Microsoft (MSFT.O) was up 0.88 percent, reversing from a decline in premarket trading, after beating Wall Street's profit forecast on growth in its cloud computing business. At 12:32 p.m. ET (1732 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was up 141.57 points, or 0.54 percent, at 26,290.96, the S&P 500 (.SPX) was up 9.92 points, or 0.35 percent, at 2,833.73 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was up 18.31 points, or 0.25 percent, at 7,429.79.
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