The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes, as well as the small cap Russell 2000 , hit record closing and intraday highs in thin trading, with the U.S. stock market closing at 1:00 p.m. ET (1700 GMT). For the week, the Dow and Nasdaq gained 1.5 percent, while the S&P 500 rose 1.4 percent.
MSCI's all-country world equity index .MIWD00000PUS was last up 1.86 points, or 0.45 percent, at 414.99.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI closed up 68.96 points, or 0.36 percent, at 19,152.14. The S&P 500 .SPX ended up 8.63 points, or 0.39 percent, at 2,213.35. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC closed up 18.24 points, or 0.34 percent, at 5,398.92.
Almost twice as many stocks fell as rose on the MSCI Asia Pacific Index, with a sub-gauge of energy shares leading losses, falling 0.6 percent as of 10 a.m. Tokyo time.
Reference : Reuters, Bloomberg
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