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Zigzag session ends positive for Wall Street | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper

Updated at 12:32 p.m., Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Zigzag session ends positive for Wall Street

Associated Press

Wall Street shot higher in a last-minute advance Wednesday after careening through a session made turbulent by ongoing concerns about U.S. home loans and the credit market. Stocks zigzagged for much of the session, with the Dow Jones industrials moving from positive to negative territory and back again before rallying to a gain of 150 points on bargain hunting during the last 20 minutes of trading.

  • The Dow rose 150.38, or 1.14 percent, to 13,362.37.

  • The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10.61, or 0.73 percent, to 1,465.88.

  • The Nasdaq composite index rose 7.60, or 0.30 percent, to 2,553.87.

    For the week:

  • The Dow is up 96.90, or 0.73 percent.

  • The S&P is up 3.68, or 0.47 percent.

  • The Nasdaq is down 8.37, or 0.33 percent.

    For the year:

  • The Dow is up 899.22, or 7.22 percent.

  • The S&P is up 47.58, or 3.35 percent.

  • The Nasdaq is up 138.58, or 5.74 percent.
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