A mixed December jobs report sent stocks higher at the open, and they kept climbing into the close. The gains were enough to keep all three main indexes positive on the week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 ending at new record highs.
At the session's end, the blue-chip Dow was up 0.5% at 49,504 and the broader S&P 500 was 0.7% higher at 6,966. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8% to 23,671, but remains just below its all-time closing high of 23,958.47 from October 29.
