U.S. stocks end higher after upbeat jobs data
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Stocks on Wall Street ended higher on Thursday, buoyed by encouraging data on the U.S. labor market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 24.50 points at 14,700.80; the benchmark pared its gains in the afternoon following a media report that Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann sent a confidential statement to the German constitutional court criticizing the European Central Bank's outright-monetary-transactions program. The S&P 500 index gained 6.37 points to 1,585.16 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 20.33 points to 3,289.99.
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