LIVE MARKETS-S&P 500, Dow, extend monthly win streaks
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S&P 500, DOW, EXTEND MONTHLY WIN STREAKS
Wall Street's main indexes ended modestly higher on Friday with futures trading springing back to life from an hours-long CME Group outage that had temporarily frozen currencies, commodities and equity contracts around the globe.
With this, the main indexes all rose for a fifth straight day.
Nearly all S&P 500 .SPX sectors advanced. That said, changes were relatively subdued. Energy .SPNY, which rose 1.3%, was the only sector to post an absolute change of more than 1%. Healthcare .SPXHC, which lost 0.5%, was the only group to end in the red.
Big banks .SPXBK, chips .SOX and gold stocks .HUI were among the outperformers.
Of note, the S&P 500 and Dow .DJI both extended their win streaks to seven straight months. However, the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC snapped its seven-month win streak.
The S&P 500 last posted a seven-month win streak in August 2021. The Dow last advanced more than seven straight months with a 10-month stretch of gains that ended in January 2018. The Nasdaq last gained seven months in a row in January 2018.
Here is a snapshot of where markets stood around 1:14 p.m. ET.
(Terence Gabriel)
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