AFP, New York :
Wall Street stocks rose Friday, ending a three-day slide on worries about North Korea as investors stepped in to take advantage of a brief pullback in leading technology stocks.
The biggest winners were high-flying companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, all of which won at least one percent after falling with the broader market in the prior sessions.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1 percent to 21,858.32.
The broad-based S&P 500 added 0.1 percent at 2,441.32, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 0.6 percent to 6,256.56.
President Donald Trump kept the heat on North Korea, warning that the US military is “locked and loaded” in the event of a misstep by the totalitarian state.
Analysts described less unease than in prior days, even though the North Korea situation had not appreciably changed.
“Although there is all this rhetoric, there is a general feeling we are not going to come to war,” said Karl Haeling of LBBW.
Wall Street stocks rose Friday, ending a three-day slide on worries about North Korea as investors stepped in to take advantage of a brief pullback in leading technology stocks.
The biggest winners were high-flying companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, all of which won at least one percent after falling with the broader market in the prior sessions.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1 percent to 21,858.32.
The broad-based S&P 500 added 0.1 percent at 2,441.32, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 0.6 percent to 6,256.56.
President Donald Trump kept the heat on North Korea, warning that the US military is “locked and loaded” in the event of a misstep by the totalitarian state.
Analysts described less unease than in prior days, even though the North Korea situation had not appreciably changed.
“Although there is all this rhetoric, there is a general feeling we are not going to come to war,” said Karl Haeling of LBBW.
