Stock Market News for December 23, 2011-Investors received a pre-Christmas gift in the form of encouraging economic data, which led the benchmarks higher on Thursday.
Month: December 2011
Stocks Higher on Wall Street
Positive economic data spurs a rise in the stock indexes
Stocks rose on Thursday December 22nd putting the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index on the cusp of finishing out the year higher as another decline in jobless claims pointed to further improvement in the labor market.