Stocks closed slightly higher Monday as investors turned their focus to corporate news and as tensions eased in Ukraine.On Monday:The Dow Jones industrial average rose 16.05 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,569.98.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 5.33 points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,936.92.The Nasdaq composite rose 30.43 points, or 0.7 percent, to 4,401.33.For the year:The Dow is down 6.68 points, less than 0.1 percent.The S&P 500 index is up 88.56 points, or 4.8 percent.The Nasdaq is up 224.74 points, or 5.4 percent. (***) …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
