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1 of 2. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 21, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid
NEW YORK | Fri Aug 23, 2013 4:12pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose for a second day on Friday, led by a jump in Microsoft shares as trading occurred without incident a day after the Nasdaq stock exchange was halted for several hours due to a technical problem. Friday's volume was low.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 46.62 points or 0.31 percent, to 15,010.36, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 6.5 points or 0.39 percent, to 1,663.46 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 19.085 points or 0.52 percent, to 3,657.792.
For the week the Dow fell 0.5 percent, the S&P gained 0.5 percent and the Nasdaq added 1.5 percent.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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