Banks, commodity stocks lift S&P 500 to five-year high
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bank and commodity shares led the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a fresh five-year closing high on Tuesday on hopes that the global economy continues to mend. Travelers’ shares climbed after the insurer’s results and lifted the Dow Jones industrial average to a new five-year closing high. On Friday, both the Dow and the S&P 500 ended at five-year highs after the quarterly earnings season got off to a solid start. On Monday, the U. S. stock market was closed in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. , holiday. . . .
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