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MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks Notch Records, Fourth Week Of Gains

U.S. stocks on Friday advanced to a fourth weekly gain, with both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 at all-time closes, after data cast a positive spin on the economy.The Conference Board's leading economic index rebounded in April from a downwardly revised reading in March. Separately, the initial May reading of the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters consumer-sentiment index jumped more than expected, according to news reports."Certainly economic data support the market rising, and there is still a huge element related to quantitative easing for sure," Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab, said of ongoing monetary easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve.That easing, which has involved three rounds of bond buying by the Fed, along with better-than-projected corporate earnings, has fueled a bull run, which entered a fifth year in March."We may have been in a bull market even if there was no quantitative easing and interest rates wer...

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