Stocks finished the Friday session with minimal gains, but the indexes all notched gains for the week ranging from four-tenths to nine-tenths percent.
Today, the Dow Industrials edged up 3 points, the Nasdaq Composite roe 17 and the S&P 500 ended just above the flatline.
Oil futures rose again today, with the front-month contract settling above $60 for the first time in three months. January crude jumped 89 cents, or 1.5%, to settle at $60.07a barrel.
Sluggish retail sales data for November! The Commerce Department says sales rose just two-tenths percent last month, well shy of the half-percent that economists had been expecting.
A popular vegan restaurant in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District will reopen next month. Seed, closed since late summer for renovations, announced that it will be back in business in early January under new owners … with a bigger dining room and an expanded bar area.