Wall Street added to its recent gains Friday with a broad rally that broke the market’s three-week losing streak. The S&P 500 closed 1.5 percent higher, its third straight increase, and ended with a 3.7 percent gain for the week. That makes it the benchmark index’s best week going back to July. Big gains for technology…

Stock indexes on Wall Street closed solidly higher Wednesday, placing the market on pace to break a 3-week losing streak. The S&P 500 rose 1.8 percent Wednesday, its biggest single-day gain in four weeks, with roughly 95 percent of the stocks in the benchmark index closing higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.4 percent and the…

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Tuesday, extending the market’s losses into a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 fell 0.4 percent after bouncing between a gain of 0.5 percent and a loss of 1 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6 percent and the Nasdaq lost 0.7 percent. The major indexes are coming off…

Stocks gave up an early rally and closed lower Friday, marking their third losing week in a row and extending Wall Street’s late-summer slump. Major stock indexes initially climbed broadly following the government’s latest job market report, which showed employers slowed their hiring in August. The report put traders in a buying mood, stoking cautious…