NEW YORK—Wall Street closed out another volatile week of trading with a broad rally Friday, though it wasn’t nearly enough to keep the market from its sixth straight weekly drop, the longest such streak since 2011.
The S&P 500 climbed 2.4 percent. More than 90 percent of the companies in the benchmark index closed higher. The Nasdaq rose 3.8 percent as more gains in technology companies helped lift the tech-heavy index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5 percent.
The upbeat finish still left the indexes with weekly losses of more than 2.4 percent each, extending the string of weekly declines to six weeks for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, while the Dow registered its seventh straight weekly drop.
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