US close: Stocks take step higher as Apple surges to record

Wall Street's main market gauges finished higher on Friday, helped by a record close for Apple stock, with traders apparently not overly bothered by the lack of a breakthrough in trade talks between Beijing and Washington. That was despite a somewhat mixed reading on the US jobs market for April, amid slower-than-expected wage growth and a dip in the labour force participation rate. Against that backdrop, by the closing bell the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 1.39% or 332.36 points higher at ...

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