US30 View!!* The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at 42,313.00 on Friday, compared with 42,063.36 a week ago. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 18,119.59 versus 17,948.32 a week prior, and the S&P 500 finished at 5,738.17 compared with 5,702.55 a week earlier. Basic materials, the home to industries such as aluminum, building materials, and copper, topped the US sector charts.
* In Beijing on Thursday, the nation's Politburo vowed the "necessary fiscal spending" required to reach its annual 5% gross domestic product growth target and to support property markets after recent monetary easing moves by the People's Bank of China.