NEW YORK: Stocks closed slightly higher on Friday, as a March 17 deadline for Iraq to meet disarmament demands or face war fed investor hopes for resolution to a crisis that has depressed markets for months.
On a see-saw day, dismal jobs data sent market gauges sharply lower at the open before reports suggesting the United States was closing in on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lifted stocks to hover around the unchanged mark.
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