NEW YORK: US stocks ended higher on Friday as a bullish call on computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co and a brokerage firms upgrade of retailer Home Depot lifted the blue-chip Dow.
Earlier on Friday, stocks gained after a reassuring earnings outlook from General Electric Inc fed investors optimism that more companies would report positive profit news in the coming weeks. But GEs shares, the second most active on the New York Stock Exchange, gave up earlier gains to close down 7 cents at US$28.12.