NEW YORK: US blue chips ended slightly higher while the Nasdaq retreated on Friday, as worries about oil prices at 21-year highs and rising interest rates tempered positive earnings and economic data that underscored the economy's strength.
Altria Group Inc propped up the blue-chip Dow, helped by a bullish brokerage upgrade. But Cisco Systems Inc and Dell Inc were the biggest drags on the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq.
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