NEW YORK: Stocks rose on Friday, after Saudi Arabia’s call for higher oil production drove oil prices below US$40 a barrel, easing worries that soaring energy costs could derail the recovering US economy.
Alcoa Incalso helped support the blue-chip Dow, after the aluminium producer announced job cuts in Mexico.
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