NEW YORK: US blue-chips closed at six-week highs on Friday, helped by reassuring consumer confidence data and a bounce in technology stocks, but volume was extremely thin before next week's Republican convention in New York City.
Semiconductor stocks rose with Intel Corp solidly boosting major market indexes. Its shares climbed 25 cents, or 1.15%, to US$22.02.
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