NEW YORK: US blue chips recovered ground on Friday as falling oil prices offset a profit warning from aluminum maker Alcoa Inc, while a tech rally was fuelled by software maker Oracle Corp.
The technology-laced Nasdaq gathered steam during the session after Oracle got the green light from a US federal judge for its US$7.7bil proposed takeover of smaller rival software group PeopleSoft Inc.
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