Market ends August with light trading ahead of Labor Day
Tech stocks extend monthly gains while blue chips rise for the seventh straight month. The Dow gains 41.61 to 9415.82, Nasdaq up 10.27 to 1810.45, S&P 500 up 5.17 to 1008.01. Volume light as traders take summer vacations. Greenspan reassures on deflation risk. Goodyear falls on 500 job cuts. Starbucks climbs on higher same store sales. PeopleSoft upgraded to outperform. Russell 2000 up 1.61 to 497.42.
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Gasoline in Texas Rises 7 Cents to 1.60 a Gallon
AAA Texas reports self serve regular averaging 1.60 a gallon as Labor Day travel rises with over 2.5 million Texans taking trips 50 miles or more. Dallas leads at 1.61, San Antonio at 1.56, while refinery shutdowns amid outages push prices up nationally.
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Consumer spending up 0.8 percent in July in rebound
Americans boosted July spending by 0.8 percent, the largest gain since March, aided by President Bush's tax cut. Discretionary income rose 1.5 percent, with durable goods up 2.1 percent and savings at 3.8 percent as markets advanced modestly. Greenspan warned on deflation risks while signaling rates could stay low.
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Crude prices edge up amid unrest and tight stocks
Crude oil futures in New York rose slightly as demand stays strong and inventories stay tight. Analysts cite geopolitical turmoil in Venezuela Nigeria and Iraq plus past outages from London to North America as factors supporting prices. Gasoline and heating oil futures also rose while the Nymex October crude settled up at 31.57 per barrel.
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