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Title: Earnings, healthcare give Wall Street sixth straight gain
Post by: riky on April 23, 2014, 09:00:22 AM
Earnings, healthcare give Wall Street sixth straight gain

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/futures-flat-netflix-jumps-premarket-113557612--sector.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Xe79wu_Gi5OqxptGF2Sllw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-22T142332Z_3_CBREA3K15C900_RTROPTP_2_MARKETS-STOCKS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange" align="left" title="Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange" border="0" /></a>By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as a host of solid earnings reports, along with strength in the healthcare sector, helped lift the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq to their sixth straight advance. Netflix Inc surged 7 percent to $372.90 a day after reporting strong subscriber growth, a sign the trading favorite still had room to grow despite recent valuation concerns. The S&amp;P healthcare index , up 1 percent, was the best performer of the 10 major S&amp;P sectors. Allergan Inc jumped 15.2 percent to $163.65 a day after activist investor William Ackman teamed up with Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc to bid for the company.</p><br clear="all"/>

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