Wall Street steadied itself after Alphabet and other technology stocks rose.
The S&P 500 added 0.5 percent Wednesday and broke the two-day losing skid it’s been on since setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1 percent, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1 percent.
Google’s parent company was one of the strongest forces lifting the market after avoiding some of the worst-case scenarios in an antitrust case. Also helping to steady Wall Street was the bond market, where yields eased following a weaker-than-expected update on the U.S. job market. A day earlier, climbing yields worldwide raised the pressure on the stock market.
On Wednesday:
The S&P 500 rose 32.72 points, or 0.5 percent, to 6,448.26.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 24.58 points, or 0.1 percent, to 45,271.23.
The Nasdaq composite rose 218.10 points, or 1 percent, to 21,497.73.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 2.24 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,349.97.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 12 points, or 0.2 percent.
The Dow is down 273.65 points, or 0.6 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 42.17 points, or 0.2 percent.
The Russell 2000 is down 16.45 points, or 0.7 percent.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 566.63 points, or 9.6 percent.
The Dow is up 2,727.01 points, or 6.4 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 2,186.93 points, or 11.3 percent.
The Russell 2000 is up 119.81 points, or 5.4 percent.
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