Broad Gain Ends Another Stronger Week for Stocks
NEW YOKE (AP)ÛÓThe stock market capped off its second straight advancing week with a broad gain yesterday in the heaviest trading so l'ar in 1978.</br></br>The Dow .Jones average of 30 industrials rose 5.89 to 768.71, finishing the week with a 10.13 gain after an 11.27-point advance the week before.</br></br>Gainers outpaced losers by close to a 5-2 margin in the daily New York Stock Exchange tally, and the NYSEÛªs composite common-stock index was up .37 at 50.25.</br></br>Big Board volume reached 28.47 million shares, up from 25.40 million Thursday and the heaviest total since a 29.15-million-share day last Nov. 23.</br></br>Nationwide turnover in NYSE-listed issues, including trades in those stocks on regional excanges and in ihe over-the-counter market, totaled 33 million shares.