Large Stock Focus: Disney, Alcoa Lift The DJIA
NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks climbed broadly as better-than-expected data on jobs and manufacturing lifted a broad swath of stocks, including Walt Disney and Alcoa.</br></br>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 70.44 points, or 0.7%, to 10927.07, the highest close since Sept. 26, 2008. With the stock market closed Friday, the Dow finished the trading week up 0.7%, its fifth consecutive week of advances. That is the Dow's longest weekly winning streak since April 2009.</br></br>The measure was led by some of its most economically sensitive components. Alcoa was the best performer, jumping 46 cents, or 3.2%, to $14.70. Disney climbed 64 cents, or 1.8%, to 35.55, and Caterpillar rose 1.14, or 1.8%, to 63.99.</br></br>The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 4.62, or 0.2%, to 2402.58. The measure climbed 0.3% this week, the fifth week in the black in a row and the longest weekly win streak since May.</br></br>The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index rose 8.67, or 0.7%, to 1178.10, the highest close since Sept. 26, 2008. All of the S&P 500's sectors ended in the black, led by materials and energy. It rose 1% this week for its fifth positive week.