Stock Prices Rebound After Two-Day Sell-off: Many More Gainers Oil Shames Buoyant Airlines Strc
NEW YORK, Sept. 13ÛÓ The stock market put the brakes to its profit-taking slide and moved higher today in active trading.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day with a gain of 1.56 points at 917.21. At its best levels, the Dow was ahead only a little more than two points.</br></br>Standard and PoorÛªs 500-stock composite added 0.34 point to 100.86 and the New York Stock Exchange index rose 0.21 point to 56.40.</br></br>Trading volume was lower than on Thursday, but the difference traced to the lack of an opening surge of orders held over from WednesdayÛªs closing. The final totals Showed 13.08 million shares had crossed the tape, compared with 14.63 million in the previous session.</br></br>Advancing stocks outnumbered declines by 741 to 569. On Thursday, there were 610 winners and 741 losers. There were 94 new 1968 highs, up from 63, and 17 new lows, down from 18.