Tiik Washington Post
NEW YORK, July 5ÛÓStock -prices put together a broad rally 'today as interest rates tumbled in å¡the credit markets.</br></br>- ' Trading set its slowest pace of Ûªthe year as many market participants opted to take a long Independence Day weekend.</br></br>The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 8.06 to .1,334.45, closing out the week with a .net loss of 1.01.</br></br>Volume on the New York Exchange came to 62.45 million shares, down from 98.41 million Wednesday and the lightest total $ince 46.70 million changed hands last Dec. 26.</br></br>ÛÏ Before the market opened, the tabor Department reported that the civilian unemployment rate held steady at 7.3 percent in June.