HUD Homes Articles | The details of the rescue - not to mention how many hundreds of billions of dollars it will cost - remained a mystery, but investors snapped up stocks anyway in hopes the end of the credit crisis was near.
The Dow Jones industrials shot up about 370 points, giving them a two-day gain of about 780. The week also included a drop of more than 500 points on Monday and nearly 450 points on Wednesday.
You would never have known it from the anxiety that gripped Wall Street and Washington, not to mention dinner tables across the nation, but stocks ended the week virtually unchanged, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 33.55 points for the week, or 0.3 percent. The Dow stood at 11,388.44 after Friday’s trading, up more than 3 percent for the day.
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