On Thursday:
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 rose 51.93 points, or 0.8%, to 6,279.35.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 344.11 points, or 0.8%, to 44,828.53.
The Nasdaq composite rose 207.97 points, or 1%, to 20,601.10.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 22.66 points, or 1%, to 2,249.04.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 106.28 points, or 1.7%.
The Dow is up 1,009.26 points, or 2.3%.
The Nasdaq is up 327.64 points, or 1.6%.
The Russell 2000 is up 76.51 points, or 3.5%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 397.72 points, or 6.8%.
The Dow is up 2,284.31 points, or 5.4%.
The Nasdaq is up 1,290.31 points, or 6.7%.
The Russell 2000 is up 18.88 points, or 0.8%.
President Donald Trump has looked to the marble finishes and hefty price tag of the Federal Reserve headquarters to claim grounds to fire Chair Jerome Powell, with whom he has tussled for years over interest rates. But the extensive use of marble in the building is, at least in part, the result of policies backed by Trump himself.
