U.S. stocks traded higher this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining more than 50 points on Friday.
Following the market opening Friday, the Dow traded up 0.19% to 39,669.09 while the NASDAQ gained 0.36% to 16,446.23. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.22% to 5,279.73.
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Leading and Lagging Sectors
Materials shares surged by 1.5% on Friday.
In trading on Friday, real estate shares fell by 0.3%.
Top Headline
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) reported better-than-expected first-quarter EPS and revenues.
JPMorgan Chase reported quarterly earnings of $5.07 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $4.62 per share. The company reported quarterly sales of $46.014 billion which beat …