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Urgent: U.S. stocks tick up on upbeat earnings, oil recovery

Xinhua, January 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks ended higher after choppy trade Thursday, as Wall Street cheered over positive earnings reports and continued oil recovery.

The Dow rose 0.79 percent, and the S&P 500 gained 0.55 percent, while the Nasdaq added 0.86 percent. Endit