U.S. Stocks Advance

... Michael Purves, chief strategist and head of equity derivatives research at Weeden & Co., a broker based in Greenwich, Conn., said the small-stock benchmark is trading more steadily than it has in recent weeks. It is up 0.3% so far this week, and ...

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