Financial, retail stocks lure buyers

NEW YORK Stocks are higher Thursday after mostly falling for three days as traders scooped up beaten-down financial and retail stocks. A worse-than-expected weekly unemployment report added to concerns that the economic recovery might not come as quickly as hoped.

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 46 points at 8,331.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 9 at 893, and the Nasdaq composite index is up 25 to 1,689.

SEARCH FOR NEW YORK AREA JOBS

USEFUL LINKS:
FINANCIAL RESOURCES  || LOCAL STOCKS ||  GET WIDGET

 EYEWITNESS TWITTER ||  FIND US ON FACEBOOK