U.S. stocks rally; Dow at record on earnings, Asian rebound

4:30 pm ET Apr 20, 2007

DJIA

12,961

+153.35

S&P

1,484

+13.62

NASDAQ

2,526

+21.04

10Yr

4.67%

+0.002

U.S. stocks rally; Dow at record on earnings, Asian rebound

NEW YORK
U.S. stocks rallied Friday, lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average to
another record high while the broader market scored strong weekly gains,
following a rebound rally in Asian markets overnight and
better-than-expected earnings from the likes of Caterpillar Inc. and
Google Inc.

DoubleClick parries privacy concerns raised by Google merger

SAN FRANCISCO
Internet-advertising provider DoubleClick Inc. defended on Friday its
proposed $3.1 billion merger with Google Inc., which has been criticized
by Google's biggest competitors and a handful of digital-privacy
advocates.

Research In Motion isolates cause of BlackBerry blackout

SAN FRANCISCO
Research In Motion has finally explained the systemwide outage that shut
down its popular BlackBerry service for hours earlier this week.