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These 2 Stocks Will Lift the Nasdaq Friday

Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool
·3-min read

Investors came into Friday morning's stock market trading session on a positive note, reversing several weeks of downward pressure on the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) and other major market indexes. News that the U.S. economy had created 315,000 jobs in August seemed to hit the sweet spot in many market participants' minds, showing solid gains in the workforce but also perhaps constraining the Federal Reserve from being too aggressive with future interest rate increases. As of 9 a.m. ET, Nasdaq futures had risen about half a percent.

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