U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, capping a choppy week of trading with the market’s third winning week in the last four and another milestone.

The S&P 500 rose 0.8 percent, finishing just shy of the record it set last week. The benchmark index also wiped out its losses from a slide last week.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.5 percent, and the Nasdaq composite added 1 percent to the all-time high it set a day earlier.

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Technology companies, with their hefty stock values, did much of the heavy lifting for the market. Nvidia rose 1.1 percent and Apple gained 4.2 percent.

Gilead Sciences jumped 8.3 percent for one of the market's biggest gains. It reported financial results that easily beat analysts' forecasts, while also raising its earnings forecast for

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