NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market seems to be steadying on Friday, as banks recover some of their sharp losses from the day before, but Wall Street has been prone to big swings hour to hour over the last week.

The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 138 points, or 0.3%, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% higher.

Bank stocks stabilized after several reported stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, including Truist Financial, Fifth Third Bancorp and Huntington Bancshares. That helped steady the group, a day after stocks across the industry tumbled on worries about potentially bad loans hitting smaller and midsized banks.

The two banks at the center of Thursday’s concerns also rose Friday to trim

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