Wall Street rose for a fifth straight day to put the wraps on a volatile month.

The S&P 500 rose 0.5 percent in abbreviated trading Friday and closed out November with a slim gain of 0.1 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 289 points, or 0.6 percent. The Nasdaq gained 0.7 percent but ended November with a drop of 1.5 percent because of losses for some big tech stocks.

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Stocks swooned in mid-month as investors worried that stocks boosted by the frenzy around artificial intelligence such as Nvidia had gotten too expensive. Nvidia lost 1.8 percent Friday and closed the month with a double-digit loss. Oracle fell 23 percent in November while Palantir Technologies sank 16 percent.

Some tech stocks did notch monthly gains, most notably Alphabet, which rose ne

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