LIVE MARKETS-Friday's a dud, but U.S. stocks still pop the cork on 9-weeks of gains

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Dow Jones Industrial Average DJI	44828.53	+0.77%
S&P 500 index SPX	6279.35	+0.83%
NASDAQ IXIC	20601.10	+1.02%
VanEck Vectors Indonesia Index ETF IDX	14.50	+0.21%

Main indexes end down Fri, but still post 9-week win streaks

Real Estate weakest S&P 500 sector; staples lead gainers

Dollar edges up; gold slips; crude, bitcoin dip

U.S. 10-Year Treasury yield edges up to ~3.87%

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FRIDAY'S A DUD, BUT U.S. STOCKS STILL POP THE CORK ON 9-WEEKS OF GAINS

U.S. stocks softened on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, capping a robust year-end rally as investors eyed easier monetary policy in the year ahead.

Nevertheless, the three main indexes still managed to all end up for a ninth-straight week.

That's the S&P 500 .SPX longest run of weekly gains since another nine-week winning streak that ended in early-2004. It's the DJI's .DJI longest stretch of weekly gains since another nine-week period that ended in late-February 2019, and it is the Nasdaq's .IXIC longest weekly win streak since it gained 10 weeks in a row into early-March 2019.

For the year, the DJI rose 13.7%, the SPX gained 24.23% and the IXIC advanced 43.42%.

Here is Friday's closing snapshot:

(Terence Gabriel)

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(Terence Gabriel is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)

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