Stocks edge toward 'best December'

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;stocks-edge-toward-best-december&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"The Dow Jones industrials rose 9&period;84 points to close at 11&comma;585&period;38" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;min-stocks-edge-toward-best-december&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The Dow Jones industrials rose 9&period;84 points to close at 11&comma;585&period;38"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stocks have finished higher as the market continued on pace for its best December in nearly twenty years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Standard and Poor&&num;8217&semi;s 500-stock index &&num;8211&semi; the market measure used by most professional investors &&num;8211&semi; has gained 6&period;7&percnt; this month&period; If it closes on Friday at this level or higher&comma; it will be the best December return for the index since 1991&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trading continued to be thin ahead of the New Year&&num;8217&semi;s holiday&period; In the absence of any fresh economic data or major corporate news&comma; investors were attracted to the government&&num;8217&semi;s latest bond auction&period; Treasurys rallied and stocks also drew strength from the successful sale&period; Traders&&num;8217&semi; moods also appear to be buoyed by the mostly positive economic news of recent weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Strong corporate profits have helped push stocks higher for much of 2010&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dow Jones Industrial average closed 9&period;84 points higher&comma; or 0&period;1&percnt;&comma; to 11&comma;585&period;38&period; The S&&num;038&semi;P 500 rose 1&period;27&comma; or 0&period;1&percnt;&comma; to 1&comma;259&period;78&period; The technology-focused Nasdaq gained 4&period;05&comma; or nearly 0&period;2&percnt;&comma; to 2&comma;666&period;93&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stocks rose across the market&comma; with eight of the 10 industry groups in the S&&num;038&semi;P index posting gains&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stock trading volumes on Wall Street are expected to be light throughout the week between the Christmas and New Year&&num;8217&semi;s holidays&period; Many investors have already closed their books for the year and are on holiday until January&period; Trading volume totalled just 2&period;3 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange&comma; where seven shares rose for every three that fell&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The dollar fell 0&period;7&percnt; against an index of six heavily traded currencies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Looking ahead to Thursday&comma; investors will check for signs of how the housing market is performing when November data on pending home sales will be released&period; 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