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		</div><p>US stock indexes have inched to record highs after a late-afternoon push erased losses from earlier in the day.</p>
<p>It caps the fourth straight week of gains for the Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s 500 index, its longest such streak since July.</p>
<p>Reports through the week showed that the economy is improving and corporate profits are growing more quickly than analysts expected.</p>
<p>The encouraging data, along with hopes for lower taxes and other business-friendly policies from Washington, pushed the S&#038;P 500 to a 1.5% rise last week, its best weekly performance since the first week of January.</p>
<p>The S&#038;P 500 rose 3.94 points on Friday, or 0.2%, to 2,351.16.</p>
<p>The Dow Jones industrial average edged up by 4.28 points, less than 0.1%, to 20,624.05 and also set a record. The Nasdaq rose 23.68, or 0.4%, to 5,838.58, its own all-time high.</p>
<p>Slightly more stocks fell than rose on the New York Stock Exchange.</p>
<p>The last two days have been lacklustre for stocks, with the S&#038;P 500 dipping on Thursday, in comparison to the strong run they had been on.</p>
<p>That slowdown was more a result of investors looking to cash in some profits than on any fear or need to get out of the market, said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;People don&#8217;t want unnecessary risk heading into a three-day weekend,&#8221;</i> he said. <i>&#8220;This is more about taking off risk than about aggressive selling.&#8221;<i></p>
<p>US markets will be closed on Monday for Presidents Day.</p>
<p>Mr Kinahan pointed to relative calmness in the markets for the VIX index, which measures expectations for upcoming volatility in the S&#038;P 500, and for gold, a traditional landing spot when investors are nervous.</p>
<p>Kraft Heinz surged to the biggest gain in the S&#038;P 500 after it made an offer to buy European consumer goods giant Unilever.mUnilever rejected the bid, which offered 18% more than where Unilever&#8217;s shares closed on Thursday, and called it too low.</p>
<p>Kraft Heinz, which is behind the Lunchables and Oscar Mayer brands, jumped 9.37 dollars, or 10.7%, to 96.65.</p>
<p>US-listed shares of Unilever, which sells Breyers ice cream and Dove soap, surged 5.96 dollars, or 14%, to 48.53.</p>
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