Wall Street up on data, ECB move

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Reuters NEW YORK
Last Updated : May 02 2013 | 7:20 PM IST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank and better-than-expected weekly jobless claims data in the U.S. boosted investors' appetite for risky assets, a day after the largest drop on the S&P 500 in two weeks.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 44.54 points or 0.3 percent, to 14,745.49, the S&P 500 gained 4.73 points or 0.3 percent, to 1,587.43 and the Nasdaq Composite added 10.99 points or 0.33 percent, to 3,310.12.

(Reporting by Angela Moon; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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First Published: May 02 2013 | 7:06 PM IST

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