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Facebook 'likes' push Wall Street higher

From reuters.com

Wall Street climbed on Thursday as a blockbuster quarterly report from Facebook drove tech shares higher and a bounce in oil prices propped up the beleaguered energy sector. Facebook (FB.O) surged 15.5 percent in its biggest one-day leap since 2013 after the digital advertising behemoth smashed expectations with a 52-percent jump in fourth-quarter revenue. Helped also by a 4.28-percent gain in Alphabet (GOOGL.O), the S&P tech sector surged 1.48 percent. The S&P energy sector .SPNY rallied 3.15 percent, buoyed by a rise of almost 3 percent in oil prices due to speculation that Saudi Arabia and other OPEC ... (full story)

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