U.S. stocks traded higher toward the end of trading, with the Dow Jones gaining more than 300 points on Thursday. The Dow traded up 1.09% to 34,013.93 while the NASDAQ rose 2% to 12,167. The S&P 500, also rose, gaining, 1.30% to 4,145.27. Check This Out: $4M Bet On Jasper Therapeutics? Check Out These 3 Penny Stocks Insiders Are Aggressively Buying Leading and Lagging Sectors Consumer discretionary shares rose by 2.3% on Thursday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIE), up 13%, and WW International, Inc. (NASDAQ:WW), up 12%. In trading on Thursday, real estate fell by 0.4%. Top Headline U.S. natural-gas supplies climbed 25 billion cubic feet last week, the EIA said. Equities Trading UP Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNSL) shares shot up 39% to $3.8450 after Searchlight Capital and BCI submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire all outstanding shares of Consolidated Communications not owned by Searchlight or BCI for $4 per share. Shares of Ocean Biomedical, Inc. (NASDAQ:OCEA) got a boost, shooting 50% to $6.78. Ocean Biomedical’s co-founder, Jonathan Kurtis, has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for his U.S. patent application covering […]
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