Wall Street rises on earnings and employment data

FXstreet.com (San Francisco) - The US stocks market closed higher on Thursday as investors's confidence was buoyed by a bath of good corporate earnings reports and better than expected Jobless claims data. However, equities declined in the final hour on news that the Bundesbank doesn't back the OMT programme in Europe.

The Dow Jones advanced 0.17% or 24.50 points to close at 14,700.80. The S&P 500 added 6.37 points or 0.40% on the day to end at 1,585.16. And the Nasdaq Composite won 20.34 points or 0.62% to 3,289.99.