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US stocks rise amid Greece talks | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
(Close): Stocks on Wall Street closed up slightly as investors followed talks between Greece and its creditors. | |
The Greek government has requested a new bailout deal from the eurozone. | |
Greece is now just hours away from a deadline to repay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the International Monetary Fund. | Greece is now just hours away from a deadline to repay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the International Monetary Fund. |
After seeing sharp falls on Monday, the Dow Jones rose 23 points, or 0.1%, to 17,619. The S&P 500 index gained five points, or 0.3%, to 2,063. | |
The tech-focused Nasdaq index climbed 28 points, or 0.6%, to 4,986. | |
Among individual stocks, shares in ConAgra Foods rose 0.67% after company said it would exit its private label foods business. | |
General Electric shares fell 0.26% after it sold its European private equity financing business to a unit of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp for about $2.2bn. |
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