Mid-Afternoon Market Update: Markets Rising; La-Z Boy Takes a Beating

Toward the end of trading Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.23 percent to 13,015.60 while the NASDAQ rose 0.63 percent to 3,010.70. The S&P also rose, rallying 0.38 percent to 1,415.32. Top Headline Retail sales were reported this morning, coming at 1.6 percent, below the expected 3.5 percent. This sent the XRT,