Hope Springs: Dow Gains for Seventh Day as Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Earnings on Tap

It was a quiet Columbus Day on Wall Street. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The S&P 500 ticked up 0.1% to 2,017.46, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% to 17,131.86, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.2% to 4,838.64. Just 5.1 billion shares changed hands today, the third-lightest volume day of the year. The calm should end tomorrow, not only because […]