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Stocks ended mostly higher on Wall Street as gains for banks and industrial companies offset losses in technology and health care companies.
Bank of America rose 1.1% Thursday and Boeing climbed 2.9%. Micron Technology, a chipmaker, lost 2.3%.
Tesla sank 8.2% after the electric car maker said it delivered only 63,000 vehicles in the first quarter, down 31% from the previous quarter.
The S&P 500 index rose 5 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,879, extending its winning streak to six days.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 166 points, or 0.6%, to 26,384. The Nasdaq fell 3 points, or 0.1%, to 7,891.
Bond prices didn’t move much. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury held steady at 2.51%.