Wednesday

Today, stocks inched higher on a report of rising new home sales and better-than-expected durable-goods orders failed to excite investors. The markets waivered between slight gains and losses the whole day. Today was the seventh straight day of gains but barely so. The losers consisted of industrials like 3M and financials like JP Morgan Chase. This is all for today. We shall see what tomorrow brings! DJIA +4.23 S&P 500 +.12 NASDAQ +.20