Closing Glance: Shares of household durables mostly rise
NEW YORK—Household-durables stocks mostly rose Thursday as Wall Street rallied on news consumer spending rose in March, U.S. manufacturing shrank less than expected in April and the dollar got a boost.
How some stocks of household-durables companies traded:
Black & Decker Corp., up $1.50, or 2.3 percent, to $67.13.
Whirlpool Corp., up $2.20, or 3 percent, to $74.98.
Snap-on Inc., down 14 cents to $59.17.
Stanley Works, up $1.42, or 2.9 percent, to $49.66.
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