How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Friday
NEW YORK — Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by better-than-expected quarterly results from Google’s parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon and a modest recovery in oil prices. On Friday: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 24.11 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,432.24. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 3.54 points, or 0.2 percent,