Another Good Week

Wall Street closed with a second week of gains, as the Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor’s and Nasdaq indices posted their best performances this year, bolstered by strong inflows of dollars from mutual funds. Investors viewed weaker-than-expected unemployment numbers as a possible end to current interest-rate hikes. The economy added 146,000 new jobs in January, the Labor Department said, an increase barely on a par with the long-term growth of the labor force and much less than the 180,000 jobs a month created last year.