Steady As She Goes

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A stronger-than-expected report on April job growth came out Friday but failed to send a charge into skittish investors, who pulled back late in the last day of a week that saw the main market indexes up only slightly. The main concern dampening the government’s report of 274,000 new jobs for the month: higher interest rates. For the week, the Dow Jones industrial average was up a point to finish at 10,345.40, while the Nasdaq was up a little more than 2 percent to close at 1,967.35.

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