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4D Daily News – Tuesday, December 31, 2013 Stocks barely budge in quiet end-of-year trading NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market ended a quiet Monday mostly where it began as investors shut their books for what has been an extraordinary year on Wall Street. Traders had little corporate or economic news to work through. The bond market was quiet as well. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note continued to hover near 3 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average moved less than 30 points the entire day, the narrowest range for the index since February 2007. Approximately 2.3 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, 40 percent less than average. The Dow ended the day up 25.88 points, or 0.2 percent, to 16,504.29. ''The very narrow range reflects that there's Wall Street not a lot of news out there and a lot of investors' positions are closed for the year,'' said Alec Young, chief global strategist with S&P Capital IQ. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell less than a point to 1,841.07 and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 2.39 points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,154.20. Walt Disney rose $1.88, or 3 percent, to $76.23, the most in the S&P 500. Analysts at Guggenhiem Securities upgraded Disney's stock to a ''buy'' from a ''hold'' on Friday. With just one trading day left in the year, 2013 is looking to be a memorable one for investors. The S&P 500 is up 29.1 percent so far, on pace for its best year since 1997. The Dow is up 26 percent, the CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. GARY'S AUTO BODY & 24 HOUR TOWING, INC. 13540 Trinity Ave, Red Bluff (530) 527-8262 • (530) 528-8261 IF NO ANSWER CALL 529-7400 most since 1996. With 2013 in the books, investors have turned their attention to the beginning of 2014. Few expect next year to be as good to investors as 2013 was. 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