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The Labor Department includes only those actively looking for jobs when calculating the main unemployment rate. Bond traders, howev- expectations. Informa- tion technology compa- nies saw the strongest gains out of the 10 industries represented in the S&P 500 index. Tyson Foods Inc. rose almost 6 percent. Tyson’s profits increased 86 percent last quarter, in part because of rising prices for beef and pork. The Dow Jones indus- er, took the employment report as evidence of a stronger job market. They drove Treasury prices down and yields up. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note jumped to 3.64 percent, the highest yield since last May. The 10-year yield is widely used to set borrowing rates on a wide variety of loans. Strong earnings gave some stocks a lift. Health insurer Aetna Inc. shot up 12.5 per- cent. The company said it will nearly quadruple its quarterly dividend payment to shareholders after its fourth-quarter profit climbed 30 per- cent. JDS Uniphase Corp. soared 27 percent. The maker of telecom and cable equipment report- ed quarterly results that blew past analysts’ trial average rose 29.89 points, or 0.3 percent, to close at 12,092.15. The Dow climbed 2.3 percent for the week and has posted gains for nine of the last 10 weeks. The average of 30 large com- pany stocks cleared the 12,000 mark Tuesday, the first time it closed above that level since June 2008. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 3.77 points, or 0.3 per- cent, to 1,310.87. The Nasdaq composite gained 15.42 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,769.30. The S&P 500 rose 2.7 percent for the week and the Nasdaq 3 percent. All three major index- es fell last week. Finan- cial markets were jarred by swelling protests in Egypt aimed at toppling Hosni Mubarak’s 30- year grip on power. Falling shares and ris- ing ones were almost evenly matched on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated trading volume came to 4 billion shares. COMFORT SERVICE INC. 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