2 Surprise Winners in the Stock Market Today
Thursday was another volatile day on Wall Street, but everything turned out well in the end. Some concerns about growth-oriented stocks led to some declines early in the trading session. Later in the day, however, investors seemed to catch their second wind. That ended up pushing some major market benchmarks into record territory and helped all of them recover from their losses.
With many of the most successful stocks over the past year succumbing to volatility, some of today's biggest winners were surprising. You wouldn't necessarily expect to find Kellogg (NYSE: K) or Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) on a list of top performers, but they were among the best stocks in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) by the end of the day on Thursday.
Stock markets finished the day with modest gains, and that was enough to send the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) to another closing record high. The S&P 500 fell just short of its high-water mark but finished above 4,200, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) was fortunate to claw its way back into positive territory.
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