Wall Street closes higher as Apple, tech rally squashes virus fears

Apple and other tech stocks again rode to Wall Street’s rescue on Friday, lifting the main indexes more than 1%. Investors started buying beaten-down shares after the Nasdaq entered corrective territory last week and the S&P 500 briefly broke that barrier earlier this week.
Both the Dow and S&P 500 posted their fourth straight weekly declines, the longest weekly losing streak since August 2019. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, however, closed higher for the week after falling the previous th