17-02-2015 20:45 via news.yahoo.com

Wall St. edges up; S&P hits 2,100 on Greece hopes

U.S. stocks inched higher on Tuesday, pushing the S&P 500 above 2,100 to another record intraday high as optimism grew that a debt deal would be reached with Greece. The report follows a collapse of deal negotiations on Monday, which led to European Union finance ministers pressuring the country to remain in an international financial rescue program. U.S.-listed shares of the National Bank of Greece were up 1.6 percent after falling more than 13 percent earlier in the session. Despite that,
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