Energy leads US stocks indexes to a mostly higher finish
(WorldNews Business)

A listless day on Wall Street finished with U.S. stocks eking out small gains Friday, as strength in energy, phone and industrial companies offset losses elsewhere. Some health insurers bounced back as support dwindled for the Senate Republicans` latest effort to roll back the Affordable Care Act. Real estate and utilities companies were among the biggest decliners. A new round of tensions between the U.S. and North Korea helped send bond yields lower, which weighed on banks and other financial stocks. The sector notched daily gains earlier in the week. `Geopolitical tensions coming out of North Korea caused a flight to quality, which kind of put the brakes on the momentum in financials,`...