Stocks end mostly higher after housing starts jump

Published October 17, 2012 8:08pm ET



A surprisingly strong housing report helped push stocks modestly higher, even as weak earnings reports from Intel and IBM weighed on the Dow Jones industrial average.

The Dow eked out a gain of five points to close at 13,557.

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