Wall Street extends gains as payrolls surprise, Fed's Harker keeps rate cut hopes alive; S&P 500 tops 6,000

U.S. stocks advanced strongly by midday Friday, with investors cheering a better-than-expected May payrolls report while parsing new Fed signals. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose nearly 400 points, or 0.9%, while the S&P 500 reclai
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