NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are rising moderately on the final day of 2014 Wednesday, keeping the market on pace for its sixth consecutive year of gains.
KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,020 as of 9:55 a.m. Eastern. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose two points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,083 and the Nasdaq composite rose 12 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,790.