National News Indexes inch higher on Wall Street, preserving weekly gains Stocks eked out modest gains on Wall Street Thursday, extending the market's winning streak into a third day and keeping the major indexes on pace to end the week higher. by Associated Press Jul. 22 2021 @ 5:06pm Stocks eked out modest gains on Wall Street Thursday, extending the market's winning streak into a third day and keeping the major indexes on pace to end the week higher. The S&P 500 shrugged off a midday slide and rose 0.2%. Banks, energy companies and industrial stocks weighed on the benchmark index, though solid gains by Apple, Microsoft and other big technology stocks helped nudge the index up.