By Victor Reklaitis
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks rose on Friday, extending their gains for the week and month with retail stocks in focus as holiday shoppers packed stores. The main indexes are working for record closes again, in what would be a sixth straight all-time closing high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +0.31% . Volumes are expected to be light Friday given that many traders are still on vacation following the Thanksgiving holiday and the trading session will end at 1 p.m. Eastern time, three hours earlier than normal. The S&P 500 SPX +0.22% was last up 2 points, or 0.1%, to 1,810, while the Dow rose 28 points, or 0.2%, to 16,126. The Nasdaq Composite COMP +0.33% gained 15 points, or 0.4%, to 4,060.
