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Stocks up slightly on strong retail results

Stocks resembled vacationers Friday, rising not-too-impressively in the morning and mostly laying around the rest of the day. Good news from retailers was the main reason indexes posted small gains. Apple helped by hitting a new high. But the dog days continued for Facebook, which fell 4 percent, falling to about half the price of its May IPO.