Some individual stocks ran laps around the broader stock market this week. The S & P 500 is headed for its fourth weekly gain in five weeks, rising 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, meanwhile, is on track for its fourth straight winning week, up 0.8%. The Nasdaq Composite bucked the trend, however, losing more than 0.3% this week. A bevy of economic data encouraged investors. The March producer price index released Thursday showed the basket of prices fell 0.
mountain Arrowhead, Syenos and Shockwave over the past five trading sessions. Outside of health, solar stocks Enphase and SunPower were also among the best performers this week. Both were up more than 11% since the week began. On Wednesday, SunPower announced a financing commitment of $450 million for solar loans. Bank of America upgraded the stock to neutral from underperform Thursday.