--- description: Stocks bounced back from a poor stretch and ended Easter week ahead, with the S&P recording its best week since July. title: Stocks End Shortened Week Up image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Economy](/tag/economy/) ## Economy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # S&P Has Best Week Since Last Summer  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 17, 2014 9:05 PM CUT  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 17, 2014 9:05 PM CUT Stocks bounced back from a [poor start](http://time.com/60035/stocks-down-nearly-3-percent/ "undefined") to the month and ended the shortened week ahead, with the S&P recording its best week since July. The S&P rose .1 percent to 1,8645 Thursday and gained 2.7 percent on the week, which ends Thursday ahead of the Good Friday holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down slightly on the day, but both the Dow and the Nasdaq were up more than 2% for the week. Stocks were buoyed by a series of strong earnings reports this week, including from GE and Morgan Stanley. But a couple heavyweights bucked the trend. Google and IBM both reported poorer than expected results and saw their stocks tumble, with Google down 3.7% Thursday and IBM down 3.3%. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/67366/sp-has-best-week-since-last-summer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/67366/sp-has-best-week-since-last-summer/"},"headline":"S&P Has Best Week Since Last Summer","datePublished":"2014-04-17T21:05:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:22:14.939Z","description":"Stocks bounced back from a poor stretch and ended Easter week ahead, with the S&P recording its best week since July.","url":"https://time.com/67366/sp-has-best-week-since-last-summer/","keywords":["Economy","Earnings","Companies","Markets"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/economy/","name":"Economy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/67366/sp-has-best-week-since-last-summer/","name":"S&P Has Best Week Since Last Summer"}}]}] ```