Stock market today: Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow rise toward a 5th straight day of gains to cap a rocky month

US stocks made small gains on Friday as a holiday-shortened week and volatile month drew to a close. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the market higher on Black Friday, gaining around 0.6% through mid-morning trading. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and generalist S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose by roughly 4%. Earlier in the day, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange restored trading operations after a long outage disrupted live trading in futures and options across several markets worldwide ...