Will U.S. stock buyers beat back the bear?

Through Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) – After the S&P 500's first weekly gain in a month, investors will see subsequent week whether or not the U.S. stock market's rally of the final two days is the form of higher things to come – or if this 12 months's weak spot will turn out to be a full-fledged correction. The 2.6 percent acquire for Thursday and Friday marked the S&P 500's easiest two-day performance in 4 months. That rally helped Wall Side road get better some floor from the newest slide, which had pushed the benchmark index down as a lot as 6 percent from its record closing high set on January 15. Wall Boulevard defines a inventory market correction as a drop of at the least 10 p.c from the earlier excessive.