April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday as hopes
for a truce in an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia
and a cut in oil output drove gains, taking some sting out of a
shocking jump in Americans filing jobless claims due to
coronavirus-led lockdowns.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 466.58 points,
or 2.23%, to end at 21,410.09 points, the S&P 500 .SPX gained
56.09 points, or 2.27%, to 2,526.59 and the Nasdaq Composite
.IXIC added 126.73 points, or 1.72%, to 7,487.31.