SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's stock climbed to a new high Friday as Wall Street's best known indexes approached record territory, too.
The shares of the Internet search leader peaked at $776.70 during the afternoon to eclipse the stock's previous record of $774.38 reached in early October. It closed Friday at $775.60, up $19.91, or 2.6 percent for the session. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., went public at $85 a share in Aug. 2004.
Meanwhile the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 14,000 Friday for first time since October 2007 — near the bellwether's all-time high of 14,164. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index, which includes Google Inc., was up about 1 percent and also flirting with a record.
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