Markets The stock market traded lower for most of the day, reacting to poor economic reports, but it closed modestly higher.

Investors reacted positively to reports of a spinoff, sending the stock up 2.5 percent, to $58.30.

Purdue Pharma executives say the company reacted swiftly to reports of its drug's abuse.

Human rights groups reacted warily to reports of the new manual, in part because they have not seen a copy.

City officials, reacting to initial reports of price gouging, put a freeze on water prices.

The dollar often reacts negatively to such reports because they reduce the likelihood of higher interest rates.

He reacted with ambivalence to reports of the monsignor's dismissal.

Wall Street reacted negatively to reports of a production cut.

The differences could not have been more apparent than in how they reacted to reports of past drug use by some White House employees.

The lawmakers are reacting to continued reports of human rights abuses by the Peruvian security forces.