Still, it finished at 2,235.24, up 51.89 for the holiday-shortened week.

The Treasury will be selling $55.45 billion in bills and notes during a holiday-shortened week.

The Nasdaq finished a holiday-shortened week at 1,961.43, up 241.07 points, or 14 percent.

At the close of the Easter holiday-shortened previous week, its price was 92 7/32, yielding 8.20 percent.

The key indicator finished with a 20.05-point advance for the holiday-shortened week.

That brought the loss in the holiday-shortened week to 23.02 points.

The dow finished the holiday-shortened week at 1997.67, up 24.37.

Thin trading in a holiday-shortened week is expected to keep market activity to a minimum.

All three main market gauges fell in the holiday-shortened week.

For the holiday-shortened week, the Dow was up 58.89 points.