Most Stocks Tick Up, Including a Jump for Beaten-Down Banks

Most Stocks Tick Up, Including a Jump for Beaten-Down Banks
A trader looks over his cell phone outside the New York Stock Exchange in the financial district of Manhattan in New York on Sept. 14, 2022. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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Stocks closed mostly higher on a steadying Wall Street as battered banks showed more strength, at least for now.

Markets have been in turmoil following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the second-largest U.S. bank failure in history, earlier this month, and then the third-largest failure, by New York-based Signature Bank.