Stocks ended mixed on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy should continue to improve and reiterated the Fed's commitment to keeping interest rates low.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 133 points on Thursday, moved up to finish 28 points higher.
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The S&P 500 was little changed, but Nasdaq lost 11 points.
The decision to cut to $75 billion the Fed's monthly bond buys did not signal any reduction in the central bank's commitment to "maintain a highly accommodative monetary policy for as long as needed," Bernanke told a gathering in Philadelphia. His eight-year tenure at the Fed ends at the end of January.














