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Wall Street posts first two-week surge since July


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks scored their first back-to-back weekly gains since early July on Friday, on strong Google earnings and as investors kept riding waves of optimism for a solution to the euro-zone debt crisis.

    The Dow Jones industrial average gained 166.36 points, or 1.45 percent, to end unofficially at 11,644.49. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 20.92 points, or 1.74 percent, to finish at 1,224.58. The Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 47.61 points, or 1.82 percent, to close unofficially at 2,667.85.

    For the week, the Dow unofficially gained 4.9 percent, while the S&P 500 jumped 6 percent and the Nasdaq shot up 7.6 percent.

    (Reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Jan Paschal)