International stock funds lost 6.3 percent, on average, breaking a string of six quarterly gains.

It was the second quarterly gain after four consecutive declines.

That is the best quarterly gain since 1988.

It represented the company's second consecutive quarterly gain, after years of deep losses.

More than 10,000 new jobs were added in the first three months of the year, the largest quarterly gain in six years.

The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index managed to eke out a small quarterly gain of 0.4 percent.

In the 1950's, there was a string of 10 consecutive quarterly gains.

For the fourth quarter as a whole, industrial production rose at an annual rate of 3.1 percent, its 10th consecutive quarterly gain.

That was the sector's sixth quarterly gain in a row and the largest since March 2001.

The Economy The economy grew at a 2% annual pace in the first three months of the year, the fourth straight quarterly gain.