Weekly Market Wrap: October 17, 2014

A volatile forty-second trading week of 2014 comes to a close with the S&P 500, NASDAQ composite and Dow Jones all significantly higher in early-afternoon trading on Friday. Most actively traded stocks include Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) up 2.5%, Bank of America (BAC) higher by 0.9%, Apple (AAPL) up 1.7% and General Electric (GE) up 2.5%.