U.S. stocks ended higher Friday and the S&P hit a fresh record high -- its seventh this year -- a day after a pause ended the Dow's nine-day winning streak.Investors continued to analyze incoming quarterly earnings reports and the release of the first post-'Brexit' economic data in Britain and Europe.The broader Standard & Poor's 500 climbed 0.4% to a new closing high of 2175.03, while the technology stock dominated Nasdaq composite gained 0.5%.The Dow Jones industrial average, which saw its longest daily winning streak in more than three years snapped Thursday, ended up 0.3%.The U.S. stock market has been on a bullish run since the initial two-day sell-off following the June 23 Britain vote to exit the eurozone. Prior to Thursday's pullback, both the Dow and S&P 500 have been hitting records after taking out their prior peaks dating back to May 2015.

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