FILE - This Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, file photo shows the New York Stock Exchange at sunset, in lower Manhattan. U.S. stocks are rising Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, as retailers climb at the start of the post-Thanksgiving shopping period while energy companies rise as investors hope for a new deal that limits oil production. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks set more records in quiet post-holiday trading Friday as technology companies again did much of the heavy lifting. Energy companies rose with the price of oil.

Macy's and some of its retail counterparts rose after the department store's CEO said Black Friday sales were going well. Online titan Amazon made an even bigger gain. Oil prices and energy companies rose after Bloomberg reported that a group of key oil producers plans to extend production cuts until the end of 2018.

"If you take the cumulative effect of online and foot traffic going into the stores, it's showing you a robust consumer spending pattern," said Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.34 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 2,602.42, its first close above 2,600.

The Dow Jones industrial average added 31.81 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 23,557.99. The Nasdaq composite gained 21.80 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 6,889.16. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies climbed 2.40 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 1,519.16.

The Dow finished slightly below its record high from Tuesday but the other major indexes closed at all-time highs. Trading ended early after the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.

Macy's CEO Jeffrey Gennette told CNBC holiday shopping is off to a good start with relatively few discounts and strong sales of some especially profitable products like winter clothing. Macy's gained 44 cents, or 2.1 per cent, to $21.07 and other department stores climbed as well.

Experts are mostly predicting strong sales over the holiday shopping period because of increased consumer confidence and a very low unemployment rate. The National Retail Federation trade group expects sales to grow at least as fast as they did last year.

Big retailers like Wal-Mart and Urban Outfitters and Gap have also reported strong quarterly results recently. On Friday, Gap added 47 cents, or 1.6 per cent, to $29.64 and electronics retailer Best Buy gained 51 cents to $57. Amazon's stock rose $29.84, or 2.6 per cent, to $1,186.

Amazon, along with tech giants Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google's parent company Alphabet, have played a huge role in the market's gains this year. Those five companies combined are responsible for more than one-fourth of the value the S&P 500 has gained this year. Amazon and Facebook closed all-time highs Friday and the other three set record highs earlier this month.

U.S. benchmark crude rose 93 cents, or 1.6 per cent, to $58.95 a barrel in New York. Krosby said the Keystone oil pipeline spill earlier this month has also pushed U.S. oil prices higher by disrupting supplies.

Brent crude, used to price international oils, added 31 cents to $63.86 a barrel in London.

Hess gained 95 cents, or 2.2 per cent, to $44.40 and Marathon Oil added 25 cents, or 1.7 per cent, to $15.13.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn disclosed that he's acquired a 13.5 per cent stake in SandRidge Energy. A week ago SandRidge agreed to buy oil and gas company Bonanza Creek Energy, and Icahn said he's opposed to the $736 million deal. Another major SandRidge investor, Fir Tree Partners, is also against the deal. SandRidge jumped $1.40, or 8 per cent, to $18.90 while Bonanza tumbled $3.76, or 11.7 per cent, to $28.38.

In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline added 2 cents to $1.79 a gallon. Heating oil rose 2 cents to $1.95 a gallon. Natural gas sank 16 cents, or 5.2 per cent, to $2.81.

The dollar rose to 111.58 yen from 111.23 yen. The euro climbed to $1.1927 from $1.1853.

Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.34 per cent from 2.32 per cent late Wednesday.

Gold fell $4.90 to $1,287.30 an ounce. Silver lost 12 cents to $16.99 an ounce. Copper rose 3 cents to $3.17 a pound.

France's CAC 40 rose 0.2 per cent and the DAX in Germany gained 0.4 per cent. Britain's FTSE 100 slipped 0.1 per cent. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.1 per cent while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong rebounded 0.5 per cent and South Korea's Kospi added 0.3 per cent.

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