The major gauges barely budged Thursday, but it was a big day for buyout rumors. The S&P 500 was only up about one point, but that was enough notch another all-time high. The index is slowly closing in on 2,000. The Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq both ended flat as investors focused…

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S&P 500 inches to new high … but not 2,000
