Stocks Close Slightly Higher

US stock indexes are finishing with small gains Wednesday as video game makers gave technology companies a boost and household goods companies also rose, the AP reports. Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two Interactive jumped 10.6% after it announced strong sales. Activision Blizzard rose 5.9% after it said the new Call of Duty game is selling well. Energy companies slipped, and a recent decline in interest rates continued to weigh on banks. Bank of America fell 1.4%. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 3 points, or 0.1% to 2,594. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 6 points, or less than 0.1%, to 23,563. The Nasdaq composite rose 21 points, or 0.3%, to 6,789. (More stock market stories.)