Stock indexes finished mostly higher on Friday (Saturday in Manila) as Wall Street shook off an early slide, closing out a solid week of gains for the market.

The S&P 500 index inched up 0.2 percent after having been down 0.5 percent. It ended the week with a 3.2-percent gain, largely due to a big rally on Monday that offset all of the benchmark index’s losses from earlier in the month.

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