Stocks get modest gains after 4 days of losses ; Investors wait for August employment data.

The biggest gains came in the final half-hour, as some traders looked to buy ahead of the jobs data.

The Dow rose 63.94, or 0.7 percent, to 9,344.61. The S&P 500 index rose 8.49, or 0.9 percent,
to 1,003.24, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 16.13, or 0.8 percent, to 1,983.20.