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US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St ends week on high note as tech leads

NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - Wall Street rallied on Friday, led by tech stocks on the back of Applied Materials (NasdaqGS: AMAT - news) ' profit forecast, ending a volatile week on a positive note.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 64.86 points, or 0.37 percent, to 17,500.26, the S&P 500 gained 12.18 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,052.22 and the Nasdaq Composite added 57.03 points, or 1.21 percent, to 4,769.56. (Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Nick Zieminski)