US STOCKS-Wall St rises 3 pct for week on Friday's slim gain

* Brokerage upgrades offset data; GE up 6 pct * U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 pct, highest in over 26 yrs * Dow up 0.2 pct, S&P 500 up 0.3 pct, Nasdaq up 0.3 pct

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By Chuck Mikolajczak

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose 3 percent for the week after ending Friday's session slightly higher, shrugging off government data showing the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent -- the highest in 26-1/2 years.

General Electric Co (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped 6.2 percent to $15.33 after two analysts' upgrades and helped push the industrial sector higher. The S&P industrial index was up 1.2 percent.

In a choppy session Friday, the market fell at the open and briefly turned positive after closer inspection of the report showed payroll losses kept declining and job losses for earlier months were revised lower. For details, see [ID:nN06178752].

"Big-cap stocks are the ones with leverage issues, but they seem to have picked up a lot of interest from investors of late," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Asset Management in Bedford Hills, New York.

"We're certainly seeing continued evidence of economic improvement -- except on the employment side -- but even there, perhaps we may have seen about the worst."

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI gained 17.46 points, or 0.17 percent, to end at 10,023.42. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 2.67 points, or 0.25 percent, to 1,069.30. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC added 7.12 points, or 0.34 percent, to close at 2,112.44.