The class="mandelbrot_refrag"> S&P 500 closed at a record high on Friday, buoyed by a rally in housing class="mandelbrot_refrag"> stocks after better-than-expected home sales and a jump in Hewlett-Packard shares a day after the personal computer maker said it would cut more jobs. The class="mandelbrot_refrag"> S&P 500 ended above 1,900, just below a record intraday high of 1,902.17 set on May 13 and above its record closing high of 1,897.45 the same day. Eight of the 10 class="mandelbrot_refrag"> S&P sector indexes ended higher for the day. true The class="mandelbrot_refrag"> Dow Jones Transportation Average .DJT rose 0.8 percent to close at a record high, after hitting a lifetime intraday high of 7,995.39. Housing class="mandelbrot_refrag"> stocks ranked among the market's biggest outperformers, with the housing index .HGX up 1.9 percent. Big tech names like class=