Actors dressed as Star Wars characters film a video outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York October 3, 2008. U.S. stocks advanced on Friday as Wells Fargo's proposed acquisition of troubled U.S. bank Wachovia Corp lifted financial shares and the House of Representatives readied to a vote on a $700 billion plan to shore up financial markets. Investors bet the House, which earlier this week rejected the legislation, would pass a revised bill to stabilize the U.S. financial sector. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES)