Dow touches 14,000 in early flurryIBM's earnings help lead tech surge from the opening bell.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks gained ground at the start of trading Thursday as investors cheered the day's earnings reports, particularly tech bellwether IBM. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 82 points and reached the 14,000 mark. The Nasdaq composite index gained 0.7 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was 0.3 percent higher. Among stocks in the news Thursday: Motorola (Charts, Fortune 500), Honeywell (Charts, Fortune 500), UnitedHealth (Charts, Fortune 500), IBM (Charts, Fortune 500), eBay (Charts, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (Charts, Fortune 500). |
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