Stocks come bouncing backTechs lead charge forward as investors cheer earnings at the open; Nasdaq up 0.8%.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks, led by tech issues, surged forward at Wednesday's open on the strength of earnings reports. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.6 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index was 0.8 percent higher. The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 0.6 percent. Among stocks in the news Wednesday: Amazon.com (Charts, Fortune 500), Boeing (Charts, Fortune 500), ConocoPhillips (Charts, Fortune 500), DaimlerChrysler (Charts), Corning (Charts, Fortune 500) and Colgate-Palmolive (Charts, Fortune 500). |
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