Techs take Wall St. higherCisco results cheered by investors; Nasdaq up nearly 1% in first minutes.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Tech stocks surged at Wednesday's open, leading the overall market higher, after Cisco Systems' earnings topped forecasts. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index was up 0.9 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.2 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.3 percent. Among stocks in the news Wednesday: Toll Brothers (Charts, Fortune 500), McDonald's (Charts, Fortune 500), Sprint Nextel (Charts, Fortune 500), Cisco Systems (Charts, Fortune 500), Tyco Electronics (Charts) and Dell (Charts, Fortune 500). |
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