Better than expected results from Texas Instruments, Novellus and General Motors sent stocks soaring on Tuesday.
The ISDEX http://www.wsrn.com/apps/ISDEX/ gained 5 to 150, and the Nasdaq soared 63 to 1816. The S&P 500 surged 25 to 1128, and the Dow bolted 207 to 10,301. Volume rose to 1.36 billion shares on the NYSE, and 1.77 billion on the Nasdaq. Advancers led 22 to 9 on the NYSE, and 25 to 10 on the Nasdaq.
After the close, Intelmatched estimates and said it sees no broad economic recovery, but the stock rose 5% after hours anyway. Veritasplunged on a warning, weighing on the storage sector. Terdyne, RF Micro, Motorola, WebEx, Internet Security, Advent, i2and Commerce Onebeat estimates. Vitesse, RealNetworksand Kanamatched estimates.
During the day, Texas Instrumentsand Novellusgained 5-6% after beating estimates and raising guidance.
Unisysgained 9% after topping estimates, but Handspringplunged 19% after missing estimates.
Paypalrose on reports of a potential buyout by eBay, but finished well off its highs.
The battered wireless sector surged on better than expected results from Sprint PCS, with Nextelthe biggest gainer.
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Breakouts today in the S&P (first chart) and Nasdaq (second chart), and the Dow (third chart) won’t need much upside at all tomorrow to join them. Resistance on the S&P is 1132-1135 and 1147-1152, and 1120 is now critical support. On the Nasdaq, resistance is 1860 and 1935, and 1800 is critical support. The Dow faces resistance at 10,400 and 10,500, and has support at 10,230.
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