Merrill Lynch earnings rise
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Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. Inc., the biggest  U.S. brokerage, on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose, helped  by rising investment banking revenue.
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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, helped  by a run of positive company earnings as well as Tuesday's  rally, which ended a four-day run of losses.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday as investors bet signs of strength in the economy meant companies will beat profit forecasts as the second-quarter earnings season kicks off.
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Stocks rallied on Monday, led by financial companies, after Merrill Lynch  took steps to shore up its balance sheet with plans to raise up to $6.2 billion and sell a lending unit.
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Stocks opened higher as investors grew encouraged following Oracleâs strong earnings, despite Bear Stearns first-ever quarterly loss.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc  said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings rose 2 percent, trouncing expectations as higher merger advisory fees and surprisingly strong debt trading results helped it sidestep the credit crunch that has hammered the rest of Wall Street.
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IBM reported a better-than-expected 24  percent rise in preliminary quarterly earnings on Monday on  strong sales in overseas markets, driving its shares up 6  percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  shored up its capital base by as much as $7.5 billion after selling a stake to Singapore's government and an asset manager, and unloading much of a lending business, as it wrestles with huge subprime mortgage losses.
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Morgan Stanley  on Wednesday  said quarterly earnings rose on strong trading and merger  activity, as the largest U.S. investment bank continued its  turnaround from a tumultuous 2005.
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Merrill Lynchâs announcement of a $6.2 billion investment set off a small rally in financial shares.
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Stocks rose on Monday, led by financial companies, after Merrill Lynch  took steps to shore up its balance sheet with plans to raise up to $6.2 billion and sell a lending unit.
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Wall Street was higher after a better-than-expected profit report at Research in Motion and on word that Merrill Lynch might have lined up a  cash infusion from a Singapore fund.
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Stock index futures rose, lifted by news of a General Electric deal to buy a Merrill Lynch lending unit.
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Computer server and software maker IBM said Monday its fourth-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose 24 percent from a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations by a wide margin.
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IBM  reported a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in preliminary quarterly earnings on Monday on strong sales in overseas markets, driving its shares up 6 percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
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Merrill Lynch assuaged concern of a looming credit crisis and the latest government report on the economy showed growth was accelerating.
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Wall Street was higher after a better-than-expected profit report at Research in Motion and on word that Merrill Lynch might have lined up a cash infusion from a Singapore fund.