Market climbs as Merrill deal lifts financials
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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 stocks rose on Monday after a spate of deal-making and a capital injection at Merrill Lynch helped spur a pre-Christmas rally on Wall Street.
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Shares rose on Monday after an investment deal raised hopes that wealthy foreign investors would come to the rescue of Americaâs ailing investment firms.
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Stocks rose on Thursday after reassuring results from Oracle Corp  and a higher earnings outlook from Qualcomm Inc  helped to lift the technology sector.
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Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.  said on Tuesday second-quarter net earnings surged 31 percent on strong investment banking activity as well as trading credit and interest rate products.
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Stocks jumped on Tuesday, pushing the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite indexes more than 1 percent higher, as Wall Street joined Asian and European markets in a rebound after the recent global sell-off.
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Stocks ended higher on Monday, helped by strong results from IBM  that eased worries about the economy and sparked a rebound after last week's losses.
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Stocks extended gains in mid-afternoon trade on Tuesday, lifting the S&P 500 index more than 1 percent, after reassuring data on the economy and amid optimism about the outlook for technology spending.
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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, with   the Nasdaq rallying more than 1 percent, after solid earnings   reports from software maker Oracle Corp. ORCL.O and   investment bank Morgan Stanley. MS.N
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Stocks rebounded on Monday from last week's losses after IBM reported higher-than-expected preliminary financial results, lifting the technology sector.
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European stock markets rose in early deals, boosted by a strong rally on Wall Street overnight, dealers said.
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Stocks rose on Monday, after Merrill Lynch  said it was getting a big foreign investment and with investors eyeing retailers as the busy holiday shopping season draws to a close.
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Stocks rose on Friday after a higher profit forecast by Microsoft Corp.  lifted all three major indexes, and an upbeat outlook by lender Countrywide Financial Corp.  stemmed fears of financial-sector losses.
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U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday as a   string of corporate deals, plus a robust initial public   offering for credit-card company MasterCard Inc.MA.N, lifted   investor sentiment.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday after  software maker PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O accepted rival Oracle  Corp.'s ORCL.O buyout offer and a government report showed  better-than-expected retail sales in November, signaling an  uptick in consumer spending.
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Stocks rose on Wednesday after U.S.   second-quarter growth was revised upward, suggesting some   strength in the economy, and a dip in oil prices soothed   concerns about inflation.
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European equity markets opened higher on Wednesday, lifted by rallying financial stocks and following gains in the US and Asia.