INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
stock indexes rose on Tuesday as upbeat quarterly reports from a clutch of companies boosted earnings optimism and bank stocks rebounded
after Turkey's currency snapped its three-week slide.
Turkey's lira recovered after the country's central bank moved to ease pressure on the
currency, triggering a surge of as much as 7 percent to 6.4 per U.S
lenders - Citigroup, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs - rose between 0.2 percent and 0.7 percent.
"The Turkey currency
crisis isn't going to grow any bigger (and) the markets are good at pricing things like this," said Michael Antonelli, managing director,
institutional sales trading at Robert W
Baird in Milwaukee.
"The spate of earnings today has people focusing back on what matters and that is U.S
economic data and earnings reports."
Tapestry jumped 9.7 percent, the most on the SP index, after strong sales of its Kate Spade handbags
helped the company's full-year forecast top analysts' expectations.
Advance Auto Parts rose 7.5 percent after the company beat quarterly
profit estimates and announced a new share buyback program.
The second-quarter earnings season is tapering down
Of the 455 companies in the SP 500 that have reported so far, 79 percent have beaten analysts' estimates, according to Thomson Reuters
EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 46.60 points, or 0.19 percent, at 25,234.30, the SP 500 was up 8.22 points, or 0.29 percent, at
2,830.15 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 11.50 points, or 0.15 percent, at 7,831.20.
All 11 major SP sectors were trading higher.
Energy
shares gained 0.61 percent and was the top gainer among SP sectors as oil prices rose after Saudi Arabia cut production.
Technology sector
rose, led by 1.9 percent gain in shares of Nvidia after the chipmaker rolled out its newest generation of chip technology.
The markets
overlooked comment from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that his country will boycott electronic products from the United States, including
Apple's iPhone.
"Tech has been the theme of the entire bull market run, and in times of concern they tend to take a little bit more of the
front row seat," said Antonelli.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.29-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 2.08-to-1 ratio on the
Nasdaq.
The SP index recorded nine new 52-week highs and one new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 29 new highs and 24 new lows
