NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday is strength in large-cap tech shares, goal Continuing global crisis Cautious investors Kept Before the quarter's end.
The S & P 500 index Has Risen 4.2 Percent In The First Quarter as of Monday. Investors reluctant to risk gains Were With Japan's nuclear power Problems And The Civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa unresolved. Monday's trading volume Was The Lowest of the Year.
"The quarter ending IS With A Lot of Uncertainties out there, Resulting in messy intraday moves at The Same Time That Nothing Is really happening," Said Michael Shaoul, Chairman of the New York-based Asset Management Marketfield, Which Oversees $ 973 million.
"There's nothing about Obvious What Investors Need to do in this environment, and that's Why You're seeing Such low volume," he said."No one has Any Reason To recommit capital."
Home Depot Inc. (HD.N) Said It Would late Monday it buy back $ 1 trillion of Outstanding shares-through year accelerated program. Its stock rose 2.8 percent to $ 37.67 and Was The Dow's top gainer Percentage.
The Dow Jones industrial average (. DJI) Was up 26.4 points, or 0.21 percent, at 12,223.92. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (. SPX) WAS up 0.23 of a point, or 0.02 percent, at 1,310.42. The Nasdaq Composite Index (. IXIC) WAS up 10.08 points, or 0.37 percent, at 2,740.73.
The Nasdaq WAS helped by strength in large-cap tech shares.Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN payday loan lenders in states.O) rose 2.2 percent to $ 173.12 after it has Introduced Service Offering remote access to music.
Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) rose 1.6 percent to $ 17.40 after it plans to buy it Said newScale Inc. for undisclosed Amount to boost year icts cloud computing services.
On the downside, Apollo Group (APOL.O) Fell 7.2 percent to $ 39.30 after The New Education Company Said Enrollment Fell 45 percent in second quarter.
Lennar Corp. (LEN.N) Fell 2 percent to $ 19.36 after swinging to a first-quarter profit to a drop in revenue reporting.
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT.N) Will Urge the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject a case Brought on Behalf of female employed LIGHTWEIGHT Who Gave The Retail Women less pay and promotions Fewer In The Largest, class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit ever . Wal-Mart, a Dow component, Slipped 0.1 percent to $ 52.15.
On the Economic front, U.S.Single-family Home Prices Fell For the seventh straight month in January, According To The S & P / Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas ". However, The Drop Was Not As Much as expected.
After the market Opened, data showed U.S. consumer confidence Fell in March as expectations about jobs and Income Growth worsened, According to The Conference Board, a private research group.
(Reporting by Ryan Vlastelica; Editing by Jan Paschal)
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