New signs of life in the U.S. manufacturing sector sent buyers back to the stock market Tuesday. Ford rose after reporting higher sales for March and Intuitive Surgical jumped after regulators approved the company's latest robotic surgery device.
KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,879 as of 11:20 a.m. Eastern. Eight of the ten sectors in the index rose, led by consumer discretionary stocks. The S&P 500 was slightly above its record close set on March 7. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 55 points, or 0.3 percent, to 16,513. The Nasdaq composite rose 49 points, or 1.2 percent, to 4,247.
AUTO SALES: Ford rose 47 cents, or 3 percent, after reporting a bump up in sales last month. Ford's U.S. sales chief John Felice says demand picked up in the middle of March, and the company's top-selling F-Series truck sales gained 5 percent.
ECONOMY WATCH: The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index rose to 53.7 in March, up from 53.2 in February, as the nation's factories continued to rev up following the severe winter storms earlier this year. Separately, the Commerce Department said construction spending rose by 0.1 percent in February, after falling by 0.2 percent in January. That number was in line with investors' expectations.
DOCTOR ROBOTO: Medical device maker Intuitive Surgical jumped $38.06, or 9 percent, to $476.00 after the Food and Drug Administration approved the newest version of the company's surgical robotic system. The robot is designed to do minimally-evasive surgeries that would otherwise require a doctor to open up a patient's body.
MORE LIFE IN BIOTECH: The biotechnology sector, which got hammered earlier this month, rose sharply for a second day. Gilead Sciences was up 3 percent and Amgen was up 2 percent. The S&P 500 Biotechnology index was up 2.5 percent.
OTHER MARKETS: Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.76 percent from 2.72 percent late Monday. The price of crude oil slipped 34 cents to $101.24 a barrel. Gold was little changed at $1,284 an ounce.
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