Bloomberg cited a 1.8 percent climb in the S&P 500’s technology area as a driver of stock gains before many of the sector’s largest companies report quarterly earnings.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is scheduled to report its financial results Monday and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will issue their reports later this week, according to Bloomberg.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.17 percent to 18, 034.93, the S&P 500 composite index rose 0.92 percent to 2, 100.40 and the NASDAQ composite index gained 1.27 percent to 4, 994.60.
Top Percentage Gainers
 Company |  Stock Price |  $ Change |  % Change |
 SAIC |   51.68 |   1.17 |   2.32% |
 Intelsat |   12.11 |   0.26 |   2.19% |
  Boeing |   152.67 |   3.07 |   2.05% |
 Leidos Holdings |   41.65 |   0.72 |   1.76% |
 Healthnet |   57.42 |   0.99 |   1.75% |
Market Summary
 Advancing Issues |  24 (80.00%) |
 Declining Issues |   6 (20.00%) |
 Unchanged Issues |   0 |
Executive Mosaic‘s GovCon Index is a composite index that tracks 30 of the largest publicly-traded Government Contracting (GovCon) firms.