Strong quarterly earnings from technology companies, coupled with the European Central Bank looking to buy corporate bonds as an option, boosted the Standard & Poor’s 500 by 1.96 percent and helped the Nasdaq index achieve gains of more than 2 percent, Sam Forgione reported for Reuters.
Top Percentage Gainers
Company | Stock Price | % Change |
AECOM Technology | 31.55 | 3.78% |
CSC | 58.75 | 3.73% |
Intelsat | 17.77 | 3.43% |
Healthnet | 47.64 | 3.27% |
Honeywell | 92.92 | 3.24% |
Market Summary
Advancing Issues | 29Â (96.67%) |
Declining Issues | 1Â (3.34%) |
Unchanged Issues | 0 |
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index is a composite index that tracks 30 of the largest publicly-traded Government Contracting (GovCon) Companies.