U.S. stocks rose with banks and financial stocks as among the drivers of Wednesday’s trading activity and investors also cheered news that Greece and its creditors could be near a deal on a bailout, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.33Â percent to 18, 000.40, the S&P 500 composite index climbed 1.20 percent to 2, 105.20Â and the NASDAQ composite index gained 1.25Â percent to 5, 076.69.
Top Percentage Gainers
 Company |  $ Stock Price |  $ Change |  % Change |
  Serco Group |   2.103 |   0.173 |   8.964% |
 Booz Allen Hamilton |   25.74 |   0.97 |   3.92% |
  Textron |   46.06 |   1.53 |   3.44% |
  Navistar |   25.48 |   0.67 |   2.70% |
 CGI Group |   42.93 |   1.06 |   2.53% |
Market Summary
 Advancing Issues |   28 (93.33%) |
 Declining Issues |    2  (6.66%) |
 Unchanged Issues |    0 |
Executive Mosaic‘s GovCon Index is a composite index that tracks 30 of the largest publicly-traded Government Contracting (GovCon) firms.