...more stock and raise its dividend helped pull major stock indexes out of a morning slump Tuesday.IBM and other technology stocks led the Standard & Poor's 500 index up. The broad-market measure ended April with a 1.8 percent gain, the...

...percent each. IBM, which rose $4.84 to $199.15, accounted for a third of the Dow's increase.Information technology stocks rose the most of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 on Monday, up 1.6 percent. It's the only group that...

...the rally was extraordinarily broad. For every stock that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, roughly 10 rose. Technology stocks rose the most. U.S. government bond prices fell sharply as investors pulled money out of safe-harbor investments...

...equipment, and Travelers Companies, the insurance provider.Some have been pushing for the Dow to add red-hot technology stocks such as Google or Apple. Blitzer told CNBC the committee had "looked seriously at half a dozen stocks," but didn't...

...composite index climbed 33.33 points to 2,892.42. The gains turned the Nasdaq positive for the week.Information technology stocks had the strongest gains of the 10 industry groups tracked by the S&P 500 index, followed by health care stocks...

...close to the giddy days of the dot-com boom, when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks today are the cheapest in more than nine years.However, the venture capitalists who bankroll high-tech startups...

...filing for unemployment benefits fell below 400,000 for the first time since April.When the opening bell rang, technology stocks led the market higher. Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of computer equipment and a tech bellwether...

...percent in three weeks, and the broader market has done even better.But the Nasdaq composite ? a collection of technology stocks whose dot-com heyday was more than a decade ago ? has left them both in the dust.That's no surprise when you...

...the 1990s.The Nasdaq composite index, made up of technology stocks, has had an even more remarkable run ? up 19 percent...at Barclays Capital.Knapp says he's bullish on technology stocks but the rest of the market has "overshot the fundamentals...

...average 37 percent, nearly twice as much as value stocks. Growth's notable performance was largely fueled by technology stocks, the biggest part of the growth category. Experts say those companies will continue to prosper as customers ramp...