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Empresas y finanzas

Wall St. rallies on housing data and techs


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks surged on Tuesday as an unexpected leap in housing starts pushed Home Depot and other retailers higher while bullish comments from a broker on Cisco Systems buoyed technology shares.

    The KBW bank index jumped 6.1 percent.

    Alcoa dropped after slashing its dividend and spending.

    The Dow Jones industrial average gained 178.73 points, or 2.48 percent, to end unofficially at 7,395.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index jumped 24.23 points, or 3.21 percent, to 778.12. The Nasdaq Composite Index surged 58.09 points, or 4.14 percent, to 1,462.11.

    (Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Jan Paschal)