☰

Empresas y finanzas

Market rises on energy, Home Depot


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow industrials turned positive on Monday as energy shares rose in sync with higher oil prices, and the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 indexes climbed as investors snapped up shares beaten down in the recent sell-off.

    Exxon Mobil Corp was the Dow's top boost ahead of Home Depot Inc , which rose more than 3 percent after Morgan Stanley upgraded it to "overweight" from "equal-weight".

    The Dow Jones industrial average was up 7.33 points, or 0.07 percent, at 10,019.56. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 3.87 points, or 0.36 percent, at 1,070.06. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 7.52 points, or 0.35 percent, at 2,148.64.

    A decline in the U.S. dollar against a basket of major currencies underpinned the run-up in oil prices, with U.S. front-month crude up 1.1 percent at $71.96 a barrel. The U.S. dollar index was off 0.4 percent.

    (Reporting by Ellis Mnyandu; Editing by Padraic Cassidy)