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 The market's advance, which also broke the S&P 500's three-day
slide, came after heavy losses tied to concerns about the withdrawal
of U.S. monetary stimulus as well as worries about emerging markets,
including a slowdown in China's growth and political turmoil from
Turkey to Thailand.
Last week, the S&P 500 marked its worst percentage loss since June
2012.
After the close, U.S. stock index futures rallied on the news that
Turkey's central bank had sharply raised its interest rates. S&P 500
e-mini futures shot up 20 points on volume of 1.7 million contracts.
"We had India's central bank increase rates, and now we see Turkey,
both bigger moves from what anyone was anticipating. Emerging
markets' central banks coming in and increasing rates in succession
should assuage people's fears of an emerging market crisis," said
Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds
Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
Wednesday will bring the conclusion of the Fed's two-day policy
meeting, with investors anxious to hear whether the Fed will cut
another $10 billion from its monthly bond-buying program. In
December, the central bank announced plans to scale back its
stimulus.
Bucking Tuesday's trend, the stock of Apple Inc <AAPL.O> dropped 8
percent to close at $506.50 — its worst slide in a year — a day
after holiday iPhone sales missed expectations. Apple's slide
limited the gains of the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.
Shares of Pfizer Inc <PFE.N> shot up 2.6 percent to close at $30.42,
boosting both the Dow and S&P 500 after the biggest U.S. drugmaker
reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit.
"Tomorrow... People are going to be much more interested in what
direction the U.S. Fed takes us," said Bryant Evans, portfolio
manager at Cozad Asset Management, in Champaign, Illinois.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 90.68 points or 0.57
percent, to end at 15,928.56. The S&P 500 <.SPX> gained 10.94 points
or 0.61 percent, to finish at 1,792.50. The Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC>
added 14.35 points or 0.35 percent, to close at 4,097.96.
The S&P 500 remains below its 50-day moving average, after closing
below it on Friday for the first time since October 9.
The day's move was mainly a "reflex rally," said Fred Dickson, chief
market strategist at D.A. Davidson & Co. in Lake Oswego, Oregon. "It
just technically looked deeply oversold."
A bright spot in the day's economic data was a report showing U.S.
consumer confidence rose in January. Consumers grew more optimistic
about both business conditions and the job market, according to the
Conference Board.
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But orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods unexpectedly
fell 4.3 percent in December, and a gauge of planned business
spending on capital goods also slid, which could cast a shadow on an
otherwise bright economic outlook.
Apple shares fell to their lowest since October. The tech
bellwether's iPhone sales in the holiday shopping season missed
lofty expectations and the company forecast weak revenue for the
current quarter in its quarterly results.
After the bell, shares of audio chipmaker Cirrus Logic Inc <CRUS.O>,
an Apple supplier, fell 4.6 percent to $17.87 as it forecast
fourth-quarter revenue far below Wall Street's estimates. In the
regular session, Cirrus shares declined 4.5 percent to end at
$18.74.
During the regular session, activist investor Carl Icahn said he
bought another half-billion dollars' worth of Apple stock, his third
investment in the iPhone and iPad maker in less than a week. The
purchase increases his stake to more than $4 billion.
Shares of D.R. Horton <DHI.N> surged 9.8 percent to $23 after the
largest U.S. homebuilder reported a 4 percent rise in quarterly
orders.
In another snapshot of the economy, U.S. single-family home prices
in November rose slightly more than expected from the previous
month, while the increase from a year ago was the biggest in almost
eight years, a closely watched survey showed.
In other moves after the bell, shares of Yahoo <YHOO.O> fell 3.9
percent to $36.75 after the company's results showed revenue
declined for the fourth consecutive quarter.
Shares of AT&T <T.N> declined 1.7 percent to $33.12 after the
company reported slower wireless subscriber growth in the latest
quarter than Wall Street had estimated.
Volume was slightly below average for the month. About 6.6 billion
shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, compared with the average of
6.9 billion so far this month, according to data from BATS Global
Markets.
Advancers outnumbered decliners on the New York Stock Exchange by
about 3 to 1. On the Nasdaq, two stocks rose for every one that
fell.
(Additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos;
editing by Nick Zieminski and Jan Paschal)
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