Baku – APA-Economics. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 0.6% to 17,131.97, USA TODAY reported.
The Standard & Poor's 500 gained 0.8% and finished at 1998.98, after earlier trading above the 2000 mark. The Nasdaq composite index rose 0.8% to 4552.76.
European benchmarks were lower with Britain's FTSE dropping 0.2% to 6792.24 as investors await Scotland's vote on independence from the U.K. Thursday. Germany's DAX dropped 0.3%to 9632.93 and France's CAC-40 slipped 0.4% to 4409.15.