market report, gaining $1.29 to settle at $81.50 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold for May delivery rose $2.10 to $1,135.20 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 122.06, or 1.2 percent, to 10,556.20. Twenty-eight of the index's 30 components gained, led by Exxon Mobil, Chevron, J.P. Morgan Chase, American Express, Boeing, Caterpillar, and 3M. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 15.72, or 1.4 percent, to 1,138.69. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 34.04, or 1.5 percent, to 2.326.35, its highest point since September 3, 2008. Shares of Apple rose 4 percent after the company said it would release its highly anticipated iPad tablet computer on April 3. Broadband-services company RCN has agreed to be taken private by ABRY Partners, and its shares rose 23 percent in active trading. Shares of InterMune jumped 58 percent in active trading on bets that pirfenidone, the company's treatment for lung scarring, could win U.S. regulatory approval. The New York Stock Exchange composite index rose 118.00 to 7,291.07. The American Stock Exchange composite index rose 15.93 to 1,918.65. And the Russell 2000 index rose 13.55 to 666.02.
