a larger increase than the 0.2 expected. The U.S. dollar gained against the euro and the yen. Light sweet crude oil for January delivery fell 33 cents to $88.28 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures rose $6.30 to $1,404.30 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 47.98, or 0.4 percent, to 11,476.54. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1.13, or 0.1 percent, to 1,241.59. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 2.81, or 0.1 percent, to 2,627.72.
