a company focused on natural gas transportation, processing, and storage-jumped 8 percent after the company said it would increase its dividend and split into two entities. The U.S. dollar fell versus the euro and the yen. Light sweet crude oil for March delivery rose $1.12 to $86.11 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures rose $8.90 to $1,384 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 29.97, or 0.2 percent, to 12,318.14, with Intel leading the advances, while American Express posted the biggest loses. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 4.11, or 0.3 percent, to 1,340.43, with Sears Holding among the biggest gainers on the index. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 6.02, or 0.2 percent, to 2,831.58.
