quarter profits rose 18 percent, though its U.S. sales were slightly lower, as shares of the cereal maker dropped 1.8 percent. The U.S. dollar rose versus the euro but fell versus the yen. Light sweet crude oil for May delivery rose 78 cents to $105.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures rose $10.40 to $1,438.00 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 67.39, or 0.6 percent, to 12,086.02, led by a 3 percent jump in shares of Alcoa. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 3.77, or 0.3 percent, to 1,297.54. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 14.43, or 0.5 percent, to 2,698.30.
