AlQa'dah 21, 1432, Oct 19, 2011, SPA - U.S. stocks finished higher on Tuesday, with all three major indexes rising over 1 percent, following a report suggesting that Europe's aid fund may get a big increase. In world markets, European stocks ended mixed, as both the FTSE 100 in Britain and the CAC 40 in France fell 0.6 percent, while the DAX in Germany rose 0.1 percent. Asian markets ended lower, with the declines led by Hang Seng in Hong Kong falling 4.2 percent. The U.S. dollar fell versus the euro and versus the yen. Light sweet crude oil for November delivery rose $1.96 to $88.34 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures fell $23.80 to $1,652.80 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 180.05, or 1.6 percent, to 11,577.05. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 24.52, or 2.0 percent, to 1,225.38. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 42.51, or 1.6 percent, to 2,657.43.
