11.   Broad-market indexes advanced after a mostly weak start.

12.   Broader indexes also advanced.

13.   Broader market indexes also advanced, but struggled more than the Dow to stay in positive territory.

14.   Broad-market indexes advanced sharply too, with the technology-rich Nasdaq composite index jumping back into record territory.

15.   Broader indexes advanced.

16.   Broader market indexes advanced.

17.   It was the fourth straight session that all three major indexes advanced.

18.   It was the fourth consecutive session that all three major indexes advanced, but the buying intensified Tuesday on earnings updates from Lucent Technologies and chip maker Xilinx.

19.   On the stock market, the Nikkei index advanced ahead of a policy-setting meeting at the U.S. Federal Reserve later Tuesday.

20.   On the stock market, the Nikkei index advanced on growing expectations that new Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will carry out promised structural reforms to lift the torpid economy.