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8B Daily News – Thursday, January 19, 2012 Furniture DEPOT 235 S Main St., Red Bluff 530 527-1657 www.thefurnituredepot.net HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY 9:00-6:00 SATURDAY 9:00-5:00 • SUNDAY 11:00-5:00 Save up to50%off retail NEW YORK (AP) — A surprisingly strong report on the housing market and the prospect of more cash for the International Mone- tary Fund to fight off a financial crisis powered stocks Wednesday to their highest close since last summer. Dow, S&P 500 close at their highest since July Wall Street ing from lower prices and mortgage rates. The Standard & Poor's 500 index closed above 1,300 for the first time since July 28, and the Dow Jones industrial average finished at its highest since July 25. That was just before the bit- ter fight in Washington over the federal debt limit. It was also the first time since Jan. 3, the first trading day of the year, that the S&P 500 moved more than 1 percent. The market has made a quiet ascent since then. The S&P is up 4 per- cent for the year, the Dow 3 percent. Smaller stocks had the strongest gains, a sign that investors are becoming more comfortable taking on risk. The Russell 2000 of small-company stocks rose 1.8 percent, more than the 1.1 percent gain in the S&P and the 0.8 percent gain in the Dow. The Nasdaq rose 1.5 percent. ''We think things are set- ting up to be better than last year,'' said Brad Sorensen, director of market research at Charles Schwab. ''The worst-case scenario is off the table.'' The National Associa- tion of Home Builders index, a measure of senti- ment among builders, rose to its highest level since June 2007 as sales jumped. Analysts said it could be a sign the housing market has bottomed out. The index is rising because builders are seeing a rise in people shopping for a home, not because they are seeing more sales, at least not yet. Those in a position to buy are benefit- Stocks of home con- struction companies jumped. PulteGroup Inc. rose 6 percent, Toll Broth- ers Inc. rose 5 percent, and KB Home rose 8 percent. In another encouraging sign, the Federal Reserve said manufacturing rose 0.9 percent from November to December, the biggest gain since December 2010. Christine Lagarde, man- aging director of the IMF, said the fund wanted to raise $500 billion more to lend to countries. The IMF has put up roughly a third of the rescue loans to debt- hobbled European coun- tries over the past two years. Investors are eager for signs that the world can contain Europe's debt prob- lem. Besides an already likely recession in Europe, a messy default by Greece or another country could lead to a financial crisis around the globe. In other trading, Gold- man Sachs stock added almost 7 percent after its quarterly profit beat Wall Street expectations. Net income still fell 58 percent in the last three months of 2011, a result of choppy financial markets. Some bank stocks fol- lowed Goldman higher. Morgan Stanley, another investment bank, rose 6.8 percent. Bank of America rose 4.9 percent, JPMorgan Chase 4.7 percent and Citi- group 2.9 percent. Other financial stocks sank after disappointing earnings reports. State Street Corp. plunged 6.6 percent, the largest fall in the S&P 500. PNC Finan- cial Services Group Inc. fell 2.6 percent, and Northern Trust Corp. slipped 2 per- cent. The Dow finished up 96.88 at 12,578.95. The S&P rose 14.37 to 1,308.04. The Nasdaq com- posite index, which has out- performed the other two founder Jerry Yang is leav- ing the struggling Internet pioneer. The departure clears the way for newly hired CEO Scott Thomp- son to take more radical action to shake up the com- pany. — Amphenol Corp., which makes fiber-optic cables, soared 11 percent. Its earnings beat analysts' expectations, and the com- pany said strong orders should push next year's earnings above Wall Street forecasts. this year, rose 41.63 points to 2,769.71. Among other stocks making large moves Wednesday: — Yahoo climbed 3 per- cent on news that co- — Linear Technology Corp., which makes cir- cuits, jumped 11 percent, most in the S&P 500. It expects quarterly revenue to rise 4 to 8 percent fol- lowing strong demand in December and January. It also raised its dividend by a penny to 25 cents a share. — Cash America Inter- national Inc., a payday lender and operator of pawnshops, sank 6 percent after cutting its earnings forecast. EBay reports higher fourth quarter earnings, revenue SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — EBay reported on Wednesday that net income grew sharply higher in the fourth quarter, helped by a gain from the sale of its remaining investment in Skype. Its results beat Wall Street's expectations, aided by strong holiday sales at its namesake website and growth at PayPal, its online payments business. 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