Technology companies and banks helped drive stocks higher on Wall Street Tuesday, as the market bounced back from an early slide to more than make up its losses from the day before. The S&P 500 rose 0.8 percent after having been down 0.4 percent. More than three fourths of the stocks in the benchmark index notched gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1 percent and the Nasdaq composite gained 1.3 percent. Bond yields rose, lifting the 10-year Treasury yield to the highest level since before the pandemic began. The indexes were all down in early trading but turned solidly higher around midmorning. That turnaround gained momentum after the S&P 500 crossed above 4,500 points, an important “resistance level,” something traders watch for when trying to guess the direction that a stock or index will move next. “Maybe today was more of a technical move as the market broke above …
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