Monday, July 16, 2007

U.S. Stocks Rise on Manufacturing Expansion; United Technologies Advances

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks gained as speculation
Verizon Communications Inc. may be bought and a better-than-
expected manufacturing report carried benchmark indexes to
records for a third day.

Verizon, the second-biggest U.S. phone company, led the
Dow Jones Industrial Average higher after the Financial Times
said Vodafone Group Plc may pursue a takeover even as Vodafone
denied the report. Industrial shares, paced by United
Technologies Corp., climbed to an all-time high after the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York's general economic index rose
to its highest since June 2006.


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