NEW YORK (AP) - Investors were able to put aside the ongoing political turmoil in Ukraine on Monday to focus on a bit of good news on the U.S. economy.
Stocks ended sharply higher, helped by a report that showed factory output rebounded last month.
The Dow Jones industrial average added 181.55 points, or 1.1 percent, to 16,247.22. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 17.70 points, or 1 percent, to 1,858.83 and the Nasdaq composite rose 34.55 points, or 0.8 percent, to 4,279.95.
The market's gains were broad. All 30 members of the Dow and all 10 industry groups of the S&P 500 rose.
Technology stocks were among the biggest gainers, led by Yahoo, which rose 4 percent. Yahoo owns a quarter of the Chinese e-commerce website AliBaba, which announced plans to go public in the U.S. While relatively unknown in the U.S., AliBaba is one of the world's most-trafficked websites in the world's second-largest economy. Yahoo rose $1.51 to $39.11.
Other tech stocks also rose, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon.
Monday's advance comes after stocks spent much of last week in retreat.
The major indexes fell roughly 2 percent, their worst week since January, on concerns that the tensions between Ukraine and Russia could boil over. Those tensions are no closer to being resolved, but so far armed conflict does not appear to be in the cards.