Byline: AMY BALDWIN Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Buyers were back on Wall Street for a second straight day Tuesday, bidding stocks higher on hopes the market has bottomed and the economy is turning around.
Investors' optimism allowed them to focus most of their buying on riskier tech stocks and the more economically sensitive blue chips such as consumer cyclicals.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 28.92 to close at 10,591.22.
Broader market indicators moved even higher. The Nasdaq composite index advanced 61.51 to 2,204.43, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index moved up 12.39 to 1,253.80.
Stocks continued to rise despite bleak …
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