Stocks Jump as Relieved Investors Buy Banks, Insurers, Tech<br />There was also relief among investors that a national holiday passed in North Korea without that country escalating tensions with the U. S.<br />KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 20 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,482 as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.<br />Travel companies and insurers are also rising and home-improvement companies like Lowe’s and Home Depot, which rallied last week, fell.<br />Rising tensions between the U. S. and North Korea have weighed on stocks in recent weeks and raised the prices of gold and bonds<br />NEW YORK — US stocks are jumping Monday, following global markets higher, after<br />Hurricane Irma weakened without causing as much damage as many had feared.<br />STORMY WEATHER: Irma hit the U. S. as a major Category 4 hurricane Sunday and is still battering Florida and Georgia.
