By Chuck Mikolajczak
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced on Monday as each of Wall Street's main indexes touched a record intraday level after U.S. senators struck a deal to end the federal government shutdown.
U.S. senators voted to move forward on legislation that would reopen the federal government until Feb. 8. Funding legislation cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate and was expected to pass a full Senate vote promptly, allowing government to re-open.
"The only way politics affects what the market does is if they end of having a negative impact on the economy and corporate earnings and so far that hasn't been the case," said Michael Arone, Chief Investment Strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.
"The market has been more than willing to ride the tailwind of better global growth and higher corporate earnings, not only in the U.S. but globally."
Earnings growth of 12.4 percent is expected for the quarter, according to Thomson Reuters data. Of the 55 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings through Monday morning, 80 percent have topped expectations, well above the 72 percent beat rate for the past four quarters.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average <.DJI> rose 65.67 points, or 0.25 percent, to 26,137.39, the S&P 500 <.SPX> gained 13.41 points, or 0.48 percent, to 2,823.71 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> added 48.93 points, or 0.67 percent, to 7,385.31.
Halliburton Co
The Nasdaq biotech index <.NBI> rose 2.83 percent and was on pace for its best day since June 21 after a flurry of merger activity in the sector with French drugmaker Sanofi
Shares in U.S. haemophilia specialist Bioverativ
Juno Therapeutics
In other M&A news, AIG
Industrial stocks were one of the few laggards, as woes continued for General Electric
Shares of Netflix Inc
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.38-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.10-to-1 ratio favoured advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 107 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 181 new highs and 14 new lows.
(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
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