US stocks gain on solid earnings reports US stocks have finished up more than one per cent despite a two minute mini-crash due to a false AP news tweet, with good earnings results from DuPont, Travelers and Netflix. At the closing bell on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 152.29 (1.04 per cent) at 14,719.46. The broad-based S&P 500 added 16.28 (1.04 per cent) at 1578.78, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 35.78 (1.11 per cent) to 3269.33.