Noon Update...

The stock market continues to trade near its session high as only a handful of names are weak with losses. In turn, stocks remain on track for their best single-session percentage gain in two weeks. Despite such an accomplishment, the stock market is up only slightly more than 0.5% week-to-date and down almost 8% month-to-date. Trading volume is strong this session. Advancing volume currently outnumbers declining volume by more than 10-to-1 on the Big Board.

DJ30 +213.19
NASDAQ +58.71
SP500 +25.35