Dow Ends Day Up 72

Stocks are ending broadly higher on Wall Street, building on big gains a day earlier, as investors keep a close eye on the US presidential election, the AP reports. Safe-play sectors like utilities and phone companies rose more than the rest of the market Tuesday. PG&E rose 1.5% and Frontier Communications rose 1%. Hertz plunged 22.5% after its earnings came up far short of what analysts were looking for. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 72 points, or 0.4%, to 18,332. The Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 8 points, or 0.4%, to 2,139. The Nasdaq composite increased 27 points, or 0.5%, to 5,193. (More stock market stories.)