By early afternoon, Motorola shares climbed about 42 cents, or 5.6 percent, to $7.92.
Hourly wages for production and non-supervisory workers climbed about 3 cents an hour, to $16.03, and have climbed about 2.6percentt over the past year.
Schlumberger, which provides services to oil companies, rose more than 8.8 percent, while Baker Hughes climbed about 10.5 percent.
Even using government data for big cities, rice was up 38 percent, wheat prices rose 35 percent and beef and fresh milk prices each climbed about 44 percent.
According to government data for big cities, rice was up 38 percent, wheat prices rose 35 percent and beef and fresh milk prices each climbed about 44 percent.
That's not necessarily a bad thing -- after all, truck prices have climbed about twice as fast as car prices over the years.
Since the beginning of the year, OKE has climbed about 36%, from $28 per share to a recent $38.
After sinking sharply through most of the afternoon, the index climbed about 50 points during the last hour of trading to end the day in positive territory.
GE stock closed at $22.58, up about 0.6%, then climbed about 4% in after-hours trading.
The market got a boost from a pickup in the price of oil, which climbed about 4% after an early slide.
For the top 0.1percentt, incomes climbed about 94percentt.
