Shares of materials companies led Tuesday's gains, helped by a rise in commodity prices.
Permits rose 11.2 percent, it said, helping shares of materials companies rise nearly 2 percent.
A surge in price for industrial metals -- copper climbed nearly 2 percent -- helped lead a rally for shares of materials companies.
The stock market turned higher as gains in shares of materials and technology companies offset concerns about mounting debt around the world.
But a late-afternoon rise in the dollar helped spur a drop in commodity prices, pushing shares of materials and energy companies sharply down.
An early upturn, led by increases in shares of materials and energy companies like Chevron, was reinforced by an unexpected surge in home sales, feeding optimism over the health of the broader economy.
For example, New York University is one of many institutions using Blackboard, a Web site that facilitates the sharing of material and the exchange of ideas.
In its most recent budget proposal, the defense agency argues that its analysis can expose terrorist cells and other stateless groups by tracking their meetings, rehearsals and sharing of material and money transfers.
But what about a BBC that is operating on the web: a global, commercialised space that is minimally regulated, dominated by the economic models of the west coast of the US, large enough for anyone to publish their material on it, and formally organised so as to enable the circulation and sharing of material in unprecedented ways?
Movements like reengineering and CRM have had their share of material explaining the steps to follow to make such a program successful.
