The best were gold-oriented funds, which gained more than 35percentt, on average, according to Lipper Inc., the fund research company.
The strength of the housebuilders lifted the FTSE 100, which gained more than 50 points to 6,330.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which gained more authority to punish corporate wrongdoing in a government crackdown on fraud four years earlier, is going too far, according to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The rally in the Dow Jones industrials, which gained more than 200 points, pushed the index out of a bear market.
Both men are senior members of the African National Congress, which gained more than 65percentt of the vote in the presidential election in 1999.
Shelley Erickson's petitions, which gained more than 2,300 signatures in 2015, encouraged state legislators to introduce and enact new legislation that lifted various restrictions on home bakers.
The case is a result of a population boom in Texas, which gained more than four million people in the last decade, about 65 percent of them Hispanic.
That imbalance can be traced, first of all, to the performance of the American stock market, which gained more than 20percentt in each of the last three years.
"We have not changed the way we do things for the 26 years that we've operated," said O. Mason Hawkins, a co-manager of the $3.2 billion Longleaf Partners fund, which gained more than 8percentt in the quarter.
Most electron accelerators use powerful radio-frequency waves to carry electric fields that push a beam of injected electrons, which gain more and more energy as they move inside a high-vacuum pipe.
