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Big technology and communications stocks made solid gains and helped lift the broader market in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday.

The S&P 500 rose 0.6% as of 12:21 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 47points, or 0.1%, to 34,864 and the Nasdaq rose 1.6%.