TECH STOCKS: Buying Before The Holidays

All of our indexes ended higher Monday as investors exhibited either a blasé attitude or determined acceptance about the raised national terrorism alert. Either way, trading ahead of Christmas was, as usual, thin.

Our InformationWeek 100 easily bested the other indexes. It rose 1.25%, or 3.81 points, to 307.98. The Nasdaq was the poorest performer, having spent more of the day underwater than above it. It rose 0.3%, or 4.78 points, to 1,955.8. The Dow rose 0.6%, or 59.78 points, to 10,338, and the S&P 500 rose 0.4%, or 4.27 points, to 1,092.94.

The Nasdaq-100 tracking stock rose 0.3%, or a dime, to $35.56, on volume of just 63 million shares.