U.S. stocks surged Tuesday as a rally in financial and technology shares underpinned a sharp, broad-based stock-market advance. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.26% added 203 points, or 1.2%, to 17,696. Nearly all of the 30 of the blue-chip’s components traded higher, led by more than 2% gains in Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +3.14% and Intel Corp. INTC, +2.71% and a strong showing from financial firms American Express Co. AXP, +2.14% Visa Inc. V, +2.84% J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, +1.65% and Goldman Sachs Group GS, +1.42% The S&P 500 index SPX, +1.37% jumped 27 points, or 1.3%, to 2,075 as all 10 of its main ... (full story)