Dow Ends Day Up 145

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Wednesday, as energy companies rose with the price of oil, while chemicals and mining company shares also gained, the AP reports. Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped nearly 7% and Computer Sciences Corporation surged 42% after HP Enterprise said it will sell its business service unit to CSC for $8.5 billion. Chesapeake Energy gained over 7% as oil prices continued to climb. Monsanto also rose after Bayer said it's committed to completing its acquisition of the company. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 145 points, or 0.8%, to 17,852. The Standard and Poor's 500 index rose 14 points, or 0.7%, to 2,090. The Nasdaq composite climbed 34 points, or 0.7%, to 4,895. (More Dow Jones stories.)