Money | stock market Stocks Keep Climbing, Up 70 By Kevin Spak Posted Mar 16, 2009 8:41 AM CDT Copied Specialist Jeffrey Sheldon, right, of the Kellogg Group, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, March 12, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams) Stocks kept up their steady climb at the open, building on last week’s 9% rally. The Dow was up 70 points in early trading, while the S&P added 1.2% and the Nasdaq a more modest 0.5%. Those gains followed nice rallies overseas, with the Nikkei up 1.8% and FTSE up 2%, driven by Barclay’s declaration that it was performing strongly; Barclays jumped 14%. Read These Next Is India, under hefty tariffs, turning away from the US? A game of doorbell ditch turns fatal for 11-year-old. Bill Belichick's first big UNC game didn't go well. At Colorado airport: collision, flames, death. Report an error