The Dow Jones industrial average rose 50.55 points, or 0.43 per cent, to end at 11,837.93. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index added 1.78 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 1,295.02. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 10.55 points, or 0.38 per cent, at 2,765.85. Earlier, the Dow traded as high intraday as 11,858.78, a fresh 52-week high. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also climbed intraday and closed just slightly below their fresh 52-week highs. The financial SPDR exchange-traded fund was off 0.5 per cent and the KBW bank index dropped 1.2 per cent after recent gains. Stronger-than-expected results from JPMorgan Chase & Co last Friday buoyed optimism about bank stocks, which had rallied in recent weeks. Bank of America Corp was down 1.6 per cent at $15.00. The bank is set to report results later this week. Volume was fair with about 8.5 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, slightly above last year's estimated daily average of 8.47 billion.Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by 1,626 to 1,374, while on the Nasdaq, decliners slightly beat advancers by 1,369 to 1,278. (Reuters)