International Paper, for example, was the third-strongest Dow stock during the quarter, rising 8.4 percent, while Alcoa was right behind with a gain of 7.7 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average took back nearly a quarter of Monday's 70-point loss, rising 15.66, to 2,913.69, after soaring 25 points at the opening.

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These funds as a group rose by 17.67 percent in the year and 6.65 percent in the quarter, rising in December alone, on average, by 7.33 percent.

Operating margins improved for the seventh consecutive quarter, rising to 15.1 percent from 8.8 percent in the year-ago period.

That figure actually came in at 12.4 percent, with pro forma Ebitda in the quarter rising to $1.36 billion from $1.21 billion in the period a year earlier.

Farm subsidies for the new entrants will start at just a quarter of the western levels, rising to parity only by 2013.

Natural-resources funds, helped by higher oil prices, had a good quarter, rising 11.6 percent, according to Morningstar.

Energy Net Doubles Operating earnings from the company's energy segment, including Marathon Oil, more than doubled in the quarter, rising to $338 million, from $166 million.

But Seagram, the Montreal-based maker of liquors, wines and juices, said overall sales were flat in the quarter, rising only 2 percent, to $1.448 billion.