Stocks had their best three-day run in 10 months Wednesday as Spain got the market off to a good start, promising tough austerity measures, and tech stocks rallied after some encouraging reports from Intel and IBM. Gold soared.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 148.65, or 1.4 percent, to close at 10,896.91, after a see-saw session Tuesday that left the blue-chip index down 0.3 percent.

(Source: CNBC)