Stocks: Nasdaq pokes above 4000 again

U.S. stocks gained on Tuesday -- the Nasdaq composite popping above 4000 again -- with trading light before the Thanksgiving holiday later this week.

In morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.1%, while the Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq were both up about 0.2% each.

On Monday, the Dow rose 0.1% to 16,072.54. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% to 1,802.48. But the Nasdaq rose as high as 4,007.09, a level it hasn't seen since Sept. 7, 2000 during the dot-com bubble. The index ended up 0.1% at 3,994.57.

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"There's very little macro data coming out and there's little news to drive the market one way or the other," said Andrew Sullivan of Kim Eng Securities in Hong Kong.

In energy markets, benchmark crude for January delivery was up 46 cents at $94.55 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 75 cents to $94.09 on Monday.

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.7% to 15,515.24.

Contributing: Associated Press