AT&T, eBay Earnings Jumpstart Stocks

Better-than-expected earnings from

eBay

(EBAY) - Get Report

and

AT&T

(T) - Get Report

helped in part lift major market averages early on.

AT&T, a Dow component, was up 1 7/16 to 54 3/8.

The

Dow Jones Industrial Average

was up 79 to 10,798.

The

S&P 500

was up 9 to 1369. The

Nasdaq Composite Index

was up 20 to 2672. The

Russell 2000

was up 2 to 437.

TheStreet.com Internet Sector

index was up 8 to 722.

The 30-year Treasury bond was up 4/32 to 95 12/32, yielding 5.57%.

Most Up at Open -- NYSE

Vodafone (VOD) - Get Report, up 3 3/16 to 187 13/16

.

Most Up at Open -- Nasdaq

eBay (EBAY) - Get Report, up 24 7/8 to 233 7/8

: After the close, the company posted first-quarter earnings of 5 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of the 10-analyst

First Call

forecast and above the year-ago penny.

Most Down at Open -- NYSE

Campbell Soup (CPB) - Get Report, down 1 7/16 to 41 1/2

:

Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette

downgraded Campbell Soup to market perform from buy.

Most Down at Open -- Nasdaq

DoubleClick (DCLK) , down 22 5/8 to 149

: The company reported an operating loss of 13 cents a share, in line with the First Call 10-analyst estimate but narrower than the year-ago loss of 21 cents.