S&P 500 Approaches Three-Year High Amid Greece Bailout Optimism

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U.S. stocks advanced, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index near the highest level in about three years, amid optimism Greece will get a bailout.

Banks had the biggest gain in the S&P 500 among 24 groups, rallying 1.7 percent. H.J. Heinz Co., the biggest ketchup maker, and Campbell Soup Co., the largest soup maker, climbed at least