U.S. stocks rallied at the start of trade Tuesday as optimism over efforts to rescue the economy grew amid reports that lawmakers were getting closer to a deal on a large coronavirus fiscal stimulus package. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.84% rose 1,227 points, or 6.6%, at 19,832, the S&P 500 index SPX, -1.15% advanced 6.1% at 2,373, while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.13% climbed 6.8% at 7,256, early Tuesday. U.S. lawmakers inched toward an agreement on a roughly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, according to a report by the Washington Post, helping to reignite the buying appetite on Wall Street for the moment, and signs of the viral outbreak leveling out elsewhere in the world also injected some optimism into markets.