US stocks closed sharply higher as the price of crude oil made another sudden turn, this time to the upside. The price of oil surge almost 4% Tuesday, reversing a slump from the day before. Chevron and Exxon Mobil each jumped 4%. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 282 points, or 1.8%, to 16,167. The Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 26 points, or 1.4%, to 1,903. The Nasdaq composite added 49 points, or 1.1%, to 4,567. (Oprah helped the stock market, too.)