The major US stock indices are closing solidly higher with the NASDAQ index leading the way with a gain of 1.51%. The S&P index is also up strongly at 0.94% and is closing just below the 4200 level that many traders have as the high of a range. The index is closing just below that level at 4198.06.
We final numbers for the day are showing:
- Dow industrial average up 115.12 points or 0.34% at 33535.90
- S&P index up 39.28 points or 0.94% at 4198.06
- NASDAQ index up 188.26 points or 1.51% at 12688.83
- Russell 2000 rose 10.35 points or 0.58% at 174.85
The run into the major AI stocks continued:
- Nvidia soared $14.99 or 4.97% to $316.77
- Alphabet increased $2.01 or 1.66% to $122.85
- Microsoft was up $4.56 or 1.45% to $318.56
Other winners today included:
- Intel, 2.77%
- Netflix, +9.22%
- Snowflake +5.9%
- AMD +4.03%
- Uber, +3.74%
- Intuit, +3.66%
- Crowdstrike, +3.37%
Dow top 5 winners today include:
Dow top 5 gainers today
The biggest losers in the Dow:
- Procter & Gamble -1.66%.
- UnitedHealth fell -1.16%
- Merck-0.66%
- Coca-Cola -0.55%
- Amgen -0.35%