US stocks close higher. Another record for the Dow. Nasdaq is the best performing index
The major US stock indices are closing higher on the day led by the Nasdaq.
The Dow closed about 53K for the first time ever with Boeing (+3.55%), IBM (+3.45%) and Goldman Sachs (+3.36%), the biggest gainers.
Looking at the major indices:
- Dow industrial average rose 0.29% to 53,061.30
- S&P index rose 54.17 points or 0.72% to 7537.42
- NASDAQ index rose 288.49 points or 1.12% to 26121.16
The small cap Russell 2000 rose 13.43.30.45 percent to 3009.54
Some of the winners today included:
- Tesla (TSLA): +6.69%
- AMD (AMD): +6.61%
- Seagate Technology (STX): +5.86%
- Qualcomm (QCOM): +5.80%
- CrowdStrike (CRWV): +5.77%
- PACCAR (PCAR): +5.36%
- Axon Enterprise (AXON): +4.24%
- Fortinet (FTNT): +3.90%
- ON Semiconductor (ON): +3.80%
- First Solar (FSLR): +3.78%
- Broadcom (AVGO): +3.73%
- Texas Instruments (TXN): +3.56%
- GE Vernova (GEV): +3.50%
In the losing column, some of the biggest lower were led by the following
- O’Reilly Automotive (ORLY): -6.66%
- Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG): -3.98%
- Bilibili (BILI): -3.54%
- Lululemon Athletica (LULU): -2.36%
- Fair Isaac (FICO): -2.17%
- Netflix (NFLX): -2.10%
- Starbucks (SBUX): -2.07%
- Amgen (AMGN): -2.06%
- Xcel Energy (XEL): -1.94%
- Datadog (DDOG): -1.92%
- Booking Holdings (BKNG): -1.91%
This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.