New York Stocks End: Investors take risk again – Apple at record high | news

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The lively recovery in share prices on Wall Street from the beginning of the week continued on Tuesday. Concerns about the economic consequences of the spread of the new Corona variant Omikron continued to decline. The leading index Dow Jones Industrial (Dow Jones 30 Industrial) rose 1.40 percent to 35,719.43 points. Apple’s shares hit another record high.

The prices on the technology-heavy Nasdaq exchange went up even more than the Dow. The NASDAQ 100 advanced 3.03 percent to 16,325.66 points. Semiconductor stocks like Applied Materials, ASML (ASML NV), NVIDIA and NXP Semiconductors gained up to eight percent. The market-wide S&P 500 rose by 2.07 percent to 4686.75 points./bek/jha/

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