New York stocks: indices start the new week with further record highs | 02/08/21

NEW YORK (awp international) – With price gains and further index highs, the US stock markets seamlessly continued the strong previous week on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial climbed a record high of 31,361 points in early trading and was most recently 0.63 percent higher at 31,343.36 points.

The other leading indices also posted further record highs. So the S&P 500 went up to 3909 points. Most recently the market-wide index gained 0.56 percent to 3908.64 points. The technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 made it up to 13,696 points and recently recorded a gain of 0.63 percent at 13,689.69 points./edh/he

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