NEW YORK, July 19, (APP/AFP) – Wall Street stocks jumped
to fresh records Wednesday on higher oil prices, better-than-expected housing data and mostly solid earnings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3 percent to close at
21,639.11, edging past its prior record set earlier this month.
The S&P 500 gained 0.5 percent to end at 2,473.66, while the
tech-rich Nasdaq advanced 0.6 percent to 6,385.04. It was the second straight day of new records for those indexes.
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