The Dow Jones rose 595 points, or 1.2% to $48,977, while stocks in American oil companies like Chevron, which is the last remaining U.S. oil major in Venezuela, also closed at a high. Chevron gained 5% Monday.

In midday trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high, jumping 713 points, or 1.5%, to 49,095. The S&P 500 gained 0.8%, and the Nasdaq climbed more than 200 points, or 1%, to 23,458.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is headed for its first all-time high of 2026—and is on pace to close above 49000 for the first-time on record. The index was up more than 1.5% in midday trading, than

The Nasdaq 100 bounced a bit from the 50-day EMA during trading on Monday in the early hours, and it does look like it’s trying to hang on to the overall bullish attitude that it had been in for a while. The market has respected a trend line yet again, at least so far, and now it looks like it is ready to get back to work after holiday trading.

Dow Jones futures, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures, traded slightly lower ahead of Tuesday's open, after the stock market rally Monday. Late Monday, NvidiaNVDA Chief Executive Jensen Huang announced a new artificial intelligence chip,

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit record all-time highs in 2025 with many of the components ending the year higher. Along with serving as a well-known barometer of overall market health, the index offers some of the top yielding blue-chip stocks.

Monday’s gains put the Dow in the lead among major U.S. equity benchmarks, with the index advancing 1.5% on the session. Among individual components, several key names contributed notably to the rally including shares of Chevron ( CVX) which have gained more than 5%.

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The Dow Jones index rose after the U.S. ousted Venezuelan President Maduro. Nvidia rallied and Reddit tested an entry.