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

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%.

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.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to a fresh intraday high in late morning trading on Monday, with shares of oil producer Chevron Corp. posting the biggest gains in the stock-market index. The Dow rose to a session high of 49,

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.

December support zone on the first trading day of the year and remains within a long-term uptrend, we would like to go long with a stop loss below the 19 December low at 47,785 and an upside target just below the psychological 50,

U.S. stocks finished higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending at a fresh record, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite also logged strong gains to kick off the first full trading week of the new year.

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Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, led by a mix of energy companies and banks. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Monday and the Nasdaq composite added 0.7%.

Two industry-leading businesses are ideally positioned to announce and complete their respective first-ever splits.

Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Monday as technology stocks recovered and oil companies surged following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the United States in a military strike.