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 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.

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 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%.

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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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.

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,

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