The three main U.S. equity indexes opened in the green, trended higher through the morning, buckled after lunch and took off during the last two hours of another trading session defined for better and for worse by President Donald Trump.
At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.2% to 49,077, the S&P 500 had added 1.2% at 6,875, and the Nasdaq Composite was higher by 1.2% to 23,224.
