Stocks took their cues from a sizzling overnight session for the Japanese equities market and a red-hot post-earnings rally for Nvidia (NVDA). Indeed, the main benchmarks soared up the charts Thursday, with two of the three notching new record closes.
There were two main catalysts that sparked today's broad-market rally. One was the overnight move in Japan's stock market, with the Nikkei hitting a fresh record high for the first time since December 1989.
