{"id":435425,"date":"2026-08-05T03:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/sp-and-nasdaq-indices-close-at-new-record-levels-2-435425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:35:32","slug":"sp-and-nasdaq-indices-close-at-new-record-levels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/sp-and-nasdaq-indices-close-at-new-record-levels-2-435425\/","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P and NASDAQ indices close at new record levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">US stocks finished sharply higher, with all of the major indices posting gains of at least 1.7% as risk appetite remained firmly in control. The rally was led by technology shares, pushing the Nasdaq indices to the top of the leaderboard, while the S&amp;P 500 and Dow Industrials both closed at fresh record highs. Broad participation was also evident with the small-cap Russell 2000 posting a solid advance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nasdaq 100: 29,733.16, +956.36 points (+3.32%)<\/li>\n<li>Nasdaq Composite: 26,584.99, +671.10 points (+2.59%)<\/li>\n<li>Russell 2000: 3,036.98, +55.07 points (+1.85%)<\/li>\n<li>Dow Jones Industrial Average: 54,091.42, +908.11 points (+1.71%)<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P 500: 7,736.53, +136.04 points (+1.79%)(new record close)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is a list of some of the big winners with gains of 5%\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<li>Palantir (PLTR): +29.45%\n<\/li>\n<li>Arm (ARM): +17.39%\n<\/li>\n<li>Whirlpool (WHR): +13.80%\n<\/li>\n<li>Marvell (MRVL): +12.81%\n<\/li>\n<li>Albemarle (ALB): +12.65%\n<\/li>\n<li>Coherent (COHR): +12.35%\n<\/li>\n<li>SanDisk (SNDK): +10.97%\n<\/li>\n<li>Intel (INTC): +10.84%\n<\/li>\n<li>Super Micro Computer (SMCI): +10.61%\n<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX: +9.43%\n<\/li>\n<li>Corning (GLW): +9.06%\n<\/li>\n<li>Credo Technology (CRDO): +8.96%\n<\/li>\n<li>Dell Technologies (DELL): +8.92%\n<\/li>\n<li>Lumentum (LITE): +8.92%\n<\/li>\n<li>Defiance Drone &amp; Modern Warfare ETF (JEDI): +8.64%\n<\/li>\n<li>Skyworks Solutions (SWKS): +8.17%\n<\/li>\n<li>Lam Research (LRCX): +7.85%\n<\/li>\n<li>Micron (MU): +7.59%\n<\/li>\n<li>Qualcomm (QCOM): +7.33%\n<\/li>\n<li>CrowdStrike (CRWD): +7.16%\n<\/li>\n<li>AMD (AMD): +7.00%\n<\/li>\n<li>KLA (KLAC): +6.95%\n<\/li>\n<li>Broadcom (AVGO): +6.61%\n<\/li>\n<li>Nebius (NBIS): +6.19%\n<\/li>\n<li>Caterpillar (CAT): +5.57%\n<\/li>\n<li>VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH): +5.55%\n<\/li>\n<li>Palo Alto Networks (PANW): +5.53%\n<\/li>\n<li>Applied Materials (AMAT): +5.48%\n<\/li>\n<li>Texas Instruments (TXN): +5.43%\n<\/li>\n<li>Shopify (SHOP): +5.38%\n<\/li>\n<li>Datadog (DDOG): +5.35%\n<\/li>\n<li>Ciena (CIEN): +5.21%\n<\/li>\n<li>Cisco (CSCO): +5.08%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On that list is\u00a0AMD and SpaceX.\u00a0 Both are trading lower\u00a0in after hours trading after reporting earnings. AMD reported a revenue and EPS beat with EPS coming in at $1.66 versus $1.62 on revenues of $11.5 million versus $11.31 billion expected. It wasn&#8217;t good enough and the stock is trading down around 5.3% in after-hours trading. Palantir led the gains after earnings  and forward guidance beat expectations yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,SpaceX\u00a0reported its 1st earnings which came in at $-0.09 versus expected $-0.24. Revenues came in at $7.8 billion versus $6.83 billion expected. Shares are trading down -4.45% in after-hours trading<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US stocks finished sharply higher, with all of the major indices posting gains of at least 1.7% as risk appetite remained firmly in control. 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