U.S. markets closed higher on Wednesday as stocks benefitted from a positive reaction to earnings news from companies like McDonald's, which jumped by 3%. The gain by McDonald's came after the fast-food giant reported second quarter results that exceeded street estimates on both the top and bottom lines. Moreover, the shares of Shopify surged by 22% after the e-commerce platform reported better than expected second quarter revenues and provided upbeat third quarter guidance. Besides, Apple helped to lead the markets higher, with the tech giant surging by 5.1% following reports the company will announce plans to invest another $100 billion to expand its U.S. operations during a White House event.
On sectoral front, significant strength has been seen in networking stocks with the NYSE Arca Networking Index surging by 5.6 percent to a record closing high. Further, retail stocks showed considerable up-move as reflected by the 2.8 percent jump by the Dow Jones U.S. Retail Index.
Dow Jones Industrial Average raised 81.38 points or 0.18 percent to 44,193.12, Nasdaq jumped 252.87 points or 1.21 percent to 21,169.42 and S&P 500 climbed 45.87 points or 0.73 percent to 6,345.06.
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