NASDAQ and S&P indices end the week with five straight days of gains

Major US stock indexes closed higher today. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 had a perfect week with five straight days of gains. The Nasdaq erased its -5.77% decline from last week with a gain of 5.95%.

The image shows today’s closing levels as follows:

• The Dow Industrial Average rose 297.01 points, or 0.72%, to 41,393.78.
• The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 30.26 points, or 0.54%, to 5,626.02 points.
• The Nasdaq Composite rose 114.30 points, or 0.65%, to 17,683.98.

The Russell 2000 index rose 53.06 points, or 2.49%, to 2,182.49.

For the trading week:

• The Dow rose 2.60% after falling 2.93% last week.
• The S&P rose 4.02% after falling -4.25% last week.
• The Nasdaq rose 5.95% after falling -5.77% last week.
• The Russell 2000 Index rose 4.355% after falling 5.69% last week.

Among the big winners this week:

• ARM holdings up 25.88%
• Broadcom, +22.41%
• Rubber, +22.03%
• Super Micro Computer, 18.29%
• Palantir, +17.21%
• Nvidia, +15.82%
• AMD, +13.37%
• First Solar, +9.64%
• Tesla, +9.28%
• United Airlines, +9.17%
• Amazon, +8.81%

Among the losers this week:

• Raytheon, -17.7%
• GameStop, -13.67%
• Hadith -6.52%
• Adobe, -4.71%
• JPMorgan -3.82%
• Southwest Airlines -3.40%
• Biogen -2.58%
• Citigroup -2.37%
• Wells Fargo -2.22%
• Occidental -1.88%
• General Mills -1.84%
• General Motors -1.76%