US stocks hit fresh record as Nvidia becomes most valuable public company

US stocks finished higher Tuesday, with the S&P 500 reaching a new record on a day that Nvidia edged ahead of Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company.

The chip company, which has enjoyed a monumental ascent over the last 18 months amid enthusiasm over generative AI, closed 3.5 percent higher, giving it a market capitalization of about $3.3 trillion, slightly ahead of the tech giants Microsoft and Apple. “We were kind of waiting for this moment, actually, for quite some time,” Angelo Zino from the financial intelligence firm CFRA told AFP.All three major indices rose on Wall Street, with the broad-based S&P 500 rising 0.3 percent to reach a new all-time high of 5,487.03.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2 percent to 38,834.86, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index finished up less than 0.1 percent at 17,862.23. Amid the ongoing enthusiasm for Nvidia, other chip companies saw gains on Tuesday, including Qualcomm and Micron, which closed up 2.2 percent and 3.8 percent respectively.

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