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Wall Street higher as Apple leads tech rally

Wall Street higher as Apple leads tech rally. U.S. stocks climbed on Monday led by gains in technology shares and Friday’s robust jobs data, which gave investors heightened confidence that the U.S. economy remained strong.

Apple rose 1 percent, providing the biggest boost to Nasdaq and S&P 500 indexes.

The iPhone maker was valued at $935.06 billion as of Friday’s close, inching its way towards becoming the first publicly listed company worth $1 trillion, ahead of its annual developers conference.

Microsoft inched 0.5 percent higher after saying it would buy privately held coding website GitHub Inc for $7.5 billion to expand its position among software developers.

The S&P technology index was 0.5 percent higher and tech-laden Nasdaq opened highest since March 13, when it hit a record.

The three main indexes were rising for the second consecutive session after Friday’s data showed jobs and wage growth for May beat expectations, with unemployment rate falling to an 18-year low.

“Economic data has been getting quietly better amid the sort of headline chaos,” Tom Essaye, founder of investment research firm Sevens Report said.

“The market has been focusing on those fundamentals and there has been a resiliency in stocks in the past couple of weeks because of better economic data and tame inflation.”

At 11:20 a.m. EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 180.62 points, or 0.73 percent, at 24,815.83, the S&P 500 was up 7.51 points, or 0.27 percent, at 2,742.13 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 21.15 points, or 0.28 percent, at 7,575.49.

Ten of the 11 main S&P indexes were trading higher.

Boeing rose 1.3 percent, the biggest boost to the Dow, after the planemaker said it would partner with French aerospace firm Safran SA to make and service aircraft parts.

Nektar Therapeutics slumped 39.7 percent after mixed results from its experimental cancer drug with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo disappointed investors and weighed heavily on the S&P healthcare index. Bristol-Myers Squibb’s was 5.8 percent lower.

Merck gained about 1.9 percent after latest data showed its cancer drug Keytruda improved survival as a stand-alone treatment for a type of lung cancer.

Among other stocks, Facebook fell 0.5 percent on a New York Times report that claimed the company had allowed Apple and other major device makers “deep” access to users’ personal data.

Whirlpool rose 2.4 percent after Credit Suisse upgraded the stock to “buy”.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners for a 1.27-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and for a 1.04-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 37 new 52-week highs and five new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 152 new highs and 28 new lows.

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Following 11+ years of trading experience, trading my own accounts as well as for hedge funds and brokerages, I have decided to fulfill my destiny and to personally mentor Forex and Commodities traders. When I released the “Broker Nightmare” (software that hides trades from brokers) 8 years ago, I found an overwhelming number of frustrated people who genuinely wanted to learn how to trade the Forex market, but instead found themselves scammed and misled. Over the years I have also release other trading systems based on my trading strategies, and met a lot of people on my worldwide Forex seminars. We’ve formed a close Forex community and we meet once or twice a year in various locations in Europe.

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