‘Encouraging': Earnings numbers push US markets to record highs
'The best levels of the day, we had the S&P 500 up by about two-thirds of a per cent,' he told Sky News Australia.
'But in both cases, the S&P and the Nasdaq hit record highs, so that's encouraging.'
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