Record-breaking day on Wall Street for Nasdaq, S&P 500
The Nasdaq Composite and Standard and Poor's 500 hit new record highs following release of a favorable jobs report.
Nvidia closed with a market capitalization of $3.89 trillion, soon to eclipse Apple as the world's most valuable company.
"We are seeing a real bout of irrational exuberance; the stock market is very biased towards optimism," Kristina Hooper, Chief Market Strategist at Man Group in New York told CNBC Thursday. "But there's some basis for it. I think there is some level of relief because the jobs report was not as weak as it could have been."
U.S. Markets Rally
Canada Advances
S&P/TSX Composite (Canada) (^GSPTSE): Up 164.60 points (0.61 percent) to 27,034.26
UK and European Markets Mostly Higher
FTSE 100 (^FTSE): Up 48.51 points (0.55 percent) to 8,823.20
DAX (^GDAXI): Added 144.02 points (0.61 percent) to 23,934.13
CAC 40 (^FCHI): Edged up 16.13 points (0.21 percent) to 7,754.55
EURO STOXX 50 (^STOXX50E): Climbed 24.43 points (0.46 percent) to 5,343.15
Euronext 100 (^N100): Increased 3.87 points (0.25 percent) to 1,581.23
BEL 20 (^BFX): Declined 6.67 points (0.15 percent) to 4,486.13
Asia and Pacific Mixed
SSE Composite (China) (000001.SS): Edged up 6.36 points (0.18 percent) to 3,461.15
Nikkei 225 (Japan) (^N225): Inched up 23.42 points (0.06 percent) to 39,785.90
Hang Seng Index (^HSI): Fell 151.47 points (0.63 percent) to 24,069.94
STI Index (Singapore) (^STI): Gained 8.80 points (0.22 percent) to 4,019.57
S&P/ASX 200 (^AXJO): Slipped 1.90 points (0.02 percent) to 8,595.80
All Ordinaries (Australia) (^AORD): Rose 4.90 points (0.06 percent) to 8,833.60
S&P BSE SENSEX (India) (^BSESN): Dropped 170.22 points (0.20 percent) to 83,239.47
IDX COMPOSITE (Indonesia) (^JKSE): Down 3.19 points (0.05 percent) to 6,878.05
FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (^KLSE): Fell 1.22 points (0.08 percent) to 1,548.99
S&P/NZX 50 (New Zealand) (^NZ50): Declined 79.81 points (0.62 percent) to 12,704.48
KOSPI (South Korea) (^KS11): Surged 41.21 points (1.34 percent) to 3,116.27
TWSE (Taiwan) (^TWII): Gained 135.23 points (0.60 percent) to 22,712.97
Middle East Markets Close Higher
TA-125 (Israel) (^TA125.TA): Rose 28.09 points (0.91 percent) to 3,106.80
EGX 30 (Egypt) (^CASE30): Increased 113.30 points (0.35 percent) to 32,820.50
Africa Gains
Johannesburg All Share (South Africa) (^JN0U.JO): Gained 48.24 points (0.89 percent) to 5,469.10.
Currency Markets
US Dollar Index (DX-Y.NYB): Strengthened 0.40 points (0.42 percent) to 97.18
MSCI Europe (^125904-USD-STRD): Rose 7.18 points (0.30 percent) to 2,429.92
British Pound Index (^XDB): Up 0.12 points (0.09 percent) to 136.48
Euro Currency Index (^XDE): Fell 0.42 points (0.36 percent) to 117.56
Japanese Yen Index (^XDN): Dropped 0.62 points (0.89 percent) to 68.96
Australian Dollar Index (^XDA): Slipped 0.11 points (0.17 percent) to 65.71
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