Dow Jones Wraps Session With 150-Point Gain, Two Stocks Account for Most of Move

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U.S. stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial intelligence boom. The Dow rose 149.60 points, or 0.3%, to 52,637.01, finishing the week down 0.5%. The S&P 500 rose 31.75 points, or 0....

Dow Jones Wraps Session With 150-Point Gain, Two Stocks Account for Most of Move

New York, July 10, 2026, 16:05 (EDT) The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 149.68 points, or 0.29%, to 52,637.09 on Friday. But most of that gain came from two stocks. Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) drove about 127 points together—about 85% of the Dow’s move—using the index’s per-dollar sensitivity of roughly 5.94 points for each…