
Dow surges more than 600 points
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US stocks surged Friday as an end-of-week rally gained momentum and sent the Dow up over 600 points.
A new batch of bank earnings and economic data Friday morning increased investors' optimism about the state of the economy and relieved them of worries that the Federal Reserve could raise rates by a full percentage point at its meeting later this month.
The Dow (INDU) gained 622 points, or 22% in early afternoon trading. The S&P 500 (DVS) was up by 1.8% and the Nasdaq (NDX) rose by 1.6%.

Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, “Help your country… and yourself.” Written underneath the poster is the sentence, “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line.