Shares of NVIDIA Corp. NVDA rallied 4.45% to $144.47 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 1.26% to 5,942.47 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.80% to 42,732.13.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting in erratic trading on Thursday to start 2025. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in midday trading after flipping between an earlier loss of 0.1% and gain of 0.9%. It's coming off a four-day losing streak,

Tesla slumped after it disclosed it delivered fewer vehicles in the last three months of 2024 than analysts expected. The electric-vehicle company’s stock fell 6.2%. Some Big Tech stocks, which have been leading Wall Street for most of the last few years,