Market Highlights

The post-Christmas session on Wall Street saw stocks fluctuatingnear their all-time highs as recent signs of economic resilience reinforced positive expectations for corporate profits. While the S&P 500 barely budged amid a slowdown in transactions, the equity gauge posted its best week in a month. Most megacaps fell, but Nvidia Corp. rose on a licensing deal with artificial- intelligence startup Groq. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. paced gains in materials producers as gold hit a record. Global stocks held gains from a record-breaking run fueled by artificial intelligence that’s helped markets rebound from an April slump sparked by tariff concerns. Volatility gripped precious metals such as silver, which climbed to another all-time high