US Stocks Surge to Record Highs

U.S. stock indexes surged to record highs Tuesday, with investors heartened by the big advance in the country's labor market last month, even as they ignored the uncertain economic effects of the British vote to leave the European Union. In the last hour of trading in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 key stocks advanced past its all-time high closing high of 18,312, set in May 2015. The broader Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks also pushed past the record...

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