Dow Sets New Record Near 53,400 as Chip Rotation Pulls Nasdaq Down 0.9%

Wall Street split hard down the middle on Tuesday, July 7, as a familiar rotation reasserted itself: money flowed out of semiconductors and back into the industrial, financial, and healthcare names that anchor the Dow, sending the blue-chip index to yet another record while the tech-heavy Nasdaq slid. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded up roughly 148 points, or about 0.3%, near 53,395, building on Monday's record close of 53,055.91. The S&P 500 slipped 0.14% to around 7,542, giving back a sliver of Monday's 0.72% advance to 7,537.43. The Nasdaq Composite fell about 0.9%, or roughly 269 points, from Monday's close of 26,121.16, while the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.10% toward 29,435. The catalyst sat overseas: Samsung's earnings, though strong on paper, failed to satisfy a market that has priced in near-perfection from the AI complex.

Dow Hits Another Record as the Rotation Deepens

The Dow's push to a fresh all-time high extended a run that has defined the last two weeks of trading. The 30-stock average added roughly 148 points intraday to trade near 53,395, having closed Monday at a record 53,055.91 after a 155.84-point gain. The move came even as the broader tape turned defensive, underscoring how thoroughly capital has rotated away from the high-multiple growth names that led the first half of the year.

Monday's session set the template. Boeing climbed 3.55%, IBM added 3.43%, and Goldman Sachs rose 3.28%, dragging the price-weighted index higher on the strength of cyclical and financial exposure rather than megacap tech. That same posture carried into Tuesday, with the Dow's advance clashing against a 0.9% Nasdaq decline and a fractional S&P 500 pullback.

The divergence is the story. When the Dow rises while the Nasdaq falls, it signals that investors are trimming exposure to the most richly valued corners of the market and parking cash in businesses with steadier cash flows and lower sensitivity to interest-rate expectations. The Dow closed above 53,000 for the first time on Monday, and Tuesday's intraday record confirmed that the breakout was not a one-session event. Richard Bernstein of Janus Henderson framed the broadening as healthy, noting that earnings growth has been both strong and widely distributed across sectors. For now, the market's leadership baton has passed from chips to the old economy, and the Dow's record tape reflects exactly that handoff.

Samsung's 19-Fold Profit Jump Still Disappoints a Demanding Tape

The spark for Tuesday's tech weakness came from Seoul. Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory-chip maker by market value, reported a roughly 19-fold year-on-year surge in quarterly profit — a figure that would ordinarily electrify the semiconductor complex. Instead, the stock tumbled as much as 11% in Seoul trading, and South Korea's Kospi plunged more than 7% as the disappointment rippled across Asian tech.

The problem was not the result itself but the expectations stacked against it. Adam Crisafulli of Vital Knowledge captured the dynamic bluntly, warning that the reaction to Samsung exposes one of the largest risks facing markets in the weeks ahead. Second-quarter earnings are likely to look robust in absolute terms, he noted, but unlike the first-quarter season, expectations are now extremely bullish. With the S&P 500 sitting roughly 1,000 points higher than it was heading into the Q1 releases, the bar for a positive surprise has climbed sharply. A 19-fold profit increase clearing consensus is no longer enough when the market has already banked the good news.

That framing matters because it applies to the entire AI supply chain. Samsung's report was supposed to serve as a pulse check on memory demand and the broader chip cycle, following Foxconn parent Hon Hai's stronger-than-expected sales over the weekend. Monday's rally had leaned on exactly that optimism, with chip stocks rebounding after June's slump. Tuesday's reversal showed how fragile that confidence remains when a fundamentally strong print still fails to clear a sky-high hurdle. The Nikkei 225 fell 2.72% to 68,354.60, and the risk-off tone in Asian technology set the stage for a soft open in US semiconductors. Traders now head into the heart of Q2 season knowing that beating estimates may not be sufficient — companies will need to beat them convincingly and guide higher to keep the AI trade intact.

The Chip Complex Cracks as Memory Names Lead the Retreat

The Samsung fallout hit US semiconductors directly. Micron Technology, the closest domestic proxy for the memory cycle, slid more than 4% in premarket trading, and peers across the storage and equipment space followed. Sandisk fell more than 4% alongside Micron, while the broader chip group struggled to find footing as the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.10%.

The weakness carried echoes of late June, when a two-day semiconductor selloff pulled the VanEck Semiconductor ETF down 4.5% in a single session and dragged the Nasdaq lower even as the Dow set records. That episode saw Teradyne fall 13.6% and KLA slide 11.5% in one brutal stretch, with Nvidia pulling back 1.4% and Micron losing 5.5%. Tuesday's move was milder but rhymed with the same theme: the market is repeatedly testing whether the AI capital-expenditure boom can justify the valuations attached to it.

Not every analyst is backing away. KeyBanc reiterated its overweight rating on Nvidia during the session, arguing the company remains uniquely positioned to benefit from secular AI and machine-learning growth within the data-center industry. That vote of confidence highlights the split running through the sector — long-term believers holding their positions while short-term traders lock in gains from a group that has run red-hot for months.

The rotation out of chips has become a recurring pressure valve. After months in which semiconductors did the heavy lifting for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, investors are periodically revaluing the AI trade and reallocating toward areas that have lagged. Overcapacity fears, rising competition, and questions about the eventual returns on enormous AI investments all feed the caution. With the Nasdaq down roughly 269 points and memory names leading the decline, Tuesday marked another chapter in a volatile stretch for chip stocks that shows no sign of settling into a clean trend. The direction of the group into the back half of Q2 earnings will hinge on whether the next round of reports can reset expectations rather than merely meet them.

Tesla Surges 6.7% as the EV Trade Reawakens

Against the chip-driven gloom, Tesla stood out as one of the tape's clearest winners. Shares jumped 6.69%, or $26.32, to $419.77 on heavy volume of nearly 54.7 million shares — a standout advance that pushed the electric-vehicle maker to the front of the market's gainers. The move extended a run of strength for the stock, which has increasingly traded on its autonomy and AI narrative rather than pure vehicle-delivery math.

Tesla's rally underscored a broader point about Tuesday's session: the selling was concentrated in semiconductors, not in megacap technology as a whole. Big Tech names held firm or rose, with investors treating the group as a relative safe harbor even as chip stocks stumbled. Tesla's outperformance fit that pattern, drawing buyers who see it as a bet on software and automation as much as on car production.

The volume told its own story. At nearly 54.7 million shares changing hands, Tesla was among the most actively traded names on the day, a sign that the move reflected genuine conviction rather than thin, low-liquidity drift. That level of participation matters because it lends durability to a rally; a 6.69% jump on heavy turnover is harder to fade than the same move on a quiet tape.

Tesla's strength also helped cushion the S&P 500, keeping the index's decline to a fractional 0.14% even as the Nasdaq Composite fell roughly 0.9%. As one of the largest weights in both benchmarks, a $26 move higher in the stock offsets a meaningful chunk of the drag from falling chip names. The session reinforced how much index-level performance now depends on the direction of a handful of megacap stocks pulling in different directions from one another.

For traders, the takeaway was that the rotation sweeping through markets is more surgical than a blanket flight from growth. Money left the memory and equipment names hardest hit by the Samsung read-through, but it did not abandon technology wholesale. Tesla's 6.7% surge to $419.77 was the sharpest expression of that distinction, a reminder that within a single sector, the market is still willing to pay up for the stories it believes in most.

AMD Bucks the Chip Weakness With a 6.6% Climb

Advanced Micro Devices offered the sharpest counterpoint to the semiconductor selloff, climbing 6.61%, or $34.23, to $552.05 on volume above 30.6 million shares. In a session defined by memory-chip weakness and Samsung-driven caution, AMD's advance stood out as evidence that the sector's troubles were not uniform.

The divergence is instructive. The pressure Tuesday centered on memory and equipment names tied most directly to Samsung's read-through — Micron, Sandisk, and the storage complex. AMD, by contrast, sits on the logic and accelerator side of the market, where the demand narrative around data-center compute and AI training has remained more resilient. That distinction allowed the stock to attract buyers even as the broader chip group sagged, and its 6.6% move ran counter to a Nasdaq 100 that fell 1.10%.

AMD has whipsawed alongside the rest of the sector in recent weeks. During late June's rebound, the stock surged 6.6% in a single session as chipmakers clawed back losses, only to face renewed selling pressure when sentiment soured. Tuesday's climb fit that volatile rhythm — a group that swings hard in both directions as investors continually reprice the AI opportunity against the risks of overcapacity and competition.

The heavy volume behind the move, north of 30.6 million shares, suggested real buying rather than a technical bounce. For a stock that has become a core holding in the AI-compute thesis, that participation matters. It signals that at least a portion of the market views the Samsung-driven weakness as a memory-specific problem rather than a verdict on the entire semiconductor space.

AMD's outperformance also reinforced the theme running through Tuesday's tape: rotation is happening within sectors, not just between them. Just as Tesla pulled away from the pack within megacap tech, AMD separated from its memory-chip peers within semiconductors. The market is drawing increasingly fine distinctions, rewarding the names it associates with durable AI demand while punishing those most exposed to the memory cycle's boom-and-bust dynamics. With AMD up $34.23 at $552.05, the stock became the clearest example of a chipmaker swimming against a decidedly negative tide.

Western Digital and the Storage Bid Defy the Memory Selloff

Western Digital added another wrinkle to the semiconductor picture, climbing 7.14%, or $38.46, to $577.46 on volume near 7.6 million shares. The move was striking given the backdrop — a session in which memory-adjacent names were supposed to be under the most pressure following Samsung's disappointing report and the resulting slide in Micron and Sandisk.

Western Digital's strength echoed a pattern from Monday, when the stock led the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF higher with a 7% climb. The Select Sector fund itself added nearly 2% Monday as chip stocks rebounded, with Teradyne jumping 2.8%, Marvell Technology rising more than 1%, and Oracle gaining 2.5%. That rally reflected renewed faith in the AI trade after June's slump, and Western Digital's continued advance into Tuesday suggested that at least part of the storage complex retained its bid even as broader memory sentiment turned.

The split between Western Digital's gains and Micron's roughly 4% premarket decline captures the market's increasingly granular approach to semiconductors. Storage and drive makers occupy a somewhat different position in the AI buildout than pure memory-chip suppliers, and investors appear to be differentiating between the two. Data-center expansion continues to drive demand for high-capacity storage, and that structural tailwind has helped Western Digital hold up while its memory peers wobbled.

At $577.46, Western Digital's 7.14% jump ranked it among the strongest performers on the day, alongside Arista Networks, which surged 8.31% to $173.28, and NetApp, which climbed 6.08% to $163.55. The clustering of storage and networking names near the top of the leaderboard pointed to a specific pocket of strength within technology — infrastructure providers benefiting from AI-driven data-center growth even as the chip trade broadly cooled.

That concentration of gains in storage and networking, set against weakness in memory chips, reinforced Tuesday's central lesson. The AI selloff was not a wholesale retreat from technology infrastructure but a targeted repricing of the names most exposed to Samsung's cautionary signal. Western Digital's advance to $577.46, on solid volume, showed that capital was still willing to chase the parts of the AI supply chain where the demand story looked most durable.

First Solar Rockets on Deutsche Bank's Buy-the-Dip Call

First Solar emerged as one of Tuesday's most talked-about movers after Deutsche Bank urged investors to buy the recent weakness in the stock. Shares climbed sharply on the upgrade, with the bank calling First Solar one of the fundamentally strongest businesses in its clean-technology coverage for investors seeking a US-based panel manufacturer with a solid balance sheet.

The endorsement carried weight because it leaned on First Solar's structural advantages rather than a short-term trading thesis. Deutsche Bank pointed to the company's position as a domestic solar-panel producer, a status that has taken on added importance amid ongoing scrutiny of supply chains and a policy environment increasingly focused on US-based manufacturing. That combination of financial strength and onshore production gave the bank confidence to recommend the stock even after a pullback.

First Solar's rally offered a rare bright spot outside of technology and the Dow's cyclical leaders, drawing attention to clean energy at a moment when the broader market was preoccupied with the AI trade's stumbles. The move demonstrated that analyst catalysts remained capable of driving sharp single-stock reactions independent of the day's dominant rotation theme.

The upgrade also fit a broader pattern of selective conviction running through Tuesday's analyst commentary. Just as KeyBanc stood behind Nvidia and Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on newly listed SpaceX, Deutsche Bank's First Solar call reflected a willingness among sell-side firms to plant flags on specific names even in a choppy tape. Rather than making sweeping sector bets, analysts were picking individual stories they believed could outperform regardless of the market's near-term direction.

For First Solar specifically, the buy-the-dip framing was notable. It implied that the recent softness in the shares represented an entry point rather than a warning sign, a view that clearly resonated with buyers who pushed the stock higher during the session. In a market increasingly defined by rotation and repricing, First Solar's jump on a fundamentals-driven upgrade showed that old-fashioned stock picking still moved the needle. The rally added the solar manufacturer to a growing list of names — Tesla, AMD, Western Digital, Arista — that found their own catalysts and pulled away from the pack even as the headline indices told a mixed and cautious story.

Rivian Slides More Than 10% on a 75-Million-Share Offering

Rivian Automotive delivered Tuesday's sharpest cautionary tale, tumbling more than 10% in premarket trading after the electric-vehicle maker announced a public offering of 75 million shares of Class A common stock. The capital raise, disclosed during extended-hours trading, immediately reset the stock's trajectory after a strong run.

The timing made the drop especially painful for recent buyers. Rivian shares had risen 8.1% on Monday and jumped 19% over the prior week, riding the same wave of enthusiasm that lifted much of the EV and growth complex. A 75-million-share offering abruptly interrupted that momentum, introducing the prospect of dilution just as the stock had built up meaningful gains. Equity offerings expand the share count, spreading a company's value across more shares and pressuring the price in the near term, and Rivian's investors reacted accordingly.

The move stood in stark contrast to Tesla's 6.69% surge to $419.77 on the same day. The two EV makers, often mentioned together, diverged sharply — Tesla drawing buyers on its autonomy and software narrative while Rivian faced selling tied directly to its financing decision. That split highlighted how company-specific events could override sector-wide sentiment, sending closely related stocks in opposite directions within a single session.

Capital raises are a double-edged tool for growth-stage companies. On one hand, they shore up the balance sheet and fund expansion, giving a business the resources to scale production and pursue its roadmap. On the other, they signal to the market that the company needs cash and are willing to accept dilution to get it, a message that often triggers an immediate negative reaction. Rivian's decision to raise capital after a 19% weekly gain suggested management chose to capitalize on the stock's strength, a rational move for the company that nonetheless stung existing shareholders.

The double-digit decline knocked Rivian off the leaderboard and served as a reminder that in a market chasing momentum, financing announcements can reverse a rally in an instant. For a stock that had been among the week's strongest performers, the offering transformed sentiment overnight. Rivian's slide underscored that beneath the index-level rotation, individual catalysts — upgrades, downgrades, and capital raises — remained the most powerful forces moving single stocks on any given day.

Apple Firms as JPMorgan Lifts Its Target to $345

Apple provided a steadying influence within megacap technology after JPMorgan reiterated its overweight rating and raised its price target on the stock to $345 from $325. The move added to the sense that Big Tech was serving as a relative haven on a day when semiconductors bore the brunt of the selling.

JPMorgan's reasoning centered on a more favorable outlook than many investors currently fear. The bank acknowledged that short-term consumer responses to unprecedented price increases — driven in part by rising memory costs — were being debated, but argued that several drivers would push Apple's revenue and earnings outcomes to be far more favorable than the market expects. That constructive stance, lifting the target by $20, offered a counterweight to the caution swirling around technology names tied to the memory cycle.

The Apple call fit a larger theme running through Tuesday's session: investors rotating into established megacap names as they trimmed exposure to the most volatile corners of the chip trade. Alongside Apple, other Big Tech and defensive names drew buyers, with Microsoft up around 1% and Eli Lilly gaining more than 2% as capital sought steadier ground. The pattern reflected a market recalibrating rather than retreating — moving toward businesses with durable franchises and away from those most exposed to the Samsung-driven memory scare.

Notably, the memory-cost pressure JPMorgan referenced ties Apple directly to the same dynamics driving Tuesday's chip weakness. Rising memory prices, a byproduct of the tight supply conditions that have lifted names like Micron and Western Digital, feed into Apple's component costs. JPMorgan's willingness to raise its target despite that headwind signaled confidence that Apple's pricing power and product roadmap could absorb the pressure and still deliver upside.

At a $345 target, JPMorgan implied meaningful room to run for a stock that anchors both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. Apple's stability helped limit the damage to the broader indices, contributing to a session in which the S&P 500 fell just 0.14% even as the Nasdaq Composite dropped roughly 0.9%. The upgrade reinforced the market's growing preference for megacap technology over the memory-chip names at the center of the day's selloff, positioning Apple as a beneficiary of the very rotation reshaping the tape.

SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq-100, Triggering Index-Fund Inflows

One of Tuesday's most closely watched events had nothing to do with earnings or analyst calls: SpaceX's addition to the Nasdaq-100 Index. The inclusion is expected to trigger billions of dollars in buying from index funds obligated to hold the benchmark's constituents, making it one of the most significant market events of the week.

Index inclusions carry mechanical force. When a stock joins a major benchmark like the Nasdaq-100, every fund tracking that index must purchase shares to match its new weighting, generating a wave of demand independent of the company's fundamentals. For a name as prominent as SpaceX, that automatic buying can be substantial, and traders positioned ahead of the event in anticipation of the inflows.

The timing added intrigue. SpaceX entered the index on a day when the broader Nasdaq was falling roughly 0.9%, meaning the fresh demand from index funds arrived against a backdrop of general tech weakness. That dynamic set up a tug-of-war between structural buying tied to the inclusion and the risk-off sentiment weighing on the sector as a whole.

Morgan Stanley marked the occasion by initiating coverage of SpaceX with an overweight rating, arguing the stock still had considerable upside. The firm framed SpaceX as holding a singular position in space infrastructure, with the potential to convert energy into intelligence at scale and monetize through a range of consumer and enterprise applications. That bullish initiation, coinciding with the index inclusion, amplified attention on the newly public space company.

SpaceX's arrival in the Nasdaq-100 reflects a broader wave of high-profile listings reshaping the index's composition. The market has absorbed a string of notable debuts in recent months, and each addition to a major benchmark alters the passive flows that increasingly drive daily price action. For SpaceX specifically, the combination of forced index buying and a fresh overweight rating created a powerful near-term demand backdrop.

The event underscored how much modern markets are shaped by index mechanics as much as by earnings and economic data. Billions in expected inflows from a single index inclusion can move a stock regardless of the day's macro tone, and SpaceX's entry into the Nasdaq-100 stood as a prime example of that force at work on an otherwise cautious Tuesday.

Oil Pushes Toward $69 as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Flare

Energy markets injected fresh geopolitical risk into Tuesday's session as crude oil climbed toward $69 following reports of renewed hostilities near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces reportedly fired on two commercial vessels in the area, reigniting concerns about potential disruptions to one of the world's most critical energy chokepoints. Oil rose 47 cents to $69.02 as the news crossed.

The Strait of Hormuz carries a substantial share of global seaborne crude, and any threat to shipping through the passage tends to send oil prices higher on fears of supply interruptions. Tuesday's incident revived a risk that has periodically rattled markets, adding a layer of uncertainty for investors already weighing inflation dynamics and the path of interest rates. Higher energy costs feed directly into inflation readings, complicating the outlook for monetary policy at a moment when the Federal Reserve's next moves remain a central market preoccupation.

The oil move rippled into equity sectors in uneven ways. Energy producers typically benefit from rising crude, while sectors sensitive to input costs and consumer spending can face pressure when fuel prices climb. The geopolitical flare-up also reinforced the case for defensive positioning, feeding into the same rotation that lifted the Dow's cyclical and industrial names while weighing on high-multiple growth stocks.

The timing compounded the market's caution. Coming alongside the Samsung-driven tech selloff and ahead of key economic data, the Hormuz news gave traders another reason to trim risk in the most volatile corners of the market. Crude's advance to $69.02 served as a reminder that macro and geopolitical forces can reassert themselves quickly, overriding the micro-level stock stories that dominate on quieter days.

For the broader tape, the oil spike underscored how many crosscurrents were converging on a single session. Rising crude, disappointing chip earnings, an index inclusion, and a wave of analyst calls all competed for investor attention, producing a market that moved in different directions across sectors. The Strait of Hormuz incident added a genuine tail risk to the mix — one capable of escalating and reshaping the energy and inflation outlook if tensions in the region continue to build in the days ahead.

The Rotation Playbook: Where the Money Is Moving

Tuesday's tape offered a clear map of where capital was flowing as investors rotated out of semiconductors. The beneficiaries clustered in healthcare, financials, and defensive megacap technology — sectors offering steadier earnings and lower sensitivity to the AI-valuation debate roiling the chip complex. Eli Lilly gained more than 2%, JPMorgan rose around 1%, and Microsoft added roughly 1% as buyers sought firmer ground.

Walmart also climbed about 1%, aided by news that the retailer was cutting prices on staples such as ground beef and Coca-Cola. That development highlighted the consumer-facing resilience investors were gravitating toward, with a defensive retailer offering both stability and a direct read on household spending. The move fit the broader pattern of capital seeking businesses insulated from the volatility gripping the AI trade.

The rotation's logic traces back to valuation and positioning. After semiconductors led the market's first-half surge, the group grew expensive and crowded, leaving it vulnerable to any disappointment — precisely what Samsung's report delivered. With the S&P 500 sitting roughly 1,000 points higher than it entered Q1 earnings season, the bar for tech had risen dramatically. Investors responded by reallocating toward sectors that had lagged and now offered more attractive risk-reward, particularly names with durable cash flows less tied to AI-spending assumptions.

Oppenheimer's John Stoltzfus offered a roadmap that aligned with the day's action, pointing to information technology, communications services, industrials, financials, and consumer discretionary as sectors to watch. He argued that as long as the domestic fundamentals that benefited investors in the first half remained intact, equities retained upside — while cautioning that periods of volatility were inevitable as uncertainties arose. His emphasis on focusing on signal over noise captured the measured tone many strategists struck amid the rotation.

Corporate financing activity added another dimension. Amazon looked to raise at least $25 billion through a dollar bond sale, with shares rising 0.8% in premarket trading as the market absorbed the news. Large debt issuance from a megacap signaled continued appetite for capital deployment even amid the tech wobble. Taken together, the flows painted a picture of a market rotating with intent rather than fleeing — trimming its most stretched positions in chips while redeploying into healthcare, financials, consumer staples, and select Big Tech. The Dow's record reflected exactly where that money landed.

What Traders Are Watching: Fed Minutes, Trade Data, and the Q2 Bar

With the session's rotation firmly underway, attention turned to the macro catalysts capable of steering markets through the rest of the week. Chief among them were the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes, which investors hoped would offer fresh clues about the path of interest rates. Any hint about the timing and pace of future policy moves carries outsized weight for a market where rate expectations shape the relative appeal of growth versus value.

Economic data added another layer. Traders awaited US trade deficit figures for a read on the health of the economy, one of several data points that could reinforce or challenge the current rotation. With oil pushing toward $69 on Strait of Hormuz tensions, inflation-sensitive readings took on added importance, since rising energy costs complicate the Fed's calculus and could shift the outlook for rate cuts.

The overarching question, though, remained the Q2 earnings bar. Samsung's experience — a 19-fold profit surge that still sent the stock tumbling as much as 11% — laid bare the challenge facing companies reporting into elevated expectations. Vital Knowledge's warning that the bar is quite elevated, with the S&P 500 roughly 1,000 points above its Q1 starting point, framed the risk cleanly: strong results may not be enough. Companies will need to beat convincingly and guide higher to sustain the rally, and any that merely meet estimates could face the same fate as Samsung.

That backdrop leaves markets in a delicate position. The Dow's record near 53,395 and Monday's close of 53,055.91 reflect genuine strength in cyclical and financial names, while the Nasdaq's 0.9% slide signals real fragility in the AI trade. Tesla's 6.7% surge to $419.77, AMD's climb to $552.05, and Western Digital's advance to $577.46 showed that conviction remains in specific stories, even as Micron's roughly 4% drop and Rivian's double-digit slide revealed where the pressure points lie. For now, the rotation out of chips and into the broader market has kept the indices resilient overall, with the S&P 500 down just 0.14% at 7,542. The path forward hinges on whether Q2 earnings can clear an unusually high bar, whether the Fed minutes soothe or unsettle rate expectations, and whether the Strait of Hormuz tensions ease or escalate — a trio of variables that will determine if the Dow's record run can broaden into a durable second-half advance or give way to another bout of volatility.

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