NEW YORK CITY—The Dow and the S&P 500 closed at new record highs Thursday on robust corporate earnings reports and the latest reaffirmation of the Federal Reserve's easy-money policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 78.02 (0.50 percent) to 15,548.54. The broad-market S&P 500 ended 8.46 (0.50 percent) higher at 1,689.37. The rally solidly topped both indices' prior closing records set Monday of 15,484.26 on the blue-chip Dow and 1,682.50 on the S&P 500. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index, meanwhile, eked out a gain of 1.28 (0.04 percent) to 3,611.28 after some disappointing earnings reports, including from Dow m...
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