US stocks close marginally higher.

Major US stock indices closed higher on the day, with the Russell 2000 leading the charge with a modest gain of 0.33%. Both the Dow and the S&P rose by 0.19%, while the NASDAQ index increased by 0.10%. The stock market winners and losers showed a sharply bifurcated tone today, with investors aggressively rewarding select technology, commodity, and infrastructure-related names while rotating out of consumer, retail, travel, and some high-growth momentum stocks. Semiconductor and AI-linked shares helped power many of the session’s biggest gainers, while weakness in consumer discretionary and select technology names weighed on the downside. The divergence highlighted a market still willing to chase growth and momentum in favored sectors, but equally quick to punish stocks facing valuation pressure, slowing growth concerns, or profit taking. Some of the biggest large cap winners (Gains of 5% or More) Corning (GLW): +10.89% Barrick Mining (B): +9.02% Qualcomm (QCOM): +8.42% Vertiv Holdings (VRT): +8.23% CF Industries (CF): +8.23% Coinbase Global (COIN): +7.68% Western Digital (WDC): +7.46% Papa John’s (PZZA): +7.19% Micron (MU): +6.50% Ciena Corp (CIEN): +6.09% First Solar (FSLR): +6.06% Nebius NV (NBIS): +5.11% Some of the biggest losers (Losses of 5% or More) Whirlpool (WHR): -8.59% Shake Shack (SHAK): -8.08% Shopify (SHOP): -7.13% Intuitive Surgical (ISRG): -6.67% Target (TGT): -5.43% Super Micro Computer (SMCI): -5.23% Dell Technologies (DELL): -5.16% Celsius Holdings (CELH): -5.11% The market wrestled with the prospects for success or failure from the Middle East. China is also a focus of this week as President Trump along with a number of corporate executives and government officials will be meeting with China's Xi along with other China officials starting Wednesday. Tomorrow the CPI data will be released with expectations for the headline to rise by 0.6% while the core (ex food and energy) is expected to rise by 0.3%. This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.