All three of Wall Street's main indexes registered record closing highs for a second straight day on Friday, with trading volume hitting its highest level since April, as FedEx rose after upbeat earnings.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq notched their third straight week of gains, boosted by the Federal Reserve's first rate cut of 2025 on Wednesday and indications of further monetary policy easing.

Market Snapshot

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 172.85 points, or 0.37%, to 46,315.27, the S&P 500 gained 32.40 points, or 0.49%, to 6,664.36 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 160.75 points, or 0.72%, to 22,631.48.

Market Movers

Intel fell 3.2%. Shares surged 23% to $30.57 on Thursday, marking a 52-week high and the largest same-day percent increase since Oct. 29, 1987, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The sharp gains came after Nvidia purchased $5 billion of the chip maker's stock. In a note Friday, Citi Research analyst Christopher Danely downgraded the shares to Sell from Neutral, citing Intel's lofty valuation and the belief that its foundry business "has minimal chance to succeed."

Nvidia rose 0.2% after wavering throughout the session. The stock closed up 3.5% at $176.24 on Thursday to snap a three-session losing streak. Shares of the leading maker of artificial-intelligence chips have risen 31% this year, though they have lagged behind peers like Micron Technology, which has gained nearly three times as much.

Micron Technology , meanwhile, fell 3.7% on Friday to end a 12-day winning streak, which was its longest on record. Shares of the memory chip maker rose 5.6% on Thursday and set a record high of $168.89.

FedEx rose 2.3% after the logistics giant reported fiscal first-quarter adjusted earnings of $3.83 a share, topping analysts' estimates of $3.62, while revenue of $22.2 billion also beat Wall Street forecasts. Domestic package volumes rose 5%, FedEx said, while domestic package revenue grew 8% from a year earlier. The company said it expects fiscal 2026 revenue growth of between 4% and 6% versus analysts' estimates of 1%, and adjusted earnings of between $17.20 and $19 a share, compared with Wall Street projections of $18.36.

Shares of rival $UPS fell 1.2%. The company terminated a plan to buy Estafeta, the Mexican small package provider.

Apple finished 3.2% higher at $245.50. Analysts at J.P. Morgan hiked their price target on the tech giant to $280 from $255 in a note Friday, the same day the iPhone 17 went on sale at Apple Store locations worldwide.

Home builder Lennar dropped 4.3% after posting fiscal third-quarter earnings that missed analysts' forecasts. Lennar earned $2.29 a share in the period, or $2 excluding mark-to-market gains on technology investments, on revenue of $8.8 billion. Analysts had expected earnings of $2.10 on revenue of just under $9 billion. Lennar's gross margin, a closely watched metric at a time when home builders are cutting prices and offering buyer incentives to sell homes, was 17.5%, shy of consensus estimates that called for 17.8%.

Electric-vehicle maker Tesla gained 2.2%. The stock ended Thursday's session down 2.1%, putting an end to a winning streak of seven trading days. Coming into Friday, Tesla shares have gained nearly 25% this month, or 5.3% this week, boosted by a report the company settled a California lawsuit over its driver-assistance technology, CEO Elon Musk buying shares for the first time since 2020, and an interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Tesla also received an upgrade to Outperform from Neutral from analysts at Baird, and Goldman Sachs raised its price target on the stock to $395 from $300.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. declined 1.2%. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's commercial banking subsidiary, SMBC, agreed to increase its equity ownership in Jefferies to up to 20% in the open market, from about 15%.

Newmont Mining rose 4.3%. The company said it had sold its entire 13% ownership stake in fellow gold miner Orla Mining as part of an ongoing effort to shed equity holdings and focus on stock buybacks. Orla Mining fell 5.2%.

Netskope, Inc. , the AI cybersecurity-software company, surged 9.8% to $24.70. The stock opened at $23 a share in its trading debut Thursday and closed at $22.49, up 18% from the initial public offering price of $19.

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