Wall St ends sharply higher as Mideast tensions cool


The Dow rose 507.24 points, or 1.19%, to 43,089.02, the S&P 500 gained 67.01 points, or 1.11%, to 6,092.18 and the Nasdaq gained 281.56 points, or 1.43%, to 19,912.53.

NEW YORK: US stocks rallied more than 1% on Tuesday as investors welcomed a fragile truce with Israel and Iran while parsing Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's congressional testimony for clues regarding the US central bank's path forward.

All three major US stock indices closed with their second straight session of solid gains following US missile strikes on Iran's uranium enrichment assets.

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