Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, October 6th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks ended mixed with two major indexes hitting fresh highs. The NASDAQ rose 0.7% to a record,

and the S&P 500 gained 0.4%, a new peak, while the Dow dipped a tenth of a percent to end the day.

Chipmaker advanced micro devices was a major driver, with its stock soaring 24 percent after it unveiled a massive computing deal with OpenAI.

A big bank merger also boosted sentiment, as shares of Comerica surged about 14 percent on news it would be acquired

by fifth-third bank for $10.9 billion. Elsewhere, bond yields, gold, and Bitcoin all climbed higher.

Among other individual companies, Tesla's stock rose 5.5% as the electric vehicle company teased

a product launch announcement coming Tuesday.

Sony shares gained nearly 4% lifted by a broad rally in Japanese stocks, after Sanay Takki-Iichi,

a supporter of fiscal stimulus, won the leadership election of the country's ruling party.

And Coinbase shares edged 2% higher after Bitcoin notched a new record price above

$125,000 over the weekend. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this

episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an

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