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guard your card.com. Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, July 3rd. I'm Anthony

Bansy for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stock set another round of records in a shortened trading day today after a stronger than

expected jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 344 points, or 0.8%, to close at 44,829. The SMP 500 was up 52 points or 8 tenths of a

percent, and the NASDAQ added 208 points, or 1%. Some standout stocks today? Data Dog, a maker of

monitoring and analytics programs, is set to join the S&P 500 on July 9th.

It's replacing Juniper Networks, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Datadog stock jumped nearly 15%.

Shares of two of the world's top developers of chip design software jumped after the U.S.

lifted some curbs on exports of the tech to China.

Synopsis climbed 4.9% and cadence design rose 5.1%.

We've reported that activist investor's starboard value has built up a 9% stake in TripAdvisor.

The online travel review company stock soared nearly 17%.

And electric vehicle maker Lucid said it delivered more vehicles last quarter.

Shares closed up 5.4%.

Meanwhile, President Trump's sprawling tax and spending bill has passed the House,

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