Stock Indexes Notch New Records to Cap a Turbulent Quarter

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both end the quarter at new highs. Plus: Robinhood Markets shares surged after it launched new cryptocurrency services. And shares of building-products distributor GMS jumped after Home Depot won a bidding war to buy the company. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5	Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, June 30th.
0:36.9	I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.6	Stocks capped a turbulent quarter by notching new records, with both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ closing at all-time highs.
0:47.1	The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 276 points to close at 44,095.
0:52.7	The S&P 500 gained 32 points, and the NASDAQ advanced 96 points.
0:58.5	The quarter was shaped by a huge stock market drawdown over President Trump's trade war and the
1:04.0	rebound that followed. Trade news continued to affect markets today as the U.S. and Canada
1:08.8	resumed trade talks following the decision by America's
1:11.7	northern neighbor to rescind its digital services tax. Elsewhere in Washington, the Senate's
1:17.7	voterrama on Trump's big beautiful bill is still underway as various GOP factions seek to push the
1:23.3	bill in their favored direction. But even if the Senate passes the budget bill, getting the measure
1:27.9	to Trump by Republicans' self-imposed Friday deadline will still require another vote from the House.
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