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Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, October 2nd.

I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks rallied today, even as the federal government shutdown entered its second day.

The NASDAQ led the major indexes higher, rising 0.4%, lifted by a global surge in semiconductor stocks.

The Dow was up 0.2 percent,

and the S&P was up about a tenth of a percentage point. All three indexes closed at new records.

Investors seemed to set aside concerns about the shutdown, with many looking ahead to the start

of earning season in two weeks. Among individual companies, shares of Fair

Isaac soared 18% after the credit analytics company said it would license its scores directly

to resaleers. The move sent stock in credit bureaus, Equifax, and TransUnion sharply lower.

Shares of Tesla fell 5%, despite the electric vehicle maker reporting a surprising 7.4% increase year-over-year in global deliveries, reversing previous declines.

Stalantis shares climbed 8% after the auto conglomerate posted a jump in third quarter U.S. sales, and Starbucks stock rose 3% after the coffee chain announced it was

raising its quarterly dividend to 62 cents a share from 61 cents. 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 editor. We'll have a lot more coverage of the

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