: Dow up 550 points in final hour of trading

Stocks were sharply higher and trading near session highs with less than 50 minutes to go in Monday’s trading session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA was up 552 points, or 1.7%. The S&P 500 SPX advanced 1.3%, while the Nasdaq Composite COMP jumped 1.2%, after both indexes last week fell into correction territory. All three major indexes remain on track for monthly losses.

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