NEW YORK — Wall Street swept aside earlier macroeconomic anxieties on Thursday, staging an aggressive, broad-based relief rally powered by resurgent institutional demand for artificial intelligence hardware, specialized cloud compute providers, and leading semiconductor innovators.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite spearheaded the charge, leaping 1.60 percent to close at 25,466.85 and wiping away virtually all of the losses incurred during the preceding session's inflation-driven wobble. The benchmark S&P 500 advanced 1.31 percent to finish comfortably above the key psychological threshold at 7,618.32, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 258.40 points, or 0.49 percent, to settle at 52,486.20.
Catalyzing the aggressive risk-on sentiment was an explosive quarterly earnings report and upward guidance revision from specialized AI cloud provider CoreWeave, whose shares surged nearly 25 percent during the session. The company reported triple-digit revenue growth and disclosed multi-billion-dollar backlog commitments from enterprise and sovereign clients seeking high-density GPU cluster capacity, effectively rebutting lingering market skepticism regarding the sustainability of global generative AI infrastructure capital expenditures.
The positive read-across rippled swiftly through the entire semiconductor complex. Memory chipmaker Micron Technology surged 11.9 percent on accelerating shipments of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) modules, while equipment manufacturers Applied Materials and Lam Research recorded substantial multi-percent gains. Even Nvidia, which had experienced after-hours volatility earlier in the week amid board-level executive scrutiny, stabilized firmly in positive territory as institutional funds aggressively bought the dip.
Fixed-income markets also provided a more supportive backdrop for equity valuations. After surging following Wednesday’s Consumer Price Index report, benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note yields leveled off at 4.43 percent, easing fears of an uncontrolled spike in sovereign borrowing costs. Meanwhile, commodity markets reflected rotational dynamics as spot gold prices slipped roughly 1 percent toward $3,990 per ounce, illustrating a tactical shift from defensive hedges back into growth-oriented equity assets.
Portfolio managers noted that market breadth improved substantially compared to previous narrow rallies, with over 78 percent of S&P 500 constituents closing in positive territory. Industrials, advanced manufacturing, and financial services participated in the advance, reflecting underlying corporate earnings resilience even as markets prepare for the Federal Reserve’s upcoming December interest rate deliberations.
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