🔰Today's Market Overview🔰
🔹The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 79.73 points, or 0.16%, to 48,442.41.
🔹The Nasdaq Composite rose 133.02 points, or 0.57%, to 23,561.84.
🔹The S&P 500 rose 31.30 points, or 0.46%, to 6,909.79.
📊U.S. stocks closed higher on Tuesday, led by technology stocks, with the S&P 500 hitting a record high. U.S. third-quarter GDP growth of 4.3% far exceeded expectations. Traders still expect two rate cuts by the Federal Reserve next year, but the likelihood of a rate cut at the January 28 meeting is low.
📌U.S. stock trading hours will be shortened this week due to holidays. The New York Stock Exchange will close early at 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday and will be closed on Thursday (Christmas Day). Trading will resume as normal on Friday.
Novo Nordisk shares received a much-needed end of the year boost as the Wegovy maker became the first drugmaker to secure approval of a GLP-1 pill for weight loss, in what one analyst called a "redemption for the investors" after the stock's worst year ever.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 pill gives the Danish pharmaceutical giant a head start over U.S. rival Eli Lilly, which has also filed for FDA approval for its oral weight loss drug orforglipron.
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