Shares of banks and other financial institutions ticked up amid confidence in the outlook for economic activity.

Treasury yields rose, reflecting economic optimism ahead of inflation data.

"[People] were expecting this big hard landing [and] it's been far from it, even the opposite," said J.D. Joyce, president of Houston financial advisory Joyce Wealth Managment.


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