Stocks New York: record series does not end thanks to the prospect of corona aid package

The prospect of another multi-billion dollar aid package for the coronavirus-plagued US economy set new course records for Wall Street on Wednesday. The leading index Dow Jones Industrial and the market-wide S&P 500 reached further historical highs in early trading and continued the rally before the end of the year. The stock market barometers on the technology-heavy Nasdaq, however, lagged somewhat.

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