Major stock indexes soared Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high, after the U.S. military seized Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro over the weekend.

In other news, defense stocks rallied on Thursday as President Donald Trump proposed a historic $1.5T defense budget for 2027. Companies Huntington Ingalls Industries ( HII) +5.2%, Lockheed Martin ( LMT) +3.4%, and L3Harris Technologies ( LHX) +5.1% were among the top performers of the sector.

Dow Jones and S&P 500 hold record highs as defense stocks surge 5% on Trump’s $1.5T military budget. Energy leads sectors up 2.5% while tech lags today.

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was beating other major stock indexes for the second day in a row, up nearly 0.9%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were each rising a modest 0.4%, according to FactSet data.

Major stock indexes closed mostly higher Friday to commence the new year of trading, although the Nasdaq's losing streak stretched to five sessions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit record all-time highs in 2025 with many of the components ending the year higher. Along with serving as a well-known barometer of overall market health, the index offers some of the top yielding blue-chip stocks.

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average finished Thursday higher, outperforming both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite as investors rotate away from tech stocks. The small-cap Russell 2000 also achi

The strong ISM Services PMI report provided additional support to stocks.

Investors may be surprised to learn which Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks were the best and worst performing in 2025. Here's the list.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dates back to May 26, 1896. Charles Dow, a journalist who helped start Dow Jones & Co.

Major stock indexes finished mixed Thursday, with the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rising but the tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled lower by data-storage shares.