S&P 500 eyes 7,000 as November kicks off — can the market’s hottest month deliver again?

Investors are betting that trend could hold again. On Monday, the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.6% as traders piled back into artificial intelligence stocks after a wave of major AI announcements. The S&P 500 added 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 157 points, or 0.3%, pressured by a fall in UnitedHealth. Tech giants led the charge. Amazon surged 4% after announcing a $38 billion deal with OpenAI to expand its AI infrastructure using Nvidia shares extended gains after Microsoft secured Trump adminis ...