All 3 major Wall Street indexes hit record highs after opening

The New York Stock Exchange.
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All three major Wall Street indexes hit record highs Monday morning at the opening bell.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 306 points, or 1 percent, surpassing 30,500 in the process, CNBC reports. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.