Stan ChoeJul 11, 2026 – 5.37amUS stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.The S&P 500 rose 0.4 per cent and was on track to close out its fourth winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 190 points, or 0.4 per cent, with a little less than an hour remaining in trading, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3 per cent higher.APSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles