Stock Market Update

[BRIEFING.COM] Widening gains across today's top-performing sectors have the S&P 500 (+0.3%), Nasdaq Composite (+0.6%), and DJIA (+0.1%) charting new session highs. 

At this point, new session highs for the S&P 500 equate to new record high intraday levels, with the index crossing the 6,500 level for the first time in history as it looks to surpass yesterday's record closing high of 6,481.40. 

The information technology sector (+0.9%) now challenges the communication services sector (+0.9%) as the best-performing S&P 500 sector today, as NVIDIA (NVDA 181.09, -0.51, -0.28%) climbs closer to its baseline after a 2.5% slide this morning.

Elsewhere in the technology sector, The Financial Times reports that the Trump administration's stake in Intel (INTC 24.90, +0.04, +0.18%) was designed to block the company from selling its manufacturing unit.