PANews reported on April 18 that, according to Cailian Press, the three major U.S. stock indexes all closed higher. The Nasdaq rose 1.52%, marking its 13th consecutive trading day of gains and setting a new record, the longest winning streak since 2013, with a cumulative increase of 6.84% this week. The S&P 500 rose 1.2%, also a record high, with a cumulative increase of 4.54% this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.79%, with a cumulative increase of 3.19% this week.

Popular tech stocks generally rose, with Tesla up over 3%, Apple and Broadcom up over 2%, and Nvidia, Google, and Meta up over 1%. Travel services and cryptocurrency stocks led the gains, with COIN (Coinbase) up 3.26% and MSTR (Strategy) up 11.80%.