Wall Street was awash in an ocean of green ink in the morning after President-elect Donald Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris on election night.
In the post-election aftermath, the leading stock market indexes extended their overnight rally.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, for example, surged about 1,200 points, to above 43,000. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index advanced more than 300 points, while the benchmark S&P 500 Index picked up 2 percent.
Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of the social media platform Truth Social, surged midweek. Shares, which trade under the ticker DJT, climbed 28 percent, to above $43. Year to date, the stock has risen more than 100 percent….