Solid earnings from health care companies helped power broad gains for stocks on Wall Street Wednesday and pushed the benchmark S&P 500 within range of an all-time high.The S&P 500, a proxy for the health of retirement and college savings accounts, climbed 0.4 percent for its sixth gain in a row. It closed at 4,536.19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4 percent to 35,609.34 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell less than 0.1 percent to end the session at 15,121.68.“The reason we’re seeing this rally over the last week is that company earnings are looking really good,” said Sylvia Jablonski, chief investment officer at Defiance ETFs. “Most companies are managing inflationary pressures and pricing issues and that’s helping to alleviate concerns about overvaluation and inflation.”
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