The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 426.16 points, or 0.97%, to finish the session at 44,296.51, while the S&P 500 gained 0.35% to close at 5,969.34, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq inched up 0.16% to end the day at 19,003.65.

The Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF was rising 0.6% on Friday morning at $266.77, putting the fund on pace to potentially book its first record close since November 2021, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

Fundstrat's Tom Lee called Nvidia's earnings release a "clearing event" for the stock market and that investors' "animal spirits" are rising.

Alphabet shares fell Thursday following news that the Department of Justice is proposing Google divest its Chrome browser to end its search monopoly.

The Department of Justice requests the tech giant to get rid of its browser. Alphabet - the owner of, among other assets, the Google search engine, the video social network YouTube, and the Chrome browser - lost $100 billion in the stock market yesterday after the US Department of Justice requested that it divest its Chrome browser and make a series of changes to its operations that,