US stocks close at record highs after Joe Biden becomes 46th President of the United States

• US stocks closed at record highs on Wednesday after Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.
• Tech stocks led the market higher following a stronger than expected earnings report from Netflix.
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US stocks closed at record highs on Wednesday following the $4

The stock market was led higher by technology stocks following a stronger than expected earnings report from Netflix that sent shares soaring nearly 20%.

The video-streaming company said it expected positive free-cash-flow generation going forward and would begin to stop relying on the debt markets to fuel its content lineup; it could eventually explore a stock-buyback program.

Here's where US indexes stood at the 4:00 p.m. ET close on Wednesday:

• $4: 3,851.85, up 1.39%
• $4: 31,188.38, up 0.83% (257.86 points)
• $4: 13,457.25, up 1.97%

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The enthusiasm for tech shares on Wednesday $4

$4 that beat analysts' expectations, driven by the firm's trading unit and wealth-management arm.

Popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum pulled back on Wednesday after Janet Yellen, President-Joe Biden's nominee for treasury secretary, $4 because they are mainly used for illicit activities in a transactional sense.

$4 after its founder, Jack Ma, resurfaced in a videoconference. Ma had not been seen in public for months as Chinese regulators clamped down on the Ant Group initial public offering and Alibaba's selling practices.

Famed short-seller Jim Chanos said he $4 from shares, which will limit his downside potential.

Oil prices were mixed. $4 jumped 0.12%, to $53.10 per barrel. $4, oil's international benchmark, declined 0.05%, to $55.87 per barrel.

$4 rose as much as 1.57%, to $1,869.10 per ounce.

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