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Stock Market Today: New S&P, Nasdaq Highs Thanks to Apple, Nvidia

The stock market lumbered through another tame session at the broader-index level Thursday, but a few exciting individual moves in Big Tech were just enough to get the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite back into record territory.

Initial unemployment claims for the week ended Nov. 13 didn't seem to affect stocks much. The week's 268,000 filings were just barely more than expected (260,000), but also slightly lower than last week's upwardly revised 269,000.

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