U.S. equities closed mostly higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 edging up to a record close at 2,510–up 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up 0.2% to 22,381, supported by a sharp rise in shares of component McDonald’s Corp . Meanwhile the Dow Jones Transportation Average , a gauge of railroad, trucking companies, finished at an all-time high, along the the small-cap focused Russell 2000 , for the second straight session. The Nasdaq Composite Index, however, ended the day flat at 6,453, as technology shares lagged behind. McDonald’s jumped 2.2% after an analyst upgrade. Meanwhile, streaming-media company Roku Inc soared 57.79% in its first day as a publicly traded company initial public offering at $14 per share on Wednesday.
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