Wall Street's main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow closing at their highest levels in more than a month as investors assessed Donald Trump's first actions as U.S. president and were encouraged that he did not start his second term with blanket tariff increases.

The Nasdaq led gains among Wall Street's main indexes on Wednesday, as investors cheered streaming giant Netflix's strong quarterly performance and President Donald Trump's multi-billion dollar support to bolster AI infrastructure.

Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

Wall Street’s so-called fear gauge was down Tuesday, as the U.S. stock market staged a broad rally in its first day of trading under the new White House administration. The Cboe Volatility Index was falling around 4.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting higher following a mostly encouraging batch of profit reports from big companies.

Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow at a more than one-month high, as investors assessed President Donald Trump’s executive orders after taking office and awaited his first move on trade policy. In morning trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 423 points, or 1%, to 43,911.

Trump’s executive orders included overhauls to U.S. trade policy and declaring a national emergency at the southern border.

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Textron’s (NYSE:TXT) stock on Wednesday fell as much as 6.4% after the aerospace, defense and industrial goods company reported revenue that was less than estimated by Wall Street analysts. Fourth quarter net income declined 29% amid the disruption from a strike earlier in the year to $141 million,