US indexes surged Tuesday as a jump in tech stocks pulled indexes higher as traders headed toward the end of the US presidential election. A record earnings report from Palantir helped push tech higher, with the stock ... company by market cap, at $3. ...

Rising technology stocks are sending the Nasdaq composite toward a record on Tuesday, but trading is mixed along the rest of Wall Street as homebuilders, Ford Motor and others sink following their latest profit reports.

Japan shares closed lower, in line with most Asian peers, with electronics and technology-related stocks weighing on the benchmark index. The Nikkei Stock Average fell 2.6% to close at 38053.67. Hitachi dropped 6.

Stocks climbed Tuesday while Treasuries were mixed and the dollar fell in the last trading session before votes are tallied in a US presidential race with far-reaching implications for the economy. Neither the size of the moves nor volume indicated strong conviction on the outcome of a contest that polls continue to put at a dead heat.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Tuesday as technology and chips stocks gained, while investors braced for volatile trading over the next few sessions as voting began in a tightly contested U.S. presidential election.