The buck's latest surge comes as rising Treasury yields attract funds, and so-called 'U.S. exceptionalism' - a strong economy containing many of the world's biggest and most successful companies - encourages global investors to buy American assets.

Shares of NVIDIA Corp. NVDA slipped 0.02% to $140.11 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.16% to 5,918.25 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.

Nvidia stock (NVDA) hit a new record high on Jan. 7 of $153.13 during intraday trading but eventually closed down over 6.2% as CEO Jensen Huang outlined the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) endeavors in his keynote speech at CES 2025.