The Dow opened up 0.35%, the S&P 500 rose 0.82%, and the Nasdaq rose 1.22%. A technical glitch that plagued Nasdaq premarket trading for nearly three hours has been resolved.
Alphabet, Google's parent company, opened up 5.8% on reports that Apple is in talks with Google to allow Gemini to provide artificial intelligence support for the iPhone. Apple opened up 1.6%. Tesla opened 3.5% higher after the company announced over the weekend that all Model Y models will increase in price by $1,000 on April 1.
Nvidia's GTC 2024 conference will open within the next few days, and the stock price opened up 3.4%.
Among popular Chinese concept stocks, Xpeng Motors rose nearly 7%, NIO rose about 4%, Pinduoduo rose 3.8%, and Bilibili rose 1.6%.