US equity markets advanced after another choppy session following another flurry of tariff-related headlines, but settled well off their session highs - Dow rose +312-points or +0.78% to 40,524.79. Apple Inc rose +2.21%, paring an earlier gain of as much as +7.5% after the US administration that some consumer electronics and computer hardware would be exempt from the reciprocal 125% trade tariffs placed on China. Nvidia Corp (down -0.20%) said it would for the first time make artificial-intelligence (AI) supercomputers entirely in the United States. Nvidia said it expects to produce up to US$500B in AI infrastructure in the U.S. with its partners within the next four years.
