US stocks hit records again thanks to tech giants

Apple and other big-name technology stocks got back to their winning ways on Monday and helped drive US indexes once again to record heights.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 20.31 points, or 0.8%, to 2,453.46 and surpassed its old record, set nearly a week ago, by half a percent. The Dow Jones industrial average added 144.71 points, or 0.7%, to 21,528.99, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 87.25, or 1.4%, to 6,239.01.