The ins and outs of membership in the 30-company group that represents success across industries and reflects stock market conditions.

Also know that, unlike the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq Composite, the Dow is weighted by price rather than by market cap. Although Nvidia has an outsized influence on the movements of the cap-weighted benchmarks, at current prices NVDA stock will be as important to the DJIA as, roughly, 3M ( MMM ).

A record earnings report from Palantir helped push tech higher, with the stock soaring ... Tesla closing 3.5% higher. Nvidia's rally on Tuesday helped the chip titan surpass Apple as the world's most valuable company by market cap, at $3.42 trillion ...

By Koh Gui Qing, Lawrence White NEW YORK (Reuters) -World stocks rose and Treasury yields retreated from early highs on Tuesday as markets awaited early indications of the outcome of a knife-edge U.S.