Among Tuesday’s winners are processor manufacturer AMD, which rose 4.2 percent, and Google’s owner company Alphabet, which rose 2.6 percent.
It was worse for the auction site Ebay and the vaccine manufacturer Moderna, which lost 4.7 and 4.0 percent, respectively.
Investors are still waiting ahead of the negotiations between Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress on raising the country’s debt ceiling. The Treasury Department has warned of “catastrophic” consequences if the US could not pay its bills, which could lead to higher interest rates, among other things.