Markets broke higher with steady buying led by the S&P 500, improving breadth, renewed strength in megacap tech, and concurrent gains in gold and silver, signaling favorable risk-reward into year-end.

US GDP utterly crushed it in Q3, and that was following Q2 when output supposedly was well more than expected, so two quarters in a row of booming numbers.

Nike shares rose more than 2% in premarket trading after Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed an open-market stock purchase.