Some of the biggest winners were mega-cap tech stocks, with Tesla up by 6% while Broadcom, Netflix, and Amazon each gained about 2%.

Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq scored four straight sessions of gains, with the S&P 500 taking its winning streak to three sessions. Lisa Bernhard has more.

Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week. The Standard & Poor's 500 index ended 0.7% higher after having been down 0.5% early in the session.

Stocks were wavering to start the holiday-shortened week as Wall Street hoped for a Santa Claus rally to lift the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 55 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 was up 0.

Wall Street's major market indices have kicked off the holiday-shortened trading week on a mixed note as investors ready themselves for the 2025 trading year. As the trading day progresses, the financial community has seen a downward shift in the blue-chip Dow (DJI) as the index dipped 0.