U.S. Stock Market Close: All Three Major Indices Gain Over 1%, Nasdaq Extends Winning Streak to 13 Sessions, Hitting New Record High

2026-04-18 by admin

BlockBeats news, on April 18, U.S. stocks closed on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average preliminarily closing up 1.79%, the S&P 500 up 1.2%, and the Nasdaq up 1.52%. The Nasdaq extended its gains for 13 consecutive trading days, setting a new high and marking its longest winning streak since January 1992.

Apple (AAPL.O) closed up 2.5%, Tesla (TSLA.O) up 3%, Meta Platforms (META.O) up 1.7%. Netflix (NFLX.O) fell nearly 10%.

PANews, June 22 – According to Blockaid monitoring, Taiko’s ERC20 Vault on Ethereum was attacked, resulting in a loss exceeding $1 million. The root cause of the vulnerability lies in a flaw in the source signal proof verification of the Taiko cross-chain bridge, where a fabricated message proof was accepted as valid on Ethereum L1 without a corresponding legitimate MessageSent event on the Taiko source chain. This allowed the attacker to register and extract fraudulent cross-chain messages, thereby releasing assets from the ERC20 Vault without authorization.