Strong financial performance of US companies drove US stocks to close overnight

Although investors believe that the Federal Reserve will maintain high interest rates for a longer period of time, the strong corporate earnings season supported the market, and the three major Wall Street stock market indices all closed higher today.

$Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$Up 146.43 points, or 0.38%, to close 38386.09 points.

$S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$Up 16.21 points, or 0.32%, to close 5116.17 points.

$NASDAQ(NASDAQ.US)$Up 55.18 points, or 0.35%, to close at 15983.08 points.

As optimism rises, I wonder if it will continue to drive Malaysian stocks to continue to rise?

$FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index(.KLSE.MY)$