U.S. stocks closed modestly higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.04%, the S&P 500 rising 0.19% and the Nasdaq gaining 0.04%. The VIX, a measure of expected stock-market volatility, increased 0.31%. AI-related shares led the advance, including Accenture at 15.78%, Synopsys at 12.78%, Cadence at 6.22%, Atlassian at 5.92% and EPAM at 5.53%. MSX describes itself as a leading RWA (real-world asset) trading platform and has listed hundreds of RWA tokens tied to major U.S. stocks and ETFs, including Nvidia, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM and AMD.