The assessment of the statement as 'likely_true' with high confidence is based almost entirely on the single most authoritative and relevant source provided. The first source, the official Nasdaq website's historical data for the NASDAQ-100 (NDX), is described as providing the exact primary data (open, high, low, close) required to verify both claims in the statement: a 'two-day period of increase' and the index's value 'approaching its all-time record high'. Given its high authority (0.95) and relevance (0.95), this source is definitive.Conversely, the other provided sources offer very little to challenge this. Most are irrelevant, focusing on individual stocks (Netflix, Teledyne, AAR, Alphabet), different market indicators (PE ratio), or unrelated commodities (natural gas). The few sources that mention the Nasdaq 100's performance are outdated. For example, the article mentioning the index closing lower is from a week ago, and the one mentioning 'weekly losses logged' is from six days ago. In financial markets, information from a week prior is not sufficient to disprove a claim about the most recent two-day period. Therefore, the potentially contradictory evidence is too weak and outdated to be significant.Because the most credible and relevant source is presented as having the exact data to confirm the statement, and there is no strong, current evidence to the contrary, the statement is highly likely to be true.