U.S. stocks traded higher midway through Monday’s session, with the S&P 500 up 1.16% at 7,739.48. The Dow rose 0.45% to 51,917.33, while the Nasdaq gained 1.77% to 26,992.96. Communication services shares led sector gains with a 3% advance, while energy stocks fell 1.9%. Intel rose about 10% as technology and semiconductor shares benefited from a risk-on market backdrop. Greenland Mines surged 146% to $7.01 and Greenland Energy jumped 133% to $2.80 as U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security headlines brought renewed attention to Greenland-linked strategic assets and underground resources. Priority Technology Holdings gained 33% to $7.76 after announcing an all-cash take-private deal (a transaction that removes a company from public markets). On the downside, Telix Pharmaceuticals fell 8% to $11.54 after agreeing to acquire Germany’s ITM Isotope for about $1.65 billion. Novo Nordisk dropped 8% to $39.64 after releasing topline results from the Phase 3 REIMAGINE 5 and REDEFINE 9 trials of once-weekly Cagrisema, combining Cagrilintide and Semaglutide. Turning Point Brands declined 8% to $62.72 after naming David E. Glazek as CEO and reiterating fiscal 2026 net sales guidance of $260 million to $270 million. Oil fell 4.1% to $96.16, gold slipped 0.9% to $4,385.30, silver eased 0.5% to $66.805 and copper rose 1.5% to $6.7940. European shares advanced, led by a 0.9% rise in the eurozone’s STOXX 600. Asian markets also closed higher, while the Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to -0.04 in August from a revised +0.08 in July.