text: The Dow industrials on Tuesday traded above 19,000 for the first time ever--a milestone level for the blue-chip benchmark. The ascent for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.11% which carved out a fresh record close of 18,956.69 less than 24 hours ago, comes as three other major stock-market benchmarks also hit historic highs, including the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.04% which was trading above 2,200, the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.09% and the small-cap index Russell 2000 RUT, +0.03% A multisession rally for equities comes on the heels of President-elect Donald Trump's surprising victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump's proposals to deregulate certain markets, including banking, and rev up investing in the countries worn-out bridges, tunnels and roads has delivered a jolt to the broader equity market. MarketWatch's William Watts touches on some of the stats related to the Dow's historic move in this piece. ||||| A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. Chinese shares rallied Monday, leading gains in most other Asian markets higher as Beijing guided the yuan... (Associated Press) 
   
   A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. Chinese shares rallied Monday, leading gains in most other Asian markets higher as Beijing guided the yuan lower again, extending a decline that has picked up pace since Donald Trump's U.S. election victory.... (Associated Press) 
   
   LONDON (AP) — Global stocks rose on Tuesday, buoyed by Wall Street's close at a record high and hopes that OPEC will support the price of oil with a production cut. 
   
   KEEPING SCORE: France's CAC 40 added 0.8 percent to 4,563, while Germany's DAX was up 0.6 percent at 10,746. Britain's FTSE 100 was 1.1 percent higher at 6,849. U.S. shares were set to add to their record levels, with Dow and S&P 500 futures both up 0.3 percent, as optimism continued over the potential boost to the economy from President-elect Donald Trump's policies. 
   
   OPEC LOOMING: Expectations are growing that oil ministers will agree to limit production at a meeting of the OPEC oil cartel on Nov. 30 in Vienna, Austria. That's helped buoy oil prices in markets. Benchmark U.S. crude was down 7 cents to $48.17 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, having jumped $1.88 on Monday. Brent crude, the international standard, rose 13 cents to $49.03. 
   
   ANALYST TAKE: "Investors are trying to strike the right balance between positioning for a major dose of U.S. fiscal stimulus and not getting too committed, given the uncertainty surrounding what policies the new Trump Administration will actually implement," Margaret Yang, a market analyst at CMC Markets, said in a commentary. 
   
   RENMINBI RETREAT: Chinese authorities set the yuan's official "parity rate," known as the fix, for the country's tightly controlled currency at 6.8779 on Tuesday, breaking a 12-day losing streak. The yuan, also known as the renminbi, has been weakening as the dollar has surged in value against other currencies. 
   
   ASIA'S DAY: Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index added 0.3 percent to finish at 18,162.94 after dipping briefly following a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that set off a small tsunami but caused minor damage and injuries. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.9 percent to 1,983.47 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 1.4 percent to 22,678.07. Australia's S&P ASX/200 added 1.2 percent to 5,413.30 and the Shanghai Composite Index climbed 0.9 percent to 3,248.35. Shares in Southeast Asia and Taiwan also gained. 
   
   CURRENCIES: The dollar rose to 110.84 yen from 110.43 yen on Monday. The euro edged down to $1.0629 from $1.0638. ||||| Global stocks gained Tuesday after benchmark U.S. indexes closed at record highs on Monday, as the rise in oil prices continued to sustain the post-election rally. 
   
   The Stoxx Europe 600 was up 0.7% in early trade, led by higher by commodity-related shares. Futures markets pointed to opening gains on Wall Street after the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite and Russell 2000 indexes all climbed to record highs...
target: – MarketWatch credits "Trump-induced euphoria" in its headline: The Dow on Tuesday hit 19,000 for the first time at open, a milestone that followed Monday's record close of 18,957. The S&P 500 also passed 2,200. The AP earlier reported that global stocks rose Tuesday, buoyed by hopes that OPEC will support the price of oil with a production cut. The Wall Street Journal reports oil prices continue to hang around a three-week high in anticipation of a possible end-of-month OPEC deal. "Rising commodity prices do help," one senior portfolio manager with Robeco tells the Journal. "But I think there is also a bit of an upbeat mood about the [Donald] Trump election."