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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Defense stocks rocket higher as Trump victory, GOP sweep spur spending hopes</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Defense stocks surged Wednesday, with a number of them running up to record highs, as Donald Trump’s election victory and the Republican sweep of Congress spurred hopes of increased spending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> The iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense exchange-traded fund
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<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(58, 161, 80);" class=""><b class="">ITA, +0.60%</b></span></a> powered up 4.3% to a record close, with 34 of 37 equity components trading higher. That outperformed the broader stock market,
as the S&P 500 index <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx?mod=MW_story_quote" class="">
<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(188, 69, 80);" class=""><b class="">SPX, -0.27%</b></span></a> rose 1.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(188, 69, 80);" class=""><b class="">DJIA, -0.02%</b></span></a> tacked on 1.4%. See
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</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Among the companies with the largest market capitalizations, shares of Northrop Grumman Corp.
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<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(58, 161, 80);" class=""><b class="">NOC, +0.49%</b></span></a> surged 5.4%, General Dynamics Corp.
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<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(58, 161, 80);" class=""><b class="">GD, +0.29%</b></span></a> ran up 5.4% and Raytheon Co.
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<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(188, 69, 80);" class=""><b class="">RTN, -0.14%</b></span></a> climbed 7.5%, with closing at all-time highs.</span></div>
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