Wall Street's main indexes all ended higher on Monday, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite making it three straight wins, aided by gains by many of the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks on a holiday-thinned trading day.

Asia-Pacific markets trade mostly higher on Tuesday, followed a rally in U.S. tech shares that boosted Wall Street overnight. Further gains were limited by the shortened trading day today, ahead of the Christmas holidays.

The S&P 500 posted two new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 26 new highs and 43 new lows.

Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 ended 0.7% higher after having been down 0.5% in the early going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also recovered from an early slide to eke out a 0.2% gain. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 1%.

NEW YORK — Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week.