Stocks posted moderate gains Tuesday, staging a recovery after stocks and bonds fell Monday evening in overnight trading on news that President Trump publicly fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in a post on Truth Social. The Dow Jones industrial average advanced 0.3 percent while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each rose 0.4 percent. Leading the recovery in stocks were Nvidia, which will be releasing its quarterly results Wednesday, and Eli Lilly, which released late-stage trial data for its experimental weight loss pill.

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