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Investors held onto hopes that the U.S. and Japan’s trade agreement could lead to a tariff breakthrough with other countries, and pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite to fresh record highs.

Retail investors have begun to pile into speculative bets on small-cap companies in a buildup that resembles the meme stock ...