NEW YORK (AFP) - Wall Street stocks bulldozed to another fresh record Friday (Dec 9), with all three major indices jumping to new records for the second straight session.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 0.7 per cent higher to 19,756.85, closing in on the 20,000 threshold.

The broad-based S&P 500 gained 0.6 per cent to 2,259.53, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 0.5 per cent to 5,444.50.