Stock market today: Wall Street climbs to push its winning streak to 8 days, longest of the year [Video]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed Monday as Wall Street pulls closer to its record heights following its roller coaster of a summer.

The S&P 500 rallied 1% for its eighth straight gain. That clinched its longest winning streak since November and followed up on the index’s best week of the year. It’s back to within 1% of its all-time high after falling close to 10% below the mark earlier this month.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 236 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 1.4%.

Advanced Micro Devices helped drive the market after saying it would buy ZT Systems, a supplier in the cloud computing and artificial-intelligence industries, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $4.9 billion. The chip company’s stock rose 4.5%.

Another chip company, Nvidia, was the single strongest force pushing the S&P 500 upward after it rose 4.4%. It’s clawed back most of its sharp losses from earlier in the summer, which …