Stocks burst higher, S&P 500 at record on vaccine hopes

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world are exploding higher Monday, sending Wall Street back to record heights, on a surge of hope following encouraging data for a potential COVID-19 vaccine.  The S&P 500 jumped 3.2% in early trading and is is on track to close at a record for the first time in more than two months. Markets around the world were already climbing before the encouraging early data on Pfizer’s potential vaccine on relief that the limbo created by the long, mar