 Stocks finishing higher with both the Nasdaq and S&P 500 posting new record closes in light trading volume ahead of Wednesday's shortened trading session and the July 4th holiday on Thursday. Investors digested comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who said during a panel discussion in Portugal that inflation is easing, but declined to say whether he was setting the table for a September rate cut. Make it cap tech stocks were the biggest gainers with Apple, Microsoft and Amazon notching record highs.