U.S. stock market early trading: Gold stocks and Chinese concept stocks rise broadly, NVIDIA up about 2%

The Dow Jones rose by 0.2%, the S&P 500 index rose by 0.3%, and the Nasdaq rose by 0.2%. NVIDIA rose by about 2%, after Meta agreed to deploy "millions" of NVIDIA chips in the coming years. Gold stocks generally rose, with Pan American Silver up about 2%, Coeur Mining up about 3%, and Kinross Gold up about 1%. Chinese concept stocks generally rose, with PDD up about 2%