Gemini 3 and Nvidia earnings frame QQQ's 2.22% advance, 0.71 points ahead of SPY

QQQ gained 2.22% and SPY rose 1.51%, leaving QQQ ahead by 0.71 percentage points. Both ETFs opened higher but slipped modestly from the regular-session start to finish. Much of the measured advance came after hours, when Nvidia's earnings reinforced the AI focus. Gemini 3, Fed minutes and employment-data uncertainty, a U.S.-Saudi AI partnership, and a reported Ukraine peace framework supplied the main context.