15 Best Stocks in the Past Week: Vaccine Stocks Surge Higher The best-performing stocks in the past week include Novavax, BioNTech, Moderna, Nuance, Nvidia, Wells Fargo, Tesla, Dell, and more. Author: Apr 18, 2021 9:31 AM EDT Stocks rose Friday as soaring growth in China provided investors with further reasons to believe in a surging post-pandemic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 116 points, or 0.34%, to 34,152, and the S&P 500 gained 0.24%. The Nasdaq declined 0.05%. The Dow and S&P 500 set intraday all-time highs on Friday. Bitcoin fell Friday after Turkey's central bank is...