US STOCKS-S&P 500, Dow hit all-time highs as vaccine moves step closer

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* Airlines, cruise operators soar on vaccine trial news
* Oil and bank shares jump
* Stay-at-home winners underperform
* Dow up 3.9%, S&P 2.9%, Nasdaq trails with 1.1% gain

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By Medha Singh and Shivani Kumaresan
Nov 9 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Dow hit record highs
on Monday as the first successful data from a late-stage
COVID-19 vaccine trial spurred hopes of the economy recovering
quickly from a year of pandemic-driven crisis.
Oil prices surged more than 8% and U.S. Treasuries sold off
after U.S. drugmaker Pfizer PFE.N and its German partner
BioNTech BNTX.O said data from the large-scale trial of their
vaccine showed it was more than 90% effective in preventing
COVID-19. O/R US/
With Joe Biden's clinching over the weekend of a
tightly-fought presidential election also fuelling gains, the
blue-chip Dow surged as much as 5.7%.
The companies hit hardest by months of travel bans and
lockdowns soared. Boeing Co BA.N jumped 13%, while airlines
.XAL and cruise line operators NCLH.N CCL.N were trading
between 13% and 30% higher.
Pfizer and BioNTech said they had found no serious safety
concerns so far and expected to seek U.S. emergency use
authorization later this month. "This (news) is extremely important and should give the
market confidence that Pfizer's candidate offers a breakthrough
in terms of reaching herd immunity at some point next year,"
said Robin Winkler, strategist at Deutsche Bank Research.
By 11:34 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI
was up 1,106.02 points, or 3.88%, the S&P 500 .SPX had gained
100.30 points or 2.85%, while the Russell 2000 small-cap index
.RUT surged 5.2% to an all-time high.
The S&P energy index .SPNY was on course for its best day
since April, while bank shares .SPXBK , often seen as a proxy
for the broader economy, jumped about 10.8%.
In contrast, shares in technology and other companies seen
as "stay-at-home" winners in the pandemic were lower or gaining
less.
Netflix Inc NFLX.O fell 4.4% and Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O
1.9%, while Zoom Video which ZM.O and Exercise bike maker
Peloton Interactive Inc PTON.O> plunged about 13%, limiting the
tech-heavy Nasdaq's .IXIC gains to 1.18%.
World stocks hit a record high earlier in the day and the
dollar remained weak as expectations of better global trade ties
and more monetary stimulus under President-elect Biden lifted
demand for risky assets. MKTS/GLOB
Treasury yields had fallen last week on expectations that
Biden would win the White House, but the Senate would be
controlled by Republicans, potentially stifling a fiscal
stimulus package and putting the onus back on the Federal
Reserve.
Biogen Inc BIIB.O slumped about 30% as a panel of experts
to the U.S. health regulator voted against the drugmaker
experiment Alzheimer's treatment. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners 4.8-to-1 on the NYSE
and 3-to-1 on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 138 new 52-week highs and one new
low, while the Nasdaq recorded 219 new highs and 11 new lows.