Wall Street's main indexes all ended higher on Monday, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite making it three straight wins, aided by gains by many of the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks on a holiday-thinned trading day.

Asia-Pacific markets are set to open higher on Christmas Eve, tracking Wall Street gains before the holidays. Traders will monitor any developments related to the planned merger of Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda.

Asia-Pacific markets trade mostly higher on Tuesday, followed a rally in U.S. tech shares that boosted Wall Street overnight. Further gains were limited by the shortened trading day today, ahead of the Christmas holidays.

Wall Street's main indexes all ended higher on Tuesday, with gains in megacap and growth stocks bolstering benchmarks in a truncated Christmas Eve session. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite scored four straight sessions of gains.

The S&P 500 posted two new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 26 new highs and 43 new lows.

Technology stocks led a broad rally on Wall Street during a holiday-shortened trading session the day before Christmas.