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The Dow Jones industrial average soared 547.87 points — or 2.2 percent — to 25,798.42 Tuesday as big Wall Street banks reported surprisingly strong earnings and tech stocks recovered from last week’s carnage.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were up 2.2 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively.

Tuesday’s rebound comes after a bloody week on Wall Street in which the major indices each shed roughly 4 percent over the five-day period on worries over rising interest rates. The Dow alone plunged a staggering 1,300 points between Wednesday and Thursday.

This is a “snapback rally,” Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at RW Baird, told The Post.

“The market came into this week oversold,” he added.

Worries of rising interest rates spooked investors into selling both stocks and bonds last week.

But a shortage of stock buyers exacerbated the selloff as many publicly traded companies were in their quiet period and unable to buy back their stock before reporting earnings.

“The bounce wouldn’t have been this good if the market wasn’t oversold,” Bittles said.

All of the Dow’s 30 stocks were traded solidly in the green territory Tuesday, with UnitedHealth being the big winner and soaring 4.7 percent followed by Nike, which gained 3.3 percent.

Banking behemoth Goldman Sachs, which reported results before Tuesday’s open, was up 3 percent after announcing a 19 percent increase in profits.

Tech stocks — particularly the so-called FAANG stocks — got a nice pop in Tuesday’s action after taking a beating last week as investors traded out of high-growth companies.

Facebook and Amazon both rallied 3.4 percent while Apple and Google-parent Alphabet were up 2.2 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively.

Netflix, which reported earnings after the bell, gained 4 percent in regular day trading and soared 12 percent after-hours.

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