A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n
Brendan McDermid | Reuters<\/p>\n
Stock futures rose on Wednesday as investors continued to digest the latest rate cut decision from the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> climbed 333 points, or 0.7%. S&P 500 futures<\/a> traded higher by 0.9%, as did Nasdaq-100 futures<\/a>.<\/p>\n The moves follow a volatile day of trading Wednesday after the Fed, as anticipated, slashed its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point<\/a>. The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> was the lone gainer, rising 260.42 points, or 0.57%, while the S&P 500<\/a> and the Nasdaq Composite<\/a> fell 0.1% and 0.33%, respectively.<\/p>\n During a news conference<\/a> following the decision, Fed Chair Jerome Powell put a damper<\/a> on investor hopes that the central bank would be on a lengthy rate-cutting path this year, as he called the latest cut “risk management.” In fact, policymakers are predicting two more reductions this year, but just one in 2026<\/a>, while traders had priced in two to three more cuts next year.<\/p>\n “The Fed’s 25 basis point cut is a clear signal: the softening labor market and stubborn inflation have pushed policymakers to act \u2014 but gradually. This isn’t a pivot, it’s a measured step,” Gina Bolvin, president at Bolvin Wealth Management Group, said in a statement.<\/p>\n “For investors, this means modest rate relief, not fireworks,” she added. “The Fed is walking a fine line, and upcoming inflation and jobs data will determine what comes next.”<\/p>\n Despite Wednesday’s losses, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are still headed for weekly gains, being up 0.2% and 0.5% in the period, respectively. That puts the broad market index on pace for its sixth positive week in seven and the tech-heavy Nasdaq on track for its third positive week in a row.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Wednesday’s move higher for the 30-stock Dow puts its week-to-date advance at 0.4%, a move that would signify its second consecutive week of gains, if it holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[491,79,207,21105,6938,193,18,19,17,5129,188,6940,192,4057,6939,190,205,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-71297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-breaking-news-markets","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-cracker-barrel-old-country-store-inc","12":"tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","13":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jerome-powell","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","20":"tag-nasdaq-composite","21":"tag-prices","22":"tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","23":"tag-sp-500-index","24":"tag-stock-markets","25":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}