{"id":315627,"date":"2025-08-03T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:23:11","slug":"stock-market-today-live-updates-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315627\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock market today live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on August 1, 2025 in New York City. <\/p>\n<p>Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Stock futures are little changed Sunday night, with investors once again on edge as the Trump administration&#8217;s new round of tariffs heightened worries about rising inflation and an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@SP.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S&amp;P 500 futures<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@ND.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a> hovered near the flatline. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> added 15 points, or less than 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks are coming off of a volatile trading week that saw each of the three major U.S. indexes end with significant losses, halting weeks of mostly positive moves for the broader market.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.SPX\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S&amp;P 500<\/a> ended the week down 2.4%, notching its worst weekly performance since May 23, while the 30-stock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> dropped 2.9% to post its worst week since April 4. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IXIC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nasdaq Composite<\/a> ended the week down 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s sell-off was driven by a worse-than-expected July jobs report and jitters about President Donald Trump&#8217;s new modified tariff rates. Trump signed an executive order late last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/01\/trump-rejigs-tariff-rates-ahead-of-deadline-levies-40percent-duties-on-all-transshipped-goods.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated his &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners<\/a>, ranging from Syria to Taiwan, with updated duties ranging from 10% to 41%.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are now digesting what a weakened U.S. labor market could mean for the weeks ahead. Traders are expecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/31\/markets-see-dwindling-odds-of-a-september-interest-rate-cut-from-the-fed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced chances for a September interest rate cut<\/a> after policymakers last week held the benchmark overnight borrowing rate in place for the fifth-straight meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The market is also bracing for a historically weak month. August is the worst month for the Dow Jones Industrial Average in data going back to 1988, and the second worst for the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, according to the Stock Trader&#8217;s Almanac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on August 1, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[4959,51,3085,7989,2441,7995,3742,7994,3741,1831,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315627","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-dow-jones-industrial-average","12":"tag-markets","13":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-mar23","14":"tag-nasdaq-composite","15":"tag-sp-500-fut-mar23","16":"tag-sp-500-index","17":"tag-stock-markets","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114967177014865266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}