Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on August 12, 2025. <\/p>\n
NYSE<\/p>\n
Stocks rose Wednesday, adding to their recent momentum as expectations for lower U.S. Federal Reserve rates continue driving the major indexes to all-time highs.<\/p>\n
The major U.S. indexes are coming off of a strong trading session, which saw the S&P 500<\/a> and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite<\/a> close at fresh record highs. The S&P 500 added 1.1% to settle at 6,445.76, while the Nasdaq ended 1.4% higher at 21,681.90. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0added about 483 points, or 1.1%, to close at 44,458.61.<\/p>\n The Russell 2000 Index<\/a> jumped nearly 3% during the session as small-cap stocks are generally considered a beneficiary of lower short-term borrowing rates.<\/p>\n Stocks rose Tuesday as inflation data was tamer than expected<\/a>, soothing investor fears that tariffs are not spiking prices. Traders are now pricing in a nearly 94% chance of a rate cut at the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, per trading data from the\u00a0CME’s FedWatch Tool<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday’s producer price index report on wholesale inflation will add another piece of the economic picture. The report comes ahead of the Fed’s\u00a0Jackson Hole meeting<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 21-23, which could also help shape expectations for the central bank’s next policy move.<\/p>\n Not all investors came away convinced by Tuesday’s strong moves. 3Fourteen Research co-founder Warren Pies said the moves in small-cap names may not be what they seem in this late-cycle environment.<\/p>\n “We’ve had some seasonal buying in the beginning of August, and I think people are starting to jump the gun and misinterpret that as this summer melt-up that every wants to believe in,” Pies said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”<\/a> “I think there is some concerns in my mind about the labor market and the growth story and the market’s kind of glossing over them.”<\/p>\n Cava<\/a> shares plunged 24% after the Mediterranean restaurant chain reported\u00a0disappointing second-quarter revenue growth<\/a> and lowered its same-store sales forecast for the full year. CoreWeave<\/a> shares dropped about 8% as the artificial intelligence infrastructure provider delivered a mixed<\/a> quarter, despite robust revenue gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on August 12, 2025. NYSE Stocks rose Wednesday, adding to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[4959,51,3085,44118,44121,7996,2441,7995,3742,24919,7994,3741,1831,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341258","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-cava-group-inc","12":"tag-coreweave-inc","13":"tag-dow-jones-fut-mar23","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-mar23","16":"tag-nasdaq-composite","17":"tag-russell-2000-index","18":"tag-sp-500-fut-mar23","19":"tag-sp-500-index","20":"tag-stock-markets","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021723902883181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341258","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=341258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}