{"id":347044,"date":"2025-08-15T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347044\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:15:14","slug":"stock-market-today-live-updates-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347044\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock market today: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on August 15, 2025. <\/p>\n

Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n

The S&P 500<\/a> slipped on Friday after hitting a record high, as investors took some gains off the table after a strong week.<\/p>\n

The broad market index was last down about 0.2%. The Nasdaq Composite<\/a> shed 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> outperformed, rising 100 points, or 0.2%, thanks to a 14% jump in UnitedHealth. However, it was well off its all-time high reached earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

A decline in chip stocks and weak consumer sentiment data hurt in the market Friday. Applied Materials<\/a> fell 14% to lead the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH)<\/a> down by 2%. Nvidia<\/a> also lost 2%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell to 58.6 in August<\/a> from 61.7 last month due to worries over inflation.<\/p>\n

The major averages remained on solid footing for the week, however. The Dow outperformed, up 2%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained more than 1% week to date, thanks to new consumer inflation data that raised hopes for a Federal Reserve rate cut next month.<\/p>\n

July’s retail sales data, released on Friday morning, also painted a still-healthy picture for the U.S. consumer. Retail sales rose 0.5% last month, meeting expectations from the Dow Jones consensus. Retail sales excluding automobiles gained 0.3%, also matching estimates.<\/p>\n

“The AI boom and the required Fed rate cuts are supporting the market, so we don’t think we’ll have a tradable pullback in the S&P, despite the horrible seasonality of August and September,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO and CIO at Infrastructure Capital Advisors. “We’re actually kind of grinding higher still.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on August 15, 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[30669,3743,4959,51,3085,7996,7989,24840,2441,7995,3742,8572,24919,7994,3741,1831,16,15,49,17179,61688],"class_list":{"0":"post-347044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-applied-materials-inc","9":"tag-berkshire-hathaway-inc","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-dow-jones-fut-mar23","14":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","15":"tag-intel-corp","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-mar23","18":"tag-nasdaq-composite","19":"tag-nvidia-corp","20":"tag-russell-2000-index","21":"tag-sp-500-fut-mar23","22":"tag-sp-500-index","23":"tag-stock-markets","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedhealth-group-inc","28":"tag-vaneck-semiconductor-etf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347044","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=347044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}