{"id":418585,"date":"2025-09-12T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418585\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:51:11","slug":"stock-market-today-live-updates-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418585\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock market today: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 4, 2022.<\/p>\n

Source: NYSE<\/p>\n

The S&P 500<\/a> was little changed on Friday after the market surged to fresh records as investors\u00a0took\u00a0signs of\u00a0weakening jobs\u00a0and tame inflation\u00a0to mean the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates next week.<\/p>\n

The benchmark fell less than 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite<\/a> rose 0.1% to a fresh record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> lost 39 points, or 0.1%.<\/p>\n

The blue-chip\u00a0Dow popped more than 600 points Thursday, while the\u00a0S&P 500\u00a0gained 0.9% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.7%. All three major averages closed at record levels, and the Dow closed above 46,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n

The consumer price index showed a month-to-month increase of 0.4%<\/a> for August, hotter than the 0.3% that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting. However, the index’s 2.9% rise on a 12-month basis was in line with expectations.<\/p>\n

The usually crucial inflation report was overshadowed by weekly jobless claims, which showed a surprise jump to the highest level since October 2021. Workers filing for unemployment compensation for the week ended Sept. 6 increased 27,000 to 263,000, more than the 235,000 total expected.<\/p>\n

“[Thursday]s CPI report has been trumped by the jobless claims report,” said Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management. “While the CPI report is a tad hotter than expected, it will not give the Fed a moment of hesitation when they announce a rate cut next week. If anything, the jump in jobless claims will inject a bit more urgency in the Fed’s decision making, with [Fed Chair Jerome] Powell likely signaling a sequence of rate cuts is on the way.”<\/p>\n

Futures markets are pricing in a quarter percentage point at the conclusion of Fed’s Sept. 17 meeting with near certainty, according to the\u00a0CME FedWatch tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up about 1.6% week to date, while the Dow has risen 1.5%. The S&P 500 is on pace for its best weekly performance since early August and its fifth\u00a0positive week in six, and the Nasdaq is on track for its second winning week in a row. The Dow is also poised to post its first\u00a0positive week in three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 4, 2022. Source: NYSE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[129761,90435,4959,51,3085,125319,7989,2441,125321,3742,16678,125320,3741,1831,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-418585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-adobe-inc","9":"tag-breaking-news-major","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","14":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","17":"tag-nasdaq-composite","18":"tag-prices","19":"tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","20":"tag-sp-500-index","21":"tag-stock-markets","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115191656281824200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418585","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=418585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}