Dow Jones Industrial Average futures<\/a> advanced 16 points, or less than 0.1%.<\/p>\nWall Street is coming off a winning session that added to the benchmark’s October gains. The S&P 500 and Dow industrials climbed 2.3% and 2.5%, respectively, for the month. The Nasdaq Composite outperformed, gaining 4.7%.<\/p>\n
Those gains were driven in part by continued momentum in the artificial intelligence trade as well as signs of easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n
More than 300 S&P 500 companies have posted third-quarter results thus far. Of those, over 80% have beaten expectations, according to FactSet. Wall Street will get another 100-plus companies reporting this week, including AI-related names Palantir and AMD.<\/p>\n
“Fundamentally, the U.S. earnings picture remains strong and supported by these 3 factors: AI spending visibility remains strong and Amazon’s strong 3Q25 report is the latest evidence of this; financials are driving innovation via blockchain; the Fed is dovish and lowering interest rates; and QT (quantitative tightening) is ending Dec 1,” wrote Tom Lee, head of research at Fundstrat.<\/p>\n
Wall Street may get a seasonality boost this month. Data from the Stock Trader’s Almanac shows the S&P 500 averages a 1.8% gain in November, making it the strongest month historically for the benchmark.<\/p>\n
Investors also kept an eye on Washington, as the U.S. government remains shut down. The stoppage has delayed several key economic data releases, including the monthly jobs report.<\/p>\n
On top of that, the Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments<\/a> on legality of the Trump administration’s tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 17, 2025. Brendan McDermid |…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7789,133,64,81,91320,3346,135,91322,91321,134,67,132,68,3642],"class_list":{"0":"post-351434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-breaking-news-investing","9":"tag-breaking-news-markets","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","13":"tag-investment-strategy","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","16":"tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","17":"tag-stock-markets","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-wall-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115482938872534972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}