Wall Street indexes end higher ahead of Fed meeting; Tesla and Alphabet rally

Wall Street indexes end higher ahead of Fed meeting; Tesla and Alphabet rally

By Abigail Summerville and Ragini Mathur

Mon September 15, 2025  4:47 PM

The Dow had a rough and tumble day skirting back and forth between black and red but mostly close to break-even and still closing with a modest gain. The S&P and Nasdaq both had terrific days zooming right up at open and staying there all day, all on the eve of the September Fed meeting during which there is a huge expectation of a rate cut. But it’s not that simple as per today’s expert, “The market is counting on sort of a goldilocks scenario where the employment market is just weak enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to start a rate cutting series, not just one, without disrupting overall growth. The markets will be disappointed if the Fed doesn’t give some hint that they intend to continue rate cuts.” In a couple of days, we’ll know. Meanwhile, the hot anticipation is reflected in today’s volume which came in at 17.68 billion, above the 16.2 billion average. 

DJ: 45,834.22  -273.78      NAS: 22,141.10  +98.03      S&P: 6,584.29  -3.18         9/12

DJ: 45,883.45  +49.23       NAS: 22,348.75  +207.65    S&P: 6,615.28  +30.99      9/15

Mon 9-15-25 4:47 pm Wall Street indexes end higher ahead of Fed meeting; Tesla and Alphabet rally | Reuters

Nasdaq notches record high close, traders look to Fed meeting

Nasdaq notches record high close, traders look to Fed meeting

By Noel Randewich and Ragini Mathur

Fri September 12, 2025  4:23 PM

After yesterday’s big rally, investors took a breath today with profit-takers hitting industrials and tech getting yet another boost with the Nasdaq hitting yet another record. With strong evidence now that the job market has been weakening for some time, the bets are now for three more rate cuts before year-end, starting with next week. This was further bolstered today with U of M Consumer Sentiment falling for the second straight month.  

Wall Street indexes post record-high closes; Tesla and Micron rally

Wall Street indexes post record-high closes; Tesla and Micron rally

By Noel Randewich and Purvi Agarwal

Thu September 11, 2025 6:19 PM

All three indexes zoomed straight up right out the gate and stayed there all day, posting strong 3-digit gains. All three indexes registered record highs, even the Dow this time with a jump of a huge 617 points. As I suggested yesterday, it seems that whatever the reports said vis-à-vis inflation was going to be taken as good news. Yesterday, PPI showing inflation cooling caused a rally and today CPI showing inflation getting hotter caused an even bigger rally.  

S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch record-high closes as Oracle soars on AI optimism

S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch record-high closes as Oracle soars on AI optimism

By Noel Randewich and Ragini Mathur

Wed September 10, 2025 4:40 PM

Well, the PPI report came in great showing inflation cooling off more than expected, immediately sending tech way up and the Dow way down, though almost immediately both tech indexes started a decline that led to losing almost all gains by close but still closing modestly up. Yesterday the consensus seemed to be for inflation to be up which would hurt the labor market even more so the Fed would be motivated to cut rates. Today, with inflation being down, everyone is happy since the cooling is what the Fed needs to cut rates.  

Wall Street indexes notch record high closes, investors bet rate cut

Wall Street indexes notch record high closes, investors bet rate cut

By Noel Randewich

Tue September 9, 2025 5:35 PM

The exuberant optimism over the expected rate cut next week extended into yet another day today as all three indexes once again climbed, the Dow a second day at 3-digits, in fact all three registering new records at close. Complementing this was a new report today sharply reducing the number of jobs for the 12 months from March 2024 down 911,000 which suggests the job market began weakening last year.  

Nasdaq notches record high close; traders focus on rate cuts

Nasdaq notches record high close; traders focus on rate cuts

By Noel Randewich and Purvi Agarwal

Mon September 8, 2025 4:51 PM  

It was a rocky day but at least all three indexes did close in the green with the Nasdaq posting a new record and the Dow gaining 3-digits. This is all in hot anticipation of the expected rate cut coming next week. In fact, confidence is so high that the odds are now betting on three cuts before year-end, and even some bets that next week’s cut will be ½ point, though many analysts don’t buy this. There does seem to be a consensus that the Fed is no longer interested so much in inflation as in the weakening labor market. Inflation is being written off as tariff-related and therefore temporary and not as important regarding policy. The S&P is up 10% for the year, the Nasdaq 13%. At 16.2, volume is just a tad above the 16.1 billion average. 

DJ: 45,400.86  -220.43      NAS: 21,700.39  -7.31        S&P: 6,481.50  -20.58          9/5

DJ: 45,514.95  +114.09     NAS: 21,798.70  +98.31     S&P: 6,495.15  +13.65         9/8

Mon 9-8-25 4:51 pm Nasdaq notches record high close; traders focus on rate cuts | Reuters

Wall Street indexes end lower as jobs data fuels economic worries

Wall Street indexes end lower as jobs data fuels economic worries

By Caroline Valetkevitch

Fri September 5, 2025 6:24 PM

It was another day of panic as investors played another game of tug-of-war debating the pros and cons between a softening job market virtually guaranteeing a rate cut and a softening job market hurting the economy. The latter half sort of won out as the indexes, after briefly breaking new records in the first half hour almost immediately began sinking seriously into the red until having an 11^th hour recovery for at least the S&P and Nasdaq to close near even. The Dow didn’t do as well but still managed to recover from a 400 point loss to close at half that. The trigger of course was a badly disappointing jobs report which came in a whopping 70% lower than forecast.