Wall St closes higher with indexes notching weekly gains

Wall St closes higher with indexes notching weekly gains

By Abigail Summerville and Purvi Agarwal

Fri September 19, 2025 4:36 PM  

For the third day after the rate cut, investors continued digesting the news and its implications and after some initial hesitation from around 10 – 11:30, sentiment changed to feeling good about the Fed changing the inflation target and heating things up a little more would be good for stocks. That started another wave of buying that had the Dow and Nasdaq in nice 3-digit gains again. Additionally, there was the sentiment that small caps move inversely to rates so those stocks will benefit disproportionately from the rest of the market to this rate cut.  

The small cap index has today registered its biggest gains in four years. But the best news is that in a month that is historically a down month, all three indexes have instead had three straight weeks of gains, this week each rising between 1 and 2.2%. There was so much optimism out there today that volume was through the roof coming in at a whopping 26.3 billion vs the 17.4 average, though when I googled it, turned out it was a triple-witching day.  

DJ: 46,142.42  +124.10      NAS: 22,470.73  +209.40     S&P: 6,631.96  +31.61         9/18

DJ: 46,315.27  +172.85      NAS: 22,631.48  +160.75     S&P: 6,664.36  +32.40         9/19

Fri 9-19-25 4:36 pm Wall St closes higher with indexes notching weekly gains | Reuters