{"id":894606,"date":"2026-09-16T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894606\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:56:12","slug":"stock-market-today-live-updates-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894606\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock market today: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A television station broadcasts Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaking after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> fell on Wednesday after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/federal-reserve\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Reserve<\/a> hiked interest rates for the first time in three years and central bank Chairman Kevin Warsh highlighted persistent inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-stock Dow lost 631.21 points, or 1.21% with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GS\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> leading the way lower. The blue-chip average ended the day at 51,461.90. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.SPX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P 500<\/a> dropped 0.45% to end at 7,551.81, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IXIC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq Composite<\/a> ended the session down 0.01% at 25,978.42. All three were higher at one point during the session before the Fed took action and Warsh spoke at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision, the Fed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/16\/fed-rate-decision-september-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised the overnight funds rate<\/a> by a quarter percentage point, bringing the target range to between 3.75% and 4%. That marked the first hike from the central bank since July 2023. The central bank also signaled another hike could come this year. <\/p>\n<p>Stocks took the widely expected increase in stride at first, but then traded lower during Warsh&#8217;s press conference, where he repeatedly highlighted that the inflation risk wasn&#8217;t improving. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/US10Y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-year Treasury<\/a> yield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/16\/treasury-yield-bond-market-fed-decision.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded back above 5%<\/a> amid fears that maybe the Fed was still behind the curve on inflation even after Wednesday&#8217;s hike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plain fact is that inflation is too high, and has been for too long,&#8221; Warsh said during the press conference. &#8220;This summer&#8217;s inflation readings do not tell me that underlying trends have meaningfully improved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dow, 1 day<\/p>\n<p>Art Hogan, B. Riley Wealth&#8217;s chief market strategist, noted that even though what the Fed delivered was &#8220;within consensus,&#8221; Warsh&#8217;s &#8220;more hawkish&#8221; commentary could mean higher yields are here to stay for a while.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market is taking its cues currently from the yield on the 10-year bumping back up over 5%, which is a massive psychological level,&#8221; Hogan said. That reaction in the yield curve as well as the idea of higher-for-longer inflation could &#8220;both become headwinds for markets in the near term,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Big banks slid after the decision. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BAC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/WFC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo<\/a> shares declined nearly 3% apiece on fear higher rates could slow lending growth and the economy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AXP\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Express<\/a> and Goldman Sachs shares also declined almost 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the pressures on the economy, U.S. diesel prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/11\/diesel-price-iran-strait-hormuz-ukraine-russia.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit $6 per gallon<\/a> on Friday for the first time amid ongoing supply constraints caused by the Ukraine and Iran wars. Additionally, crude oil prices are currently holding above $100 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/INTC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intel<\/a> shares advanced 4%, helping to stem losses for the Nasdaq, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/16\/intel-sk-hynix-us-memory-chips.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> that it was in talks with South Korea memory giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SKHY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SK Hynix<\/a> to build semiconductors in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A television station broadcasts Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaking after a Federal Open Market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[352305,458024,23645,4862,64,63,104845,1053,99,174,5127,59432,1062,164,40461,53201,5057,9067,259926,18548,5575,247550,941,231620,9068,171,59430,1061,5063,7555,9074,59431,1063,19410,65618,1054,173,2417,19949,19946,1055,53800,141003],"class_list":["post-894606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-lco26x","tag-lco27g","tag-advanced-micro-devices-inc","tag-american-express-co","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bank-of-america-corp","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-chicago","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-economy","tag-ftse-100","tag-goldman-sachs-bdc-inc","tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","tag-intel-corp","tag-iran","tag-ishares-semiconductor-etf","tag-japan","tag-kevin-warsh","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-osaka","tag-prices","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-sk-hynix-inc","tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","tag-stock-markets","tag-stoxx-600","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-u-s-10-year-treasury","tag-u-s-30-year-treasury","tag-united-states","tag-wells-fargo-co","tag-wti-crude-sep25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}