{"id":132328,"date":"2025-09-12T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:54:07","slug":"stock-market-today-live-updates-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132328\/","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":76623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45086,6220,4117,84,273,39172,4126,467,39174,4127,186,39173,4125,4118,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-132328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-adobe-inc","tag-breaking-news-major","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-prices","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-stock-markets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}