A trader reacts on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n
Brendan McDermid | Reuters<\/p>\n
Stocks rose on Friday, with major U.S. indexes notching weekly gains, as the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates set in investors’ minds.<\/p>\n
The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> added 172.85 points, or 0.37%, to close at 46,315.27, reaching a fresh record high. The S&P 500<\/a> settled up 0.49% at 6,664.36, while the Nasdaq Composite<\/a> advanced 0.72% to finish at 22,631.48.<\/p>\n The small-cap Russell 2000<\/a> dipped 0.7%, taking back some gains this week after the index touched a fresh record high earlier in the session.<\/p>\n Apple<\/a> led the way higher, rising 3.2%, as the company’s latest iPhone went on sale around the world. Tesla<\/a> shares were also up more than 2.2%.<\/p>\n Wall Street is on pace to post strong weekly gains. The S&P 500 and Dow are up 1.2% and 1%, respectively, while the Nasdaq is up 2.2%. The Russell 2000 gained 2.2%, notched its seventh weekly advance.<\/p>\n Stocks got a boost this week after the Fed\u00a0lowered its benchmark overnight lending rate<\/a>\u00a0by a quarter percentage point, its first rate reduction since December. The move was widely expected by markets, but stocks had a volatile session on the back of the decision after Fed Chair Jerome Powell in his press conference<\/a>\u00a0characterized the decision as a “risk management cut.”<\/p>\n “While September has historically delivered pullbacks, this year’s market has defied that pattern \u2014 climbing 35% since March with strong technical and fundamental tailwinds,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide. “Still, with the S&P 500 trading at 22x forward earnings and volatility suppressed, a period of consolidation or choppiness would be a normal and healthy development.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trader reacts on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 22, 2025. Brendan McDermid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4144,4117,84,273,39172,4126,46803,467,39174,4127,25331,39173,4125,4118,4141,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-148082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-apple-inc","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-gold-comex-dec25","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-russell-2000-index","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-stock-markets","tag-tesla-inc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148082","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=148082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}