S&P 500 closed Friday 9/12 at 6584, down 0.05% for the day, and up 11.9% YTD. Lousy consumer sentiment report
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Year to date (YTD) is from the Dec 31 closing level.
Treasury 10 Year yield: 4.06% (8 days ago it was 4.18%) https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ETNX/
near its lowest levels of the year.
Market news of the day: https://finance.yahoo.com/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-nasdaq-notches-5th-straight-record-dow-tumbles-as-wall-street-gears-up-for-fed-week-223701739.html
Scroll down to see earlier in the day reports
The NASDAQ made a new all-time high today. The S&P 500 is off just 0.05% from the all-time high set yesterday
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey released Friday showed consumer sentiment slipped more than expected in September, while long-run inflation expectations jumped to 3.9%, as Americans worried over the effects of tariffs.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/consumer-sentiment-drops-in-september-as-americans-anticipate-job-market-risks-152626218.html
Next week is the retail sales report, coming before the Fed rate meeting, so that's the last important economic data they have to digest before the Fed rate decision on 9/17
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The S&P 500 closed Friday September 12 at 6584, down 0.05% for the day,
and up 13.9% from the 5783 election day closing level,
and up 9.8% from the inauguration eve closing level,
and up 11.9% year-to-date (since the December 31 close)
S&P 500
# Election day close (11/5/24) 5783
# Last close before inauguration day: (1/17/25): 5997
# 2024 year-end close (12/31/24): 5882
# Trump II era low point (going all the way back to election day Nov5): 4983 on April 8
# Several market indexes: https://finance.yahoo.com/
# S&P 500: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history/
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I'm not a fan of the DOW as it is a cherry-picked collection of just 30 stocks that are price-weighted, which is silly. It's as asinine as judging consumer price inflation by picking 30 blue chip consumer items, and weighting them according to their prices. But since there is an automatically updating embedded graphic, here it is. It takes several, like 6 hours, after the close for it to update, like about 10 PM EDT.
(If it still isn't updated, try right-clicking on it and opening in a new tab. #OR# click on https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/ ).
The Dow closed Thursday at 46,108, and it closed Friday at 45,834, a drop of 0.6% (274 points) for the day
I don't maintain statistics for the DOW like percent up or down since election day, or year-to-date, or from the all-time high etc. like I do for the S&P 500.
https://finance.yahoo.com/
DOW: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/
. . . . . . https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/history/
DOW
# Election day close (11/5/24) 42,222
# Last close before inauguration day: (1/17/25): 43,488
# 2024 year-end close (12/31/24): 42,544
DJIA means Dow Jones Industrials Average. It takes about 6 hours after the close to update, so check it after 10 PM EDT
I don't have an embeddable graph for the S&P 500, unfortunately, but to see its graph, click on https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/
While I'm at it, I might as well show Oil and the Dollar:
Crude Oil
US Dollar Index (DX-Y.NYB)
If you see a tiny graphics square above and no graph, right click on the square and choose "load image". There should be a total of 3 graphs. And remember that it typically takes about 6 hours after the close before these graphs update.
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