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...The S&P 500 closed 0.2 per cent higher, up 1.9 per cent this week, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended flat for a rise of 1.1 per cent since Monday morning....
...jennifer.hughes@ft.com...
...The S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite were both broadly flat by mid-afternoon in New York, although still on course for their first three-week run of gains in three months....
...The S&P 500 ended 1.6 per cent lower on Tuesday for its biggest one-day drop since the end of January, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 2 per cent....
...Thursday’s small gain left the S&P 500 up 10.2 per cent this year, while the Nasdaq Composite has added 9 per cent....
...The S&P 500 was off 0.8 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite down 1 per cent by mid-afternoon. Both are down 3.4 per cent this month....
...Despite Thursday’s so-so performance, the S&P will close out the quarter with its best start to the year since 2019, up about 10 per cent....
...The Nasdaq Composite, which pushed past its previous 2021 peaks on Thursday, ended Friday up 1.1 per cent while the S&P 500, which has enjoyed several new peaks in recent weeks, added 0.8 per cent....
...In the US, the S&P 500 has added 7.9 per cent....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] The other day, I was on the line with the FT’s US markets editor, Jennifer Hughes, and I wanted to show her something....
...Wall Street ended lower on Thursday as stronger than expected producer prices undermined an early rally, leaving the S&P 500 to close down 0.3 per cent....
...Since a painful 10 per cent correction between July and October, the S&P 500 has risen more than 25 per cent....
...Wall Street ended lower on Thursday as stronger-than-expected producer prices undermined an early rally, leaving the S&P 500 to close down 0.3 per cent....
...The S&P 500 index of blue-chip companies is up more than 9 per cent since the start of the year....
...The cooling labour market spurred a 1.3 per cent gain for the blue-chip S&P 500 index, ending a week in which Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell signalled that rates would remain at a 23-year high of 5.25-...
...Hopes for capital raising have been bolstered by a stock market rally that has lifted the S&P 500 index to a record high, gaining 27 per cent since a late-October low....
...The benchmark S&P 500 has climbed 19 per cent in six months, while volatility — a threat to would-be floats — has remained low....
...Stocks have rallied strongly this year, with the blue-chip S&P 500 enjoying its best start to a year since 2019, having risen 10.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2024....
...The S&P 500 has yet to eclipse its intraday high for 2023, which was reached in July. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.6 per cent on Friday to a four-month high....
...Stocks had been poised to open higher but the S&P 500 dropped 0.2 per cent in early trading after John Williams, head of the New York Federal Reserve, said that rate cuts were not the priority for policymakers...
...So far the rethink on rates has done little to cool stock markets, with the S&P 500 index of blue-chip stocks up 7.4 per cent this year — helped by the strength of the US economy and excitement about the...
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