S&P 500 closed Wednesday 10/8 at 6754, up 0.6% for the day, and up 14.8% year-to-date

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Treasury 10 Year yield: 4.13% (no change). It was 4.01% on 9/11, which was the lowest point in several months
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ETNX/

Market news of the day: https://finance.yahoo.com/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-sp-500-nasdaq-resume-record-rally-as-gold-jumps-fed-minutes-point-to-more-rate-cuts-200208111.html

Scroll down to see earlier in the day reports

The S&P 500 and NASDAQ hit new all-time highs today

Markets marched to session highs in afternoon trading following the release of the Federal Reserve's minutes from its last policy meeting. The minutes signaled more rate cuts could be in play for the rest of 2025 even as they also hinted at steep divisions within the central bank.

The shutdown, which is now a week old, has deprived Wall Street and the Federal Reserve of the crucial economic data needed to shape their thinking.

The Trump administration has already missed a self-imposed deadline this week to announce its plan to help US soybean farmers. The gridlock on Capitol Hill means that the delays are likely to continue.

The shutdown is furloughing administration staffers needed to finalize and implement the farmer aid that had been promised to be unveiled on Tuesday, as well as putting on ice any additional money that lawmakers may need to provide.

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THIS IS FROM YESTERDAY'S CLOSE, but I leave here for another day to give an idea of where we are on the other indices
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-202057981.html
For the year ((meaning since the Dec 31 close -progree)):

The S&P 500 is up 832.96 points, or 14.2%.
The Dow is up 4,058.76 points, or 9.5%.
The Nasdaq is up 3,477.57 points, or 18%.
The Russell 2000 is up 228.27 points, or 10.2%.

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BACK TO TODAY'S CLOSE
The S&P 500 closed Wednesday October 8 at 6754, up 0.6% for the day,
and up 16.8% from the 5783 election day closing level,
and up 12.6% from the inauguration eve closing level,
and up 14.8% 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 Tuesday at 46,603, and it closed Wednesday at 46,602, a drop of 0.0% (1 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. Sometimes it takes a couple days (sigh)



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.