S&P 500 closed Wednesday 8/27 at 6481, up 0.2% for the day, and up 10.2% year-to-date. AI demand weakening?

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Year to date (YTD) is from the Dec 31 closing level.

The S&P 500 closed at a new all-time high

Market news of the day: https://finance.yahoo.com/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-sp-500-vaults-to-record-high-with-nvidia-earnings-set-to-provide-key-test-200027701.html

AFTER HOURS: NVIDIA beat earnings expectations but had disappointing data center sales, raising questions about AI demand.

50% tariffs on India went into effect today (because of purchasing oil from Russia. But isn't Russia merely defending itself from Ukrainian aggression? (lately Rump is back to repeating Russian talking points).

Cracker Barrel went back to its old logo with the old-timer. Some say the new-but-now-retracted logo was a mistake, but wow, all the new brand-awareness publicity it got / is getting.

10 year Treasury yield: 4.24%, down .02 percentage points.

Rate cut bets: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html

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The S&P 500 closed Wednesday August 27 at 6481, up 0.2% for the day, to a new all-time high
and up 12.1% from the 5783 election day closing level,
and up 8.1% from the inauguration eve closing level,
and up 10.2% 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
# All-time closing high: 6467 on 8/13/25
# 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 45,418, and it closed Wednesday at 45,565, a rise of 0.3% (147 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
# DOW All Time High: 12/4/24: 45,014

# Correction level beginning 10% down: 40,513,
# Bear market level: beginning 20% down: 36,011 (we've not reached that level yet in Trump II so far)

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.