S&P 500 closed Tuesday 7/15 at 6244, down 0.4% for the day, and up 6.2% year-to-date. CPI heating up.

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Year to date is from the Dec 31 closing level.

The June CPI (Consumer Price Index), reported today, was +0.3% over June, as expected, but that's hot. The Core CPI came in at +0.2% over June, when 0.3% was expected, but still that's above the Fed target on an annualized basis. The 12 month (year-over-year) numbers came in at 2.7% for the CPI (that number was 2.4% in the May report) and 2.9% for the Core CPI (also an increase from the May report's number). The headlines I've seen are all about how hot it is, and that there are lowered expectations of a Fed rate cut in September.. The LBN thread about the CPI is at https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143496078 , my graphs are at https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143496078#post11. They year-over-year graphs for both the CPI and the core CPI are in the OP of that thread.

All the major averages except the NASDAQ were basically falling throughout the day, and ending on their lowest level for the day (see graphs at upper right of https://finance.yahoo.com/ . The NASDAQ was positive throughout the day, but had a sharp reduction in like about the last 2 hours, but still closed up +0.18% for the day. I don't know what accounted for the steep falloff in the last 2 hours for the indices.

I don't know why Yahoo Finance does this "for the week" and "for the year" compilation of the major indices on Tuesday, FFS, but here it is:

For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 15.99 points, or 0.3%.
The Dow is down 348.22 points, or 0.8%.
The Nasdaq is up 92.27 points, or 0.4%.
The Russell 2000 is down 29.77 points, or 1.3%.

For the year (meaning year-to-date, ie since Dec 31 close):
The S&P 500 is up 362.13 points, or 6.2%.
The Dow is up 1,479.07 points, or 3.5%.
The Nasdaq is up 1,367.01 points, or 7.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 25.10 points, or 1.1%.

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The S&P 500 closed Tuesday July 15 at 6244, down 0.4% for the day,
and up 8.0% from the 5783 election day closing level,
and up 4.1% from the inauguration eve closing level,
and up 6.2% year-to-date,

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 (2/19/25): 6144, until 6/27/25 when it closed at 6173
. . . With the new all-time high closing on June 27, we are in a bull market by any and all definitions
# 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. 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 Monday at 44,460, and it closed Tuesday at 44,023, a drop of 1.0% (436 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.

DJIA means Dow Jones Industrials Average. It takes about 6 hours after the close to update, so check it after 10 PM EDT


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)

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.