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Meta's $34.9bn quarterly capital bill and Brent crude's surge to $116.72 pulled the Nasdaq to its worst day since June, while energy, healthcare and small caps held firm. Anthropic's IPO filing steadied the AI trade on Monday.
Hot US inflation data and mounting worries about how the AI build-out is financed gave the Nasdaq its worst week since June, dragging chip stocks down 11.41%, while the Dow rose on a rotation into staples and energy.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq set record closes before a report on OpenAI's revenue knocked Oracle, Nvidia and AMD, yet Wall Street still finished the week higher as defensives took the lead and SpaceX's $8bn spectrum deal reshaped US telecoms.
A September payrolls miss of just 29,000 jobs cut October Fed rate-rise odds to around 17% and carried the Nasdaq Composite to a record close, even as the Dow and S&P 500 booked weekly losses and Treasury yields reached their highest in more than two decades.
Meta's Muse AI agent drove a near-13% weekly gain and split Wall Street: chipmakers rallied while travel bookers slid. The Nasdaq added 2% as Treasury yields hit a 19-year high, then Monday gave much of it back.
The Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since 2023, lifting its target range to 3.75%-4% and sending the 10-year Treasury yield to a 19-year high. Chipmakers then drove the Nasdaq to a record close on Monday.
AMD crossed USD 1 trillion in market value for the first time, hitting a record above USD 613 - on a session with no company announcement at all.
Oil above $100 and a 10-year Treasury yield touching 5% dragged the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow lower in a holiday-shortened week, before a weekend AI slowdown warning knocked chipmakers on Monday. Oracle, Adobe and Kroger reported.
August payrolls came in at 162,000 against forecasts near 53,000, reviving bets on a September Federal Reserve rate rise and leaving the S&P 500 up just 0.1% on the week. Lululemon, Tesla and Broadcom fell; Snowflake soared.
Fed chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole debut sent September rate-hike odds sharply higher, yet Wall Street still closed the week ahead as Nvidia and Salesforce delivered. Monday's US-Iran flare-up then hit the Dow.
Wall Street's week belonged to the bond market, as the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2007 and dragged the S&P 500 to a 1.43% loss. Moderna rose 177% in a single day on cancer vaccine data, while Walmart fell 9%.
Cooler US inflation lifted the S&P 500 to a record above 7,800 last week, but weak retail sales and a bond selloff that pushed 30-year Treasury yields to their highest since 2007 took the shine off by Monday.
A shock US jobs report cooled Federal Reserve rate-hike fears and drove the S&P 500 to a record close, capping its best week since April. Nvidia and Palantir led a chip and AI rally, while oil's rebound above $87 clipped Monday's session.
Microsoft's biggest one-day gain since 2008 and a 15% jump at Amazon offset a 7.4% slide at Apple, while a divided Federal Reserve held rates and the Dow closed at a record on 3 August.
Alphabet's capex shock and a divided Federal Reserve rattled US markets, before Microsoft's record 16% surge pulled the Nasdaq out of a six-day slide. Here is what moved Wall Street over the past fortnight, and why.