{"id":52859,"date":"2021-10-16T00:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=52859"},"modified":"2021-10-16T00:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:53:43","slug":"u-s-shares-close-higher-sp-500-best-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/u-s-shares-close-higher-sp-500-best-since-july\/10\/16\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"U. S. Shares close higher, S&#038;P 500 Best since July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U. S. Shares closed higher again on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&amp;P 500 its best week since July. The benchmark index added 0.7% and ended the week up 1.8%. <br><br>Encouraging reports on the economy and corporate earnings helped the market keep steady following unstable weeks.<br><br>J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Goldman Sachs, Alcoa and other companies turned in solid earnings reports. Earnings coincided with a report showing Americans spent much more at U.S. retailers last month than Wall Street expected. <br><br>Treasury yields also climbed following the encouraging data. Crude oil prices rose, while natural gas fell.<br><br>The S&amp;P 500 was 0.8% higher in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Index was up 401 points, or 1.2%, at 35,314, as of 3 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U. S. Shares closed higher again on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&amp;P 500 its best week since July. The benchmark index added 0.7% and ended the week up 1.8%. Encouraging reports on the economy and corporate earnings helped the market keep steady following unstable weeks.J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Goldman Sachs, Alcoa and other companies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":52424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39,36],"tags":[7192,7113,516,6984,6862],"class_list":["post-52859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-dow","tag-earnings","tag-sp-500","tag-treasury-yields","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52863,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52859\/revisions\/52863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}