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So far this year, the FTSE 100 has risen by almost 15%, on track for its strongest year since 2009.

The agency granted Dimensional Fund Advisors permission to launch ETF versions of some of its traditional mutual funds.

Investors continued to shrug off the latest dysfunction in Washington, giving the S&P 500 its best September since 2010.

Wall Streett is assessing the first US shutdown in seven years and an unexpected drop in private-sector jobs.

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) officially had their best third quarter since 2020, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) closed at a record high. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre joins Asking for a Trend host Josh Lipton to go over the key takeaways of Tuesday's trading session: sector performance in the third quarter, chipmakers on a tear, and metals soaring. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend.

Tuesday's closing bell signals not just the curtain call of trading activity for September, but the end of 2025's third quarter as well. Which stocks were the biggest winners and losers this past quarter? Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre highlights this past month's market performance (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) and the companies that saw some of the biggest gains this quarter. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime.

Farley was speaking at his company’s Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit on Tuesday morning. Improving the “essential economy” would be good for Ford, since it sells a lot of trucks to small businesses. Ford’s commercial division, called “Ford Pro,” reported second-quarter operating profit of $2.3 billion.

CRH stock was up 4.3% in early trading at $119.55, while the was down 0.2% and the was flat. The move came after CRH set out its new five-year targets at an investor day in New York. The company plans to grow sales between 7% and 9% a year on average, achieve earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or Ebitda, profit margins of 22% to 24%, and convert 100% of its earnings into free cash flow.

BofA is “sufficiently confident” that risks following September’s fatal mining accident are priced in.

Tesla stock has been on a surge this month and Canaccord analyst George Gianarikas think there's potential for it to go further.

After US market averages (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) ended Monday's trading day in positive territory, Yahoo Finance senior reporter Allie Canal recaps the session's biggest market themes, including the anticipation behind August's Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data and the expected scope of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve at the central bank's September FOMC meeting next week. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend.

Verizon chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg reveals what's next for the telecom giant and what SpaceX's new spectrum deal means.

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy offers up a warning to investors in the software space.

The S&P 500 was up 0.2% and within striking distance of a high of its own. “Equities are holding onto early gains on a combination of rate cut hopes and positive S&P 500 inclusion headlines,” writes Mizuho’s Daniel O’Regan. Wall Street will get the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary revision of jobs growth for April 2024 through March 2025 on Tuesday, followed by the producer price index on Wednesday and the consumer price index on Thursday.

Investors look forward to a light week of reports and earnings, with inflation data taking center stage.

EchoStar has completely remade its balance sheet and its investment case. Now, it’s a primary way to invest in Elon Musk’s privately held space-technology company, SpaceX. Monday, EchoStar announced a deal to sell the company’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to SpaceX.

Consumer staples are one of a few defensive sectors that look set to outperform. They’re also cheap.

Strategy missed the cut for admission into the S&P 500 Friday when three additions were announced— AppLovin Robinhood Markets and Emcor —and it could be tough for the big Bitcoin holder to be chosen. The company looks more like an exchange-traded fund or closed-end fund than an operating company with ample recurring revenue and profits. The company’s strategy is to issue equity—mostly common stock and some preferred—and buy Bitcoin, making it a giant repository of the cryptocurrency.

Goldman Sachs' chief economist Jan Hatzius expects growth to be 'relatively slow' before beginning to improve in 2026 following the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts.

Tesla stock rose early Monday—a sign that cars simply don’t matter as much for the company as CEO Elon Musk and his artificial-intelligence ambitions—before slipping lower. The moves come after Friday’s 3.6% gain, catalyzed by Tesla’s 2025 proxy statement that outlined a new pay package for Musk worth roughly $1 trillion if all performance incentives were met. Tesla would also need to deliver 20 million vehicles, achieve 10 million active Full Self-Driving, or FSD, subscriptions, deliver one million Optimus humanoid robots, and have one million robo-taxis in commercial operation.

The Dow was down 14 points, or pretty much flat, after trading higher earlier in the morning. The Nasdaq, on the other hand, was still up 0.5% and on pace for a record close. Shares of tech companies and firms linked to artificial intelligence were buoying the S&P and boosting the Nasdaq.

Alphabet stock has been on a tear since a federal district court judge laid out what the company will have to do in response to his finding that the tech giant operates as a monopoly. Evercore ISI says the gains can continue. Analyst Mark Mahaney raised his price target on Alphabet to $300 from $240 on Sunday.

Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta spend huge sums on AI. Their spending won’t keep growing like it is now. That’s bad for all stocks.

The Earth imaging company posts better-than-expected revenue and a narrower-than-anticipated loss in its fiscal second quarter.

Yahoo Finance host Josh Lipton tracks today's top moving stocks and biggest market stories in this Market Minute, including the addition of Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Applovin (APP), and EMCOR (EME) to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) starting September 22; Broadcom (AVGO) inking a $10 billion AI chip deal with OpenAI; and Wells Fargo initiating coverage on Duolingo stock (DUOL). Stay up to date on the latest market action, minute-by-minute, with Yahoo Finance's Market Minute.

Of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors, only tech, consumer discretionary, industrials, and communication services were rising. Tech was the clear leader with a gain of 1%, followed by consumer discretionary with a 0.7% gain. Industrials were up 0.3%, while communication services were up 0.1%.

The Nasdaq Composite hit its highest level on record and was on track for a fresh closing high on a mixed Monday for the broader market. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%, but only because of contributions from Broadcom, Lam Research, Palantir Technologies, Nvidia, among other AI-linked stocks; roughly 318 stocks in the index were trading down on the day. The Dow was up 52 points, or 0.1%, after bouncing between small gains and losses.

QuantumScape a company that makes batteries for electric vehicles, gave a live demo Monday that clearly made investors happy. QuantumScape and “PowerCo SE,” Volkswagen’s battery company, took the opportunity at Munich’s the IAA Mobility auto show to show how QuantumScape’s solid-state lithium-metal batteries powered an EV. “This demonstration represents a significant advancement in battery technology, showcasing the first anode-free solid-state batteries to move from laboratory discovery to real-world vehicle,” said QuantumScape in a statement.

Shares of Strategy were falling Monday after the Bitcoin -treasury pioneer missed out on inclusion in the dashing hopes that would trigger a flow of investments from funds seeking to match the index’s performance. While Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy posted a profit last quarter, clearing the final hurdle required for potential inclusion, it didn’t make the cut. The decision won’t have come as a shock to seasoned investors, and it shouldn’t discourage those who have bet on the buzzy cryptocurrency company, argued Benchmark’s Mark Palmer, a longtime fan of the stock.

EchoStar announced Monday it reached a $17 billion cash-plus-stock agreement to sell the company’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to SpaceX. Spectrum—the frequencies over which wireless calls travel—is a finite resource that every mobile company needs. Just as you can’t have two radio stations in the same city broadcasting on the same frequency, companies such as AT&T Verizon Communications and T-Mobile US need spectrum for their customers’ calls and data.