Strota/ Newsroom/ Global Markets/ 2026-08-04

Nasdaq rose 1.0%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-04 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 25,373.85 on 2026-07-31, rose 1.0% on the session and is +9.2% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite closed at 25,913.9 on 3 August 2026, a gain of 2.13% on the session and the strongest single-day move among the major United States benchmarks that day. It capped a firm stretch for the tech-heavy index, which was up 3.94% over the past week.

Zoom out and the picture is more mixed. Over the past month the index was essentially flat, up 0.31%, while the three-month gain stood at 3.18% and the year-to-date advance at 11.5%. The close left the index 4.36% below its 52-week high of 27,093.9 and 24.62% above its 52-week low of 20,794.64 — comfortably in the upper part of its one-year range, but not at the top of it. On the trend measures, the Composite finished just under its 50-day moving average of 25,941.29, meaning the average close of the last fifty sessions was fractionally higher than the latest close, while remaining well clear of its 200-day moving average of 24,015.02. In plain terms: the longer-run uptrend was intact, the shorter-run one was still being repaired.

Peer markets in the pack carry different as-of dates, because exchanges around the world close at different hours, so these are each market's most recent close rather than a single synchronised session. Among the US indices dated the same day, the S&P 500 rose 1.48% and the Dow 1.32%, both lagging the Composite. The Asia-Pacific readings dated 4 August were split: the Nikkei fell 1.81% and the KOSPI dropped 6.49%, while Australia's ASX 200 added 0.98%. European and other Asian entries were last marked on 31 July, with the FTSE 100 down 0.27%, the DAX up 0.07%, the CAC 40 up 0.28%, the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.21%, Hang Seng up 0.1%, Shanghai up 0.72%, the Sensex up 0.21%, the Nifty 50 up 0.27% and the TAIEX up 7.98%.

The news file offers context rather than a confirmed cause. A headline from Benzinga tied a rally in the Nasdaq 100 to talks involving Iran alongside a sharp drop in oil, and a piece from MarketWatch argued that a technical indicator was extending the bull market. Set against that, older headlines pointed the other way: NBC News reported that the Nasdaq-100 had slid into correction as chip and memory shares sold off globally, and The New York Times reported tech weakness on concerns about artificial-intelligence spending and Chinese chips.

None of that establishes a single driver. The evidence pack contains no economic release, earnings figure or policy decision attached to the session itself, so the honest reading is that a broad advance happened across US equities, with the Composite leading, and the data here does not show why.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.