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Nasdaq rose 0.5%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-13 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,588.49 on 2026-08-12, rose 0.5% on the session and is +14.4% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite ended its August 12 session at 26,588.49, a gain of 0.54% on the day. That was a firmer showing than the other two big American gauges managed on the same date, though the move itself was ordinary rather than dramatic.

Where that close sat in the index's own trend is easier to pin down than why it happened. The reading left the technology-heavy benchmark 1.87% below its 52-week high of 27,093.9 and 27.86% above the 52-week low of 20,794.64, nearer the top of its yearly band than the bottom. It also sat above its 50-day moving average of 25,914.93 and its 200-day average of 24,145.46 - the average closing prices of the last 50 and 200 sessions, used as rough trend markers. Year to date the index was ahead 14.4%, while the nearer windows were milder: 0.85% over a week, 1.84% over a month and 1.92% over three months.

Peer markets in this pack do not share one date, so they describe a sequence rather than a simultaneous session. Carrying the same August 12 stamp as the Nasdaq, the S&P 500 added 0.26% and the Dow sat a fraction lower at 0.04%. European and Asian readings belong to the next day, August 13: the DAX rose 0.54%, the Euro Stoxx 50 0.55% and the CAC 40 0.2%, while the FTSE 100 eased 0.19%. On that later date the KOSPI stood clear of the field at 3.56%, ahead of the Nikkei at 1.16% and the TAIEX at 1.11%, while Shanghai fell 0.5% and the Nifty 50 slipped 0.16%.

News in the pack does not resolve into one story. A report from TradingKey attributed the advance to memory-chip names and cited SK Hynix and SpaceX, while an earlier recap from the same publisher described US stocks closing lower, with SpaceX down nearly 4% and SK Hynix up more than 4%. Goodreturns reported that US futures were trading mixed on August 13 and posed its own question about the muted response to a softer inflation print.

Two older items sit further from this close: a Globe and Mail piece from three days earlier, built on a rare historical pattern and framed in promotional language this wrap does not borrow, and an NBC News report from more than a fortnight ago describing the Nasdaq-100 dropping into correction as chip and memory shares sold off.

What the evidence supports is the arithmetic: a moderate advance, a level close to the yearly peak, and both trend averages sitting below the price. It does not establish a single driver. The nearest headlines gesture at memory chips and at an inflation reading, neither confirmed here, and two recaps from one publisher point in opposite directions across consecutive sessions.

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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.