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Nasdaq rose 0.7%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-26 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,151.30 on 2026-08-25, rose 0.7% on the session and is +12.5% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite closed at 26151.3 on August 25, up 0.66% for the session. The move edged the index to within 3.48% of its 52-week high of 27093.9 and 25.76% above its 52-week low of 20794.64, leaving it comfortably above both its 50-day average of 25959.18 and its 200-day average of 24268.26.

Over the longer stretch the picture is mixed. The index is up 12.52% year to date and 4.89% over the past month, but it slipped 0.53% in the past week and 1.89% over the past three months, so the recent advance has not fully repaired the quarterly setback.

Among its most recent closes, the S&P 500 rose 0.32% and the Dow added 0.3% on August 25, so the US majors moved broadly together that day. Other markets closed on earlier dates: Europe's FTSE 100 rose 0.35% and the DAX fell 0.11% on August 24, while Asia was softer, with the Hang Seng down 1.89% and the Shanghai composite off 0.59% that same session. More recent sessions saw the Nikkei ease 0.14% and the KOSPI gain 0.99% on August 26, and Australia's ASX 200 rise 1.01%.

The news context was uneven. A report from The Globe and Mail described the Nasdaq "floating" as oil prices sank and memory stocks recovered, while a Goodreturns piece framed the prior day's tech selloff as having pushed the Nasdaq and Nasdaq 100 down by roughly 200 to 300 points. A Motley Fool midday note from August 24 said chip weakness was pressuring the Nasdaq even as the Dow edged higher.

The data establishes a modest single-session gain that keeps the index near the top of its yearly range, on a day when the other US benchmarks also advanced. It does not establish a single clear driver for the move, and the mixed three-month trend argues against reading the 0.66% rise as the start of a decisive turn.

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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.