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Nasdaq fell 0.9%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-09-29 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,820.38 on 2026-09-28, fell 0.9% on the session and is +15.4% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.92% on Monday, 28 September, closing at 26820.38. The data in this wrap covers that session, the latest close available, rather than the day the job was raised. The move added to a soft stretch: the index was down 1.11% over the past week, though it was still up 1.05% over one month and 3.87% over three months.

Monday's drop left the index close to the top of its range. It finished 1.56% below its 52-week high of 27244.28 and 28.98% above its 52-week low of 20794.64. It also stayed above both of its main moving averages, which are average closing prices over a set number of sessions: the 50-day at 26195.53 and the 200-day at 24658.49. For the year to date, the Nasdaq Composite was up 15.4%.

The other major US benchmarks fell on the same day. The S&P 500 lost 0.77% and the Dow slipped 0.67%, so the Nasdaq's decline was the steepest of the three but part of a broad pullback rather than a tech-only move.

Other markets' latest closes fall on different dates, so they do not describe one shared session. In Asia on 29 September, a day after the US drop, the Nikkei fell 1.64% and the KOSPI dropped 3.18%, while the ASX 200 edged up 0.14%. The most recent European figures are older, from 25 September: the DAX rose 0.56%, the Euro Stoxx 50 gained 0.48%, the FTSE 100 added 0.14% and the CAC 40 was nearly flat, down 0.04%. The Hang Seng lost 1.01% and India's Sensex and Nifty 50 rose 0.43% and 0.34% on that same date, while the latest readings for Shanghai (down 1.22%) and TAIEX (down 0.28%) date from 24 September.

News around the session was thin. A headline from The Motley Fool said a record Nvidia buyback had not kept the Nasdaq out of the red on Monday morning, which matches the direction of the day but does not explain its size. A TradingKey headline from about six days earlier reported that the Composite had hit a record high, which fits the index sitting only a short distance below its 52-week peak. Most of the other headlines in the pack were general guides and fund pieces with no link to the day's trading.

What the data shows is a broad US decline of just under one percent that left the Nasdaq Composite above its moving averages and near its high. It does not establish a single driver for the move. The weaker Asian closes that came afterward followed the US session, but the pack does not show that one caused the other.

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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.