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S&P 500 rose 0.7%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-10-03 · market close

S&P 500 closed at 7,722.72 on 2026-10-02, rose 0.7% on the session and is +12.8% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The S&P 500 closed at 7,722.72 on 2 October 2026, up 0.73% in a rally after soft jobs data that still left the index with a weekly loss. Investopedia reported that the Dow and the S&P 500 booked weekly losses even as the index rose on Friday; MarketWatch described a rally after soft jobs data even as bond yields rose.

The index sits 0.98% below its 52-week high of 7,798.99 and 21.74% above its 52-week low of 6,343.72. It is down 0.27% over the past week but up 0.73% over the past month, 2.46% over three months and 12.81% so far this year. It trades above its 50-day simple moving average of 7,657.64 and its 200-day average of 7,225.82.

Peers were mixed, and not all on the same clock. On 2 October, the same session as this close, the Nasdaq rose 1.19% and the Dow 0.49%. European bourses closed lower on 1 October: the FTSE 100 fell 1.68%, the DAX 1.03%, the CAC 40 1.62% and the Euro Stoxx 50 1.49%. In Asia, the Nikkei 225 rose 3.3%, the KOSPI 1.95% and the TAIEX 0.86% on 1 October, while the Sensex lost 0.79% and the ASX 200 fell 1.99%.

Company and index news coloured the week. A headline from Investing.com said Twilio will join the S&P 500 as part of an S&P Dow Jones reshuffle. Investor's Business Daily reported that futures rose, that the index found key support and that Micron's results beat views.

The data does not pin the session to one cause. The fresh headlines agree the day's rise followed soft jobs data and strength in chips, one naming Nvidia, but they disagree on whether bond yields helped or hurt, so the move's driver is not settled.

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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.