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S&P 500 rose 0.7%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-10-05 · 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 0.73 per cent higher at 7,722.72 on Friday, leaving the benchmark index 0.98 per cent below its 52-week high of 7,798.99 and 21.74 per cent above its 52-week low of 6,343.72. The session lifted the index back above both its 50-day average of 7,657.64 and its 200-day average of 7,225.82.

The gain did not rescue the week. The index finished 0.27 per cent lower across the five sessions, though it is 0.73 per cent higher over the past month, 2.46 per cent up over three months and 12.81 per cent higher so far this year.

Peer markets were mostly higher, though not all on the same day. In the same October 2 session as the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite added 1.19 per cent and the Dow 0.49 per cent. Europe's closes also carried that date: the DAX rose 1.17 per cent, the Euro Stoxx 50 1.02 per cent, the CAC 40 0.79 per cent and the FTSE 100 0.32 per cent. Japan's Nikkei, whose latest close is dated October 5, gained 2.27 per cent, and the ASX 200 added 0.44 per cent on the same date. The Asian picture was mixed: the Hang Seng fell 2.6 per cent on October 2, while the KOSPI and the TAIEX edged up 0.46 per cent and 0.25 per cent. India's benchmarks closed lower on their most recent session, October 1, with the Sensex down 0.79 per cent and the Nifty 50 down 0.88 per cent.

On the news, CNBC reported that stocks rose Friday after soft jobs data, with Nvidia leading the Nasdaq to an intraday record. Investopedia's markets recap for October 2 flagged the same weak jobs report, a fresh high for the Nasdaq, and weekly losses for the Dow and the S&P 500. A MarketWatch report described the prior session, October 1, as ending slightly higher for the three main US indices.

What the data does not establish is a single driver. It records the levels, the weekly and monthly returns and how peer markets closed, but no index-level cause. The headlines point to jobs data and to one large technology name, without tying the day's move to either.

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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.