by David French

New York (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange ended up on Thursday, the S & P -500 and the NASDAQ stands for records, while investors’ confidence has been fed by solid economic data and reassuring quarterly results, highlighting resilience of American consumer.

The Dow Jones index won 0.52%, or 229.71 points, at 44,484.49 points.

The wider S&P-500 took 33.66 points, or 0.54%, at 6,297.36 points.

The Nasdaq Composite advanced 153.78 points (0.74%) at 20,884.27 points.

S & P-500 and Nasdaq recently multiplied the closing peaks: six since June 27 for the S & P-500, and six in the last seven sessions for the Nasdaq.

These earnings confirm the rebound of the main clues of Wall Street which had plunged, in early April, following what American president Donald Trump presented as “Liberation Day” (Liberation Day): the announcement of large so-called “reciprocal” customs taxes “against dozens of trade partners in the United States, ultimately suspended for the most part.

The current week was considered a test for investor confidence, between the start of the quarterly results and highly anticipated data on inflation.

Quarterly and economic data results “show that the economic situation is still quite solid,” said Anthony Saglimbene, chief strategist of American Financial. “So the markets were able to climb (…)”.

A report published Thursday shows that retail sales in the United States has significantly rebounded in June, illustrating in the eyes of investors an economic breath and a renewed confidence among consumers.

Data published earlier in the week had drawn up a mixed inflation table, between stable production prices and a rebound in consumer prices in the United States last month.

Investors are watching for the potential economic repercussions of Donald Trump’s commercial policy, while the American Federal Reserve (Fed) repeated that it was waiting to assess the impact of customs duties to modify its monetary policy.

According to Fedwatch of CME, traders are now only about 54% over a drop in rates in September.

In parallel with reassuring retail sales, the press releases from several large American companies contributed to the optimism of the market.

Pepsico jumped 7.5% after saying to anticipate a lower drop than expected from its annual profit. United Airlines took 3.1% as a result of solid forecasts for demand for the summer period, a rare thinning for an airline impacted in particular by trade tensions. Delta and American Airlines also ended up.

In the wake of the record quarterly benefit announced by TSMC, which won 3.4%, semiconductor manufacturers and the technological sector as a whole recorded gains, including Nvidia, which took 1%.

Nine from the eleven major sectors of the S&P-500 have finished in the green, with finance in mind, up 0.9%.

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(Written by Jean Terzian)

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