S&P 500 Closes Nearly Flat at 7,707 While the Dow Slips
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on September 24, 2026.
- S&P 500+0.01%
- Dow Jones Industrial Average-0.29%
- Nasdaq Composite-0.11%
The S&P 500 held its ground by less than a point while the Dow gave back 148, a split that says the bid is still parked in a narrow slice of the market. Track breadth here.
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The S&P 500 ended the session at 7,707.18, a gain of less than a single point and effectively a draw. The intraday path to get there was anything but quiet.
The index spent the bulk of the day in negative territory, dropping as much as roughly 0.6% before staging a recovery in the afternoon. Sellers had control for most of the session and still could not hold the index down at the close.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished lower by 0.29% and the Nasdaq Composite also edged lower. Both indexes staying in the red while the S&P 500 squeezed out a fractional gain points to strength concentrated in a narrow group of stocks rather than broad participation.
That kind of divergence between the major indexes is worth watching. When the headline index holds up but the others do not, it typically reflects a small number of large-cap names doing the heavy lifting, so breadth matters more than the index level itself.