Dow closes above 17K for first time since August

Dow closes above 17K for first time since August, U.S. stocks bankrupt college Thursday, with the Dow and S&P aloft key cerebral levels, as investors digested the Fed's September affair minutes.

"I anticipate the aggregate of oil (gains) and the Fed account accept aerial the indices here," said Peter Cardillo, arch bazaar economist at Rockwell All-around Capital, acquainted the account beneath the likelihood of a amount backpack this year.

The Dow bankrupt about 140 credibility college to abutting aloft 17,000 for the aboriginal time back Aug. 19. Earlier, the basis acquired added than 150 credibility to authority aloft 17,000 in intraday barter for the aboriginal time back Aug. 20. IBM and Nike contributed the a lot of to assets and Apple was the greatest abrogating weight.

The Nasdaq recovered losses to abutting higher. Apple bankrupt down about 1.2 percent and the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) bankrupt down 0.2 percent afterwards falling added than 3 percent.

The S&P bankrupt up 0.9 percent, closing aloft the psychologically key akin of 2,000 for the aboriginal time back Aug. 20. The basis briefly biconcave into abrogating area in inclement barter afterward the minutes.

The endure time the S&P 500 topped 2,000 in intraday barter was on Sept. 17, if the Federal Reserve appear its statement.

Energy captivated higher, as awkward oil futures hit $50 a butt for the aboriginal time back July. Awkward acclimatized up 3.4 percent at $49.43 a barrel.

Treasury yields came off affair highs afore axis higher, with the 10-year at 2.11 percent and the 2-year college at 0.64 percent.

Earlier, the Treasury Department auctioned $13 billion of 30-year bonds at a top crop of 2.914 percent.

The U.S. dollar traded lower adjoin above apple currencies, with the euro briefly topping $1.13 and the yen at 119.99 yen adjoin the greenback.

The September affair account adumbrated that policymakers were anxious about aggrandizement and slower all-around growth.

"I anticipate you got a little added accuracy on what the Fed was thinking. The accommodation to not accession ante was added collaborative than humans thought. The alarm absolutely wasn't that close," said Peter Coleman, arch banker at Convergex. He added the account showed the Fed was still anxious about not extensive its aggrandizement target.

Since the Fed affair was captivated on Sept. 16 and 17, the account didn't reflect the axial bank's appearance on endure Friday's weaker-than-expected nonfarm payrolls report.

Many bazaar analysts accepted the U.S. axial coffer to accession concise absorption ante for the aboriginal time in about a decade at its September meeting. The Fed's accommodation to authority off on a backpack acquired abundant ambiguity in markets about policymakers' angle on calm and all-around bread-and-butter conditions.

"The (minutes) didn't accord the bazaar any accuracy on if ascent would action and markets were acquisitive for added guidance," said Myles Clouston, arch administrator at Nasdaq.

Netflix recovered from a abatement to billow added than 5 percent on account that the alive behemothic will backpack prices on the accepted plan by $1 a ages to $9.99.

Investors aswell eyed the hasty account that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has aloof from the chase for House Speaker, abacus to apropos on Congress' adeptness to calmly boldness acute account negotiations.

"Obviously we charge anyone to be Apostle of the House and no one's adopting their hand," said Art Hogan, arch bazaar architect at Wunderlich Securities. "If it's harder to accept a apostle of the House it's traveling to be that harder to get something passed."

Other analysts remained assured Congress would ability a accord on the debt ceiling.

In a ablaze day of bread-and-butter reports, account abandoned claims beneath to 263,000, a abreast 42-year low.

In Europe, the pan-European Stoxx 600 basis bankrupt agilely higher. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei accomplished 0.99 percent lower. Mainland Chinese markets reopened afterwards a week-long holiday, with the Shanghai Composite closing 3.0 percent higher.

U.S. stocks bankrupt college Wednesday, helped by a accretion in bloom affliction stocks and assets in energy, as investors accessible the alpha of balance season.

"We saw the bazaar assemblage acutely endure anniversary off a actual cogent akin of abutment at the August low," said Adam Sarhan, CEO of Sarhan Capital. He acclaimed attrition about the 50-day affective averages.

"The bears are still in ascendancy because we're still beneath levels of abutment and beneath the (key) affective averages," he said.

On tap this week:

Thursday

Earnings: Alcoa, Ruby Tuesday

4:30 p.m.: Fed Balance Sheet/Money Supply

Friday

8:30 a.m.: Import prices

10 a.m.: Wholesale trade

11 a.m.: New York Fed President's William Dudley speaks

1 p.m.: Baker-Hughes Rig Count

1:30 p.m.: Chicago Fed President's Charles Evans speaks
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