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Nvidia Did the Heavy Lifting for the Major Market Indexes Today

The major indexes rose about 0.4% Wednesday. Nvidia and Meta Platforms did nearly all of the work. Here's the math behind the quiet tape.

Nvidia Did the Heavy Lifting for the Major Market Indexes Today

Published September 2, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Some days, the market has a plot. Today, it's a collective shrug.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was up 0.4% as of 12:55 p.m. ET, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) added 0.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) rose 0.4%. All three indexes opened lower, and the Dow enjoyed a short-lived spike around 11 a.m. ET. But it's a pretty tight bundle of gains just below 0.5% as of this writing.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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