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Stock Market Today: Nasdaq-100 seeks 10th consecutive green day as Fed meeting begins

Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 9:57 AM 2 min read

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U.S. equities are now trading. Right out of the gate, indexes have dipped to day lows, with the Nasdaq (+0.06%), Russell 2000 (+0.05%), and S&P 500 (+0.01%) all barely in the green. The Dow (-0.13%) sits further into the red.

Most of today's most important reports are now out, starting with Retail Sales (Aug), which rose 0.6% in August (compared with a consensus of +0.2%).That's a healthy increase, but it also comes as import and export prices increased.

What's more, here are the prints from just now:

Retail Sales: +0.6% MoM [Prev: +0.6%] [Consensus: +0.2%]
Export Prices: +0.3% MoM [Prev: +0.3%] [Cons: 0%]
Import Prices: +0.3% MoM [Prev: +0.2%] [Cons: -0.1%]
Industrial Production: +0.1% MoM [Prev: -0.4%] [Cons: -0.1%]

With the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting set to begin today, investors will mostly be focused on the fruits of that meeting, which will come tomorrow when the central bank announces its new policy decision and issues a new dot plot. Commentary around the event has been contentious, with many analysts expecting it to be a "sell the news" event.

In the meantime, U.S. equities are seeing some small upside in pre-market trading. The Nasdaq (+0.24%) has a small lead on other indexes this morning. The S&P 500 (+0.17%), which just surpassed 6K and is looking for a new record, isn't far behind. The Dow (+0.01%) and Russell 2000 (-0.02%) are doing their own thing.

Also notable: the Nasdaq-100 (a subset of the larger Nasdaq exchange) is looking for its 10th consecutive all-time high today. We'll see if it can get there.

There's a few economic data points that will be garnering some attention today. Chief among them are Retail Sales for Aug. 2025.

However, market participants are also likely to be interested in Industrial Production for August and Business Inventories for July, among others. Here's the full list of reports that are inbound, along with their latest print and analysts' expectations as compiled: