*From Sept. 8 closing price, per Bank of America price targets.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.09% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.13%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.52%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) are up +0.

The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rose over 2 percent, to about $105 a barrel on Thursday. The Brent price had fallen below $100 on Tuesday. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, was trading around $94 a barrel.

The S&P 500 was up 0.6% early on Monday, the Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.9% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average bumped up 0.3% as oil prices fell.

Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street closed lower following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike decision for the first time in three years.

Investors started the week with a dose of relief from a sharp drop in oil prices amid a somewhat calm period in the Middle East, and that sent stocks broadly higher at the open. The oil-price drop also sent Treasury yields lower,

India, Sept. 24 -- The government has reduced import duties on major edible oils at a time when domestic vegetable-oil prices have increased by nearly 20% over the past year. The timing is significant as India enters the September-November festive period,

India, Sept. 24 -- The UK equity market faced pressure on Thursday, September 24, 2026, with the FTSE 100 falling in its initial trading sessions amid increased yields in government bonds, higher prices of crude oil,

U.S. futures were higher, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters following talks Sunday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York ahead of the two leaders’ meeting that the U.S. had “a very successful engagement” with the Chinese side.