{"id":24935,"date":"2025-05-02T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24935"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:33:16","slug":"wall-street-eyes-9th-straight-day-of-gains-apple-falls-as-chinese-sales-disappoint-whats-driving-markets-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24935","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Eyes 9th Straight Day Of Gains, Apple Falls As Chinese Sales Disappoint: What&#8217;s Driving Markets Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. stocks advanced across the board by midday Friday, with the S&amp;P 500 eyeing its ninth consecutive day of gains\u2014poised for the longest winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\">streak since May 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Risk appetite remained firm, underpinned by solid corporate earnings and a stronger-than-expected April jobs report. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 177,000, beating expectations of 130,000 and easing concerns over tariff-related hiring slowdowns.<\/p>\n<p>All eleven S&amp;P 500 sectors traded in positive territory, led slightly by financials over technology. Major indexes have now fully recovered from the declines sparked on April 2, when President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> announced sweeping tariffs across trading partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Nasdaq 100 climbed to levels last seen in late March, capping a strong week for tech stocks. Among the Magnificent Seven, all were on pace to close the week higher except <strong>Apple Inc<\/strong>. (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/AAPL#NASDAQ\">AAPL<\/a>), which slipped 4% as strong earnings were overshadowed by weaker sales in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/economics\/macro-economic-events\/25\/05\/45172683\/wall-street-eyes-9th-straight-day-of-gains-apple-falls-as-chinese-sales-disappoin\" alt=\"Wall\" street eyes straight day of gains apple falls as chinese sales disappoint: what driving markets friday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. stocks advanced across the board by midday Friday, with the S&amp;P 500 eyeing its ninth consecutive day of gains\u2014poised for the longest winning streak since May 2024. Risk appetite remained firm, underpinned by solid corporate earnings and a stronger-than-expected April jobs report. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 177,000, beating expectations of 130,000 and easing concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-24935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}