{"id":31180,"date":"2025-06-10T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31180"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:31:42","slug":"small-caps-test-200-day-average-nasdaq-100-eyes-record-ahead-of-us-china-progress-whats-driving-markets-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31180","title":{"rendered":"Small Caps Test 200-Day Average, Nasdaq 100 Eyes Record Ahead Of US-China Progress: What&#8217;s Driving Markets Tuesday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. stocks ticked up on Tuesday, with investors closely watching for potential progress in ongoing U.S.-China trade negotiations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/econ-s\">taking place in London.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By midday in New York, the <strong>S&amp;P 500 <\/strong>and <strong>Nasdaq 100<\/strong> were both up 0.4%, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq reaching levels last seen on Feb. 21 \u2014 now just 1.5% below its record high.<\/p>\n<p>Small caps extended their recent outperformance versus large caps for a fourth straight session. The<strong> Russell 2000<\/strong> is now testing key resistance at its 200-day moving average, a closely watched technical level.<\/p>\n<p>Among sectors, energy led the gains, fueled by rising crude and gasoline prices. <strong>West Texas Intermediate crude <\/strong>climbed nearly 1% to $66 per barrel, the highest since April 4, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/25\/06\/45867225\/small-caps-test-200-day-average-nasdaq-100-eyes-record-ahead-of-us-china-progress-whats-driving-\" alt=\"Small\" caps test average nasdaq eyes record ahead of us-china progress: what driving markets tuesday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. stocks ticked up on Tuesday, with investors closely watching for potential progress in ongoing U.S.-China trade negotiations taking place in London. By midday in New York, the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were both up 0.4%, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq reaching levels last seen on Feb. 21 \u2014 now just 1.5% below its record [&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-31180","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\/31180","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=31180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}