{"id":42035,"date":"2025-08-13T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:01:35","slug":"small-caps-rally-amd-hits-13-month-highs-whats-moving-markets-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42035","title":{"rendered":"Small Caps Rally, AMD Hits 13-Month Highs: What&#8217;s Moving Markets Wednesday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tech-heavy indices were little moved on Wednesday, while small caps and blue chips surged as investors rotated into lagging names, signaling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\">a broadening market rally.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>IWM ETF is breaking a key technical resistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IWM\">Check the chart here.<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By midday in New York, the S&amp;P 500 edged up 0.1% to 6,450, retreating slightly from a new all-time high of 6,480 hit earlier in the session. The Nasdaq 100 was unchanged, also setting new record highs during the session but failing to break the psychological 24,000-point mark. The Dow gained 0.7%, building on Tuesday&#8217;s 1.1% rise.<\/p>\n<p>Small caps extended their strong run, with the Russell 2000 up 1.3% after a 3% jump on Tuesday \u2014 putting it on track for its best two-day rally since April 9.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary <strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> intensified calls for the Federal Reserve to cut rates in September, urging a 50-basis-point reduction to make up for what he called missed cuts in June and July, had labor<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/economic-data\/25\/08\/47088535\/scott-bessent-federal-reserve-trump-putin-meeting-interest-rates\"> market data been accurate.<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/25\/08\/47101089\/markets-today-wall-street-wednesday-amd-ge-vernova-small-caps-bessent\" alt=\"Small\" caps rally amd hits highs: what moving markets wednesday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech-heavy indices were little moved on Wednesday, while small caps and blue chips surged as investors rotated into lagging names, signaling a broadening market rally. IWM ETF is breaking a key technical resistance. Check the chart here. By midday in New York, the S&amp;P 500 edged up 0.1% to 6,450, retreating slightly from a new [&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-42035","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\/42035","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=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}