{"id":67114,"date":"2026-01-09T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67114"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:01:35","slug":"sp-500-russell-2000-soar-to-record-highs-silver-jumps-to-80-whats-moving-markets-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67114","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P 500, Russell 2000 Soar To Record Highs, Silver Jumps To $80: What&#8217;s Moving Markets Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wall Street found firm footing to close the week as solid but unspectacular jobs data eased fears of a sharp labor market slowdown while keeping <strong>Federal Reserve <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/federal-reserve\">rate-cut expectations intact.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>       \u2022 Vistra shares are powering higher. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/VST\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why is VST stock surging?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both the <strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong> and the<strong> Russell 2000<\/strong> climbed to fresh record highs, signaling a rally that has broadened across both large-cap and small-cap stocks. By midday trading in New York, the index of the 500 largest U.S. corporations broke above 6,970 points, up 0.7%. The Russell 2000 jumped up to 1.2% to 2,635, setting another all-time high and marking its fifth gain in the past six sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-chip stocks also hovered near record levels, with the <strong>Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/strong> trading around 49,555. The tech-heavy <strong>Nasdaq 100 <\/strong>advanced 1% but remained roughly two percentage points below its late-October peak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>December nonfarm payrolls<\/strong> rose by 50,000, slightly below expectations of 60,000, confirming a continued cooling in employment growth. The brighter signal came from the unemployment rate, which unexpectedly declined to 4.4% from 4.5%, suggesting the labor market &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/26\/01\/49821815\/markets-today-stock-market-news-friday-sp-500-russell-2000-record-highs-vistra-intel-rally-silve?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"S&amp;P\" russell soar to record highs silver jumps what moving markets friday>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street found firm footing to close the week as solid but unspectacular jobs data eased fears of a sharp labor market slowdown while keeping Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations intact. \u2022 Vistra shares are powering higher. Why is VST stock surging? Both the S&amp;P 500 and the Russell 2000 climbed to fresh record highs, signaling [&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-67114","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\/67114","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=67114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}