{"id":89963,"date":"2026-05-05T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=89963"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:46:44","slug":"nasdaq-100-tops-28000-intel-rallies-13-stock-market-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=89963","title":{"rendered":"Nasdaq 100 Tops 28,000, Intel Rallies 13%: Stock Market Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <strong>Nasdaq 100 <\/strong>surged past 28,000 during Tuesday morning trading, setting a fresh record as AI-driven gains in semiconductor stocks continued to power the broader tech sector, defying pressure from elevated oil prices and geopolitical tension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>       \u2022\u00a0State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF shares are trending higher. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What\u2019s driving XLB shares up?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong>\u00a0climbed 0.8% to 7,259 by midday trading in New York, while the\u00a0<strong>Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/strong>\u00a0added 0.6% to 49,228 and the tech-heavy\u00a0<strong>Nasdaq 100<\/strong>\u00a0jumped 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Small-caps led the tape, with the\u00a0<strong>Russell 2000<\/strong>\u00a0rallying 1.6% to 2,840 as falling Treasury yields lifted rate-sensitive corners of the market. The <strong>CBOE Volatility Index<\/strong> slipped 4.6% to 17.45, signaling a notable easing of risk aversion.<\/p>\n<p>The driving force was a sharp drop in energy prices.<strong>\u00a0WTI crude\u00a0<\/strong>tumbled 4.1% to $102.08 a barrel and<strong>\u00a0Brent<\/strong>\u00a0slid 3.5% to $110.47 after President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> signaled progress in negotiations with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>10-year Treasury yield\u00a0<\/strong>ticked down to 4.07%, and the long bond eased to 4.42%, supporting interest-rate-sensitive sectors. The\u00a0<strong>U.S. Dollar Index\u00a0<\/strong>drifted lower as the euro firmed to 1.1700 and the British pound advanced to 1.3564.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold<\/strong>\u00a0added 0.9% to $4,562 an ounce, while\u00a0<strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) rebounded 1.9% to $81,404, lifting crypto-linked equities.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tuesday\u2019s Performance In Major U.S. Indices, ETFs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Index<\/th>\n<th>Last<\/th>\n<th>Change<\/th>\n<th>% Change<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>S&amp;P 500<\/td>\n<td>7,259.11<\/td>\n<td>+58.36<\/td>\n<td>+0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dow Jones Industrial &#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/26\/05\/52295587\/nasdaq-100-28000-points-record-highs-intel-rallies-on-aapl-apple-services-stock-market-today-tue?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Nasdaq\" tops intel rallies stock market today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nasdaq 100 surged past 28,000 during Tuesday morning trading, setting a fresh record as AI-driven gains in semiconductor stocks continued to power the broader tech sector, defying pressure from elevated oil prices and geopolitical tension. \u2022\u00a0State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF shares are trending higher. What\u2019s driving XLB shares up? The\u00a0S&amp;P 500\u00a0climbed 0.8% [&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-89963","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\/89963","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=89963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}