{"id":5486,"date":"2026-10-02T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/stock-market-rallies-on-friday-oct-2-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:54:14","slug":"stock-market-rallies-on-friday-oct-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/stock-market-rallies-on-friday-oct-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Market Rallies on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEW YORK \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) Stock Market \u2013 U.S. stocks rallied Friday, with the Nasdaq Composite leading Wall Street higher after a surprisingly weak September employment report substantially reduced expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again at its October meeting. The rally gave investors an upbeat finish to a volatile week marked by surging Treasury yields, elevated energy prices, persistent inflation concerns, and uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserve\u2019s next move. The S&amp;P 500 rose 0.7% Friday to close at 7,722.72, according to finalized market data reported by The Associated Press. The Dow Jones Industrial<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/stock-market-rallies-on-friday-oct-2-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) Stock Market \u2013 U.S. stocks rallied Friday, with the Nasdaq Composite leading Wall Street higher after a surprisingly weak September employment report substantially reduced expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5488,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/5488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}