U.S. stock futures climbed in New York on September 25, 2026, as Treasury yields and oil prices retreated from recent surges. The relief rally followed a volatile week marked by the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike in three years and ongoing energy supply pressures.
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Equity futures pushed higher in New York on Friday morning, driven by a pullback in both Treasury yields and global oil benchmarks. Contracts tied to the S&P 500 rose 0.4% at 7:26 a.m. on Friday, while Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.7%, according to reporting from Geoffrey Morgan and Sagarika Jaisinghani in Bloomberg.
The upward momentum on Friday followed a choppy trading week across Wall Street. On Thursday, U.S. equities bounced back from losses recorded after the Federal Reserve implemented a quarter-percentage-point increase to the overnight federal funds rate—its first rate hike in three years. Tech drove the broader market higher, with Magnificent Seven
names Nvidia and Amazon rising more than 2% each, while Microsoft gained 1.5%.
Market Relief Follows Treasury Yield Stabilization and Energy Drop
Despite lingering concerns over monetary policy, traders welcomed a temporary cooling in bond yields and energy costs. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield eased below 5%, dropping more than 7 basis points lower to 4.93% after rising back above that key level Wednesday following the Fed’s rate decision. The U.S. 10-year Treasury also eased slightly to around 5.17% early Friday, after rising above 5.20% on Thursday from around 5.11% Wednesday, as noted by the Associated Press.
Market participants described the late-week price action as a sigh of relief. The market’s reaction could be kind of summed up in one word: relief, said Robert Conzo, CEO at The Wealth Alliance, in an interview detailing Thursday’s trading session. I think there is a relief that, ‘Hey the Fed is addressing a sticky inflation problem.’
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Energy markets also provided a cushion for equities as oil prices slid. U.S. crude closed down 0.51% at $101.91 per barrel, while Brent slid 0.95% to close at $104.82 a barrel. While U.S. equities climbed on Thursday—with the Dow Jones Industrial Average advancing 316.14 points, or 0.61%, to settle at 51,778.04; the S&P 500 up 1.14% at 7,637.76; and the Nasdaq Composite adding 1.69% to reach 26,418.30—money managers cautioned that sustained high commodity prices could easily reignite consumer price pressures. On Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 on Thursday, the index was almost unchanged, edging down less than 0.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.3%, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite climbed less than 0.1%.
Global Trading Mixed as Investors Weigh Macroeconomic Pressures
International equity markets showed mixed results on Friday following the stabilization of global bond markets. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 1.3% to 66,364.20, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 1% to 24,510.09 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.4% to 8,665.00. Meanwhile, markets in mainland China, Taiwan, and South Korea were closed because of a holiday.
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