{"id":435207,"date":"2026-08-01T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/broader-us-stock-indices-close-higher-but-near-key-technical-levels-heading-into-the-weekend-435207\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T03:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:02:40","slug":"broader-us-stock-indices-close-higher-but-near-key-technical-levels-heading-into-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/broader-us-stock-indices-close-higher-but-near-key-technical-levels-heading-into-the-weekend-435207\/","title":{"rendered":"Broader US stock indices close higher but near key technical levels heading into the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq both finished the week on a strong note, with the S&amp;P 500 gaining 0.70% and the Nasdaq rising roughly 1.00% on the day. Those gains pushed both indices into positive territory for the week and left them closing near their weekly highs. For the week, the S&amp;P 500 advanced 1.05%, while the Nasdaq climbed 1.59%.<\/p>\n<p>At the close:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<li>Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI): +278.05 points (+0.53%) to 52,491.26\n<\/li>\n<li>\nS&amp;P 500 (SPX): +52.17 points (+0.70%) to 7,489.81\n<\/li>\n<li>\nNasdaq Composite (IXIC): +251.68 points (+1.00%) to 25,373.85\n<\/li>\n<li>\nRussell 2000 (RUT): -14.76 points (-0.50%) to 2,931.34\n<\/li>\n<li>\nNasdaq 100 (NDX): +167.85 points (+0.60%) to 28,274.20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the price action was undeniably positive, the technical picture remains mixed. The S&amp;P 500 has managed to shift to a marginally bullish bias, suggesting buyers are beginning to regain control. The Nasdaq, however, still carries a marginally bearish technical outlook. Although today&#8217;s rally was encouraging, the index still has key technical hurdles to clear before the bias turns more decisively in favor of the bulls.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, I break down the technical outlook for both indices, explain why their signals are diverging, and highlight the key levels that will determine whether buyers can build on this week&#8217;s momentum or whether sellers reassert control in the week ahead.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq both finished the week on a strong note, with the S&amp;P 500 gaining 0.70% and the Nasdaq rising roughly 1.00% on the day. Those gains pushed both&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}