A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Sept. 3, 2025. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Stocks ended the first trading week of September with most major indexes posting weekly gains, as a flurry of weak labor market headlines raised expectations for an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve later in the month.
Meanwhile, strong earnings from semiconductor giant Broadcom, the announcement of a partnership between Goldman Sachs and T. Rowe Price, and a favorable court ruling for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, contributed to positive investor sentiment.
