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How did the US stock market perform today, including the major indices, the biggest movers, and what drove them?

September 14, 2026

Research Report

Question: You are a rigorous financial research analyst. Ground EVERY quantitative claim in data you actually pulled from the finance tools — never invent a price, multiple, or indicator. Answer the REQUEST below by:

  1. Identifying the specific publicly-tradable assets (tickers) it concerns. When the request is open-ended (e.g. "top up-and-coming tech companies"), first find concrete candidates: use finance_data (action=search) to resolve names to tickers, and web search / the browser for qualitative discovery.
  2. For EVERY ticker you discuss, pull real data with the finance tools:
  1. Writing a concise report: a short investment thesis for each asset (why it is interesting, grounded in the pulled price/fundamentals/news/insider data), then a summary table with columns: Ticker | Price | 1d% | 5d% | 20d% | RSI | P/E | Trend. Rank assets by thesis strength, cite notable news/insider signals, and clearly flag any ticker you could not fetch.

REQUEST: How did the US stock market perform today, including the major indices, the biggest movers, and what drove them?

Date: 2026-09-14T04:50:02.571545499+00:00

Coverage window: 2026-09-14 – 2026-09-14

Rounds: 1

Status: PARTIAL

Objective check — 0 of 6 criteria met

The run produced work, but the objective below is not fully achieved. Each unmet criterion names what is still outstanding.

Evidence: 120 claims · 55 sourced · 9 partial · 3 unsupported · 52 self-reported (no independent source) · 26 single-source

Executive Summary

As of 2026-09-14, there is no completed US session to report. Every market-data path reached returns a final daily bar of 2026-09-11 13:30 UTC for equities and ETFs, and the ^GSPC / ^IXIC / ^DJI / ^RUT index symbols return "no data on any exchange" across 17 venues attempted. The 2026-09-14 cash-session close for the S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow and Russell 2000 is therefore unfetched, and the biggest movers and sector leaders for the session are unfetched with it. I am not substituting Friday's tape for them.

What is dated 2026-09-14 is premarket and 24-hour-market data — and it points down, led by tech:

In-window print (2026-09-14)Level / moveTime (UTC)Source
S&P futures−0.47%04:15https://squawknews.com/brief/livecast/2026-09-14
Nasdaq futures−1.22%04:15same
Dow futures−0.09%04:15same
Russell futures−0.19%04:15same
US500 CFD (S&P proxy)7,618, −0.52% vs prior session12:00https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
WTI crude+3.21%04:13https://squawknews.com/brief/livecast/2026-09-14
Gold−0.87%04:13same
Dollar index+0.2%04:13same
USD/JPY154.02, +0.3%02:51https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9761170/Dollaryen-rises-03-to-15402.aspx

The one catalogue of the session I could fetch — the US500 CFD at 7,618, −0.52% — is timestamped 08:00 ET, i.e. pre-open, so it is a premarket indication, not a close.

Major indices — 2026-09-14 close: UNFETCHED

No 2026-09-14 index level exists in any source reached. For anchor only, below is the last completed session, Friday 2026-09-11 — explicitly not today's performance, and it must not be read as such.

TickerPrice (9/11)1d%5d%20d%RSIP/ETrend
SPX (S&P 500)7,656.98+0.86%−1.17%−1.82%50.00unfetchedstrong_uptrend
NDX (Nasdaq-100)29,368.44+0.91%−0.39%−2.38%unfetchedunfetchedunfetched
DJI (Dow, TVC)52,578.27+0.98%−2.07%−2.35%44.85unfetcheddowntrend
RUT (Russell 2000)2,903.94+0.45%−2.17%−4.88%unfetchedunfetchedunfetched
SPY764.29+0.852%−1.149%−1.747%50.31unfetchedstrong_uptrend
QQQ714.88+0.873%−0.389%−2.348%50.77unfetchedstrong_uptrend
DIA525.79+0.968%−2.075%−2.253%45.10unfetcheddowntrend
IWM288.89+0.414%−2.134%−4.814%38.69unfetcheddowntrend
VIX15.84−11.211%+10.615%+8.271%50.39unfetchedstrong_downtrend

Sources: finance_data action=analyze / action=quote, all rows last_bar: 2026-09-11 13:30:00; VIX from the same analyze pull. Friday's Dow print is independently corroborated by https://stockmarketwatch.com/indices/dowjones/today, whose body describes the 9/11 close at 52,573.29 (+509.19, +0.98%).

Caveats on the table: P/E is unfetched for every row (no action=fundamentals call completed). The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) is unverified — one pull returned 26,333.04 at +0.96%, but other attempts returned "no data"; NDX is the Nasdaq-100 and is not a stand-in. A DJI CFD variant on FOREXCOM showed 52,507.60 with a last_bar of 2026-09-13 21:00 (Sunday reopen) and a −0.09% "1d" move — that is a weekend CFD tick, not a session move, and contradicts the DIA/equity feed; do not use it.

Biggest movers — 2026-09-14: premarket only, no closing tape

The only in-window mover list is premarket (04:00–09:30 ET), price-less, and its own on-page table rendered "No data available yet." Source: https://premarketprice.com/premarket-movers.

Tickers and premarket %
GainersHPE +12.37, DELL +12.31, NTAP +8.67, ON +8.38, HPQ +8.20, CDW +7.85, MEI +7.80, M +7.46, SMCI +7.04, HDB +6.64, DSGX +6.53, FIX +6.24, MRNA +5.78, ANET +5.56, SWKS +5.52
LosersFMC −5.51, UEC −4.63, SNDK −3.67, SQM −3.64, STX −3.63, ALB −3.60, PODC −3.16, ORCL −3.10, CRML −2.98, INCY −2.96, WDC −2.92, NU −2.63, CPRT −2.57, OKTA −2.55, UNH −2.45

The upside cluster is coherent and large-cap (enterprise IT hardware, storage, AI-infrastructure: HPE, DELL, NTAP, HPQ, CDW, SMCI); the downside cluster is lithium/uranium/chemicals plus legacy storage. But it is a premarket signature, internally inconsistent (SNDK/STX/WDC fall while NTAP/CDW/HPE rally), and it did not persist into any close I can observe. No confirmed S&P 500 or Nasdaq-100 closing mover list for 2026-09-14 exists in the sources reached.

Two mover sources are rejected outright: https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stock-screener/biggest-stock-gainers-today (NFE "+4,893.94%" beside a $0.23 52-week low is a reverse-split artifact; the rest are sub-$3 microcaps) and https://weeklytrader.io/losers.php (AAPL $157.89, MSFT $65.56, WMT $340.03 — impossible levels, page simultaneously says "Market Closed" at 00:42 ET). Treated as unusable; the wallstreetzen list also carries no visible as-of timestamp tying it to the 9/14 close.

What drove it

No verified 2026-09-14 index move exists to attribute a driver to. With that constraint stated, the in-window catalyst set is:

Explicitly not established: the "AI-slowdown warning" narrative is a search snippet from a Bloomberg page whose URL is dated 2026-09-13 — outside the window — and the fetch was blocked (bot protection). It is background only and is not used to explain any 2026-09-14 move. Likewise, no US macro release or Fed event dated 2026-09-14 is verified. The heavy data landed the prior week (Sep 10 PPI, Sep 11 CPI), and the FOMC decision was scheduled for Wed Sep 16 with the prior target range at 3.50–3.75% — a secondary-sourced claim from calendar aggregators, not confirmed against federalreserve.gov.

Analysis

The gap is structural, not editorial. Three independent tool behaviors agree that the 9/14 cash session had not produced a bar at snapshot time: finance_data terminates at 2026-09-11 13:30 UTC for every equity/ETF; finance_insider's newest Form 4 is 2026-09-11 21:59:18; and the news wire's newest item is 2026-09-14T03:51:38Z (23:51 ET Sunday). The 24-hour markets do carry a fresh bar (Sunday 21:00–23:00 UTC), which is why cross-asset data exists and cash-equity closes do not. Whether the session had later closed, or simply had not opened when the tools were pulled, is ambiguous from the evidence — but either way no close was retrievable.

Two traps worth naming, because both are dressed as 9/14 data. First, https://stockmarketwatch.com/indices/dowjones/today is titled "Dow Jones Today — Sep 14, 2026" but its body narrates Friday, September 11 (Dow 52,573.29, +0.98%, on a cooling PPI report), and its own table contradicts its own narrative on NVDA ($218.29 vs $225.01) and MMM ($164.97 vs $148.62). Second, https://vittarthi.com/markets/us is titled "US Stock Market Today Sep 14, 2026 — S&P 500, Dow & Nasdaq Close" but every module (Key Indices, Top Movers, breadth, sectors) renders empty, and its generator stamp is 04:30 UTC — pre-market. Both are premarket templates, not recaps.

The directional read from the in-window evidence — tech-led futures weakness, a 3%+ oil spike, firm dollar, soft gold, flat bitcoin — is self-consistent with a Hormuz/oil-supply and rates story rather than a broad risk-off bid. Bitcoin at 77,598 (+1.00%, mid-range) does not confirm any strong risk-off impulse. The bond market, not the equity market, is where the stress is concentrated. But this is a premarket posture; it is not a report on how the day closed.

Risks & Open Questions

Claims without independent support

These statements appear in the narrative above but are not backed by text retrieved from a source. SELF-REPORTED means the only thing asserting it is the swarm's own worker output — the narrative was written from that output, so it corroborates nothing. Treat all of these as unverified.

Detailed Findings

Round 0 · Finding 1

US Equity Market Recap — 2026-09-14 (Monday)

⚠️ HEADLINE FINDING: The 2026-09-14 session close is NOT obtainable from the tools available to me. I am reporting that as the primary result rather than filling the gap.

Every market-data call I made returned a last bar of 2026-09-11 (Friday) — there is no 2026-09-14 bar in the feed for any symbol, index, ETF, commodity, or rate. finance_news returned zero results on all three attempts (source error: financialjuice: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests). Consequently I cannot state a closing level or 1-day % change for the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, Dow, or Russell 2000 for 2026-09-14, and I will not substitute Friday's numbers for them.

1. Executive Summary

2. What is genuinely in-window for 2026-09-14

ItemValueDate evidenceSource
US500 (CFD proxy for S&P 500)7,618, −0.52% vs. prior session; −1.65% over past month; +15.15% YoYPage dateModified: 20260914T12:00:00.00Z; "fell to 7618 points on September 14, 2026"https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
Dow premarket tilt (low confidence, internally inconsistent page)Premarket column positive for most Dow-30 names: GS +1.5%, JPM +1.4%, NVDA +1.3%, CAT +1.3%, BA +1.3%, CSCO +1.2%, MMM +1.2%, HD +1.2%, AXP +1.1%, AMZN +1.0%, AMGN +1.0%; negative: CVX −0.7%, CRM −0.2%Page title/og:title "Sep 14, 2026"; premarket tabhttps://stockmarketwatch.com/indices/dowjones/today

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Round 0 · Finding 2

US Equity Market Recap — 2026-09-14 (Monday)

1. Executive Summary

I could not obtain a verified closing level or 1-day percentage change for any major US index for the 2026-09-14 session. Every market-data path I reached either (a) terminated at the 2026-09-11 (prior Friday) daily bar, or (b) carried a 2026-09-14 date stamp but showed premarket/CFD-only values with no evidence of a completed regular session.

The decisive piece of evidence is structural, not editorial: finance_data action=analyze returned daily bars whose last_bar is 2026-09-11 13:30:00 for the S&P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq Composite (IXIC), and the ETF proxies SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM. There is no 2026-09-14 daily bar in the feed at all. Consistent with this, no same-day (2026-09-14) "how the indexes fared" wrap article from any major wire existed in my searches — while the equivalent Friday 9/11/2026 wrap, plus 9/9 and 9/8 wraps, did surface (search-result snippets only; see §7).

Accordingly, this report:

I am deliberately not filling the 2026-09-14 close gap with a plausible-looking number.

2. Headline Finding — Session status is unresolved (Confidence: high that the data is unavailable; low on whether the session had closed)

Confidence: HIGH that no 2026-09-14 close was retrievable from any source I could fetch.

Confidence: LOW on why. My evidence is ambiguous:

EvidenceReadingSource (fetched)
finance_data last_bar = 2026-09-11 13:30:00 for SPX/IXIC/SPY/QQQ/DIA/IWMNo 14 Sep bar in the feedfinance_data action=analyze (tool output)
TradingEconomics JSON-LD "dateModified":"20260914T12:00:00.00Z" = 08:00 ET, before the 09:30 ET openSept-14 value is a premarket printhttps://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
weeklytrader.io banner: "Market Closed — Last updated 4:42 AM UTC" (= 00:42 ET)Pre-sessionhttps://weeklytrader.io/losers.php
strongbuyanalytics page banner: "Updated September 11, 2026 at 04:24 PM ET"Page is a Friday-stamped Monday previewhttps://strongbuyanalytics.com/stock-market-outlook
No wire wrap for "Monday 9/14/2026" found; 9/11, 9/9, 9/8 wraps foundMonday wrap not yet publishedSearch results (§7)

I cannot confirm the 2026-09-14 regular session had closed when I researched. If it had, no mainstream wrap had been published yet. Either way, a same-day close was not available to me.

3. Last Verified Closes — 2026-09-11 (PRIOR SESSION, NOT "today")

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Round 0 · Finding 3

US Equity Market & Macro Recap — Session of Monday 2026-09-14

0. Executive Summary — READ THIS FIRST

The 2026-09-14 US cash session had not yet produced a close when I pulled data, and no source I could reach contains 2026-09-14 index closes, movers, or sector returns. This is not a gap I can paper over, so I am stating it up front rather than filling it with the last available session's numbers.

Three independent pieces of evidence, all from my own pulls:

  1. Every symbol I pulled from finance_data has a last daily bar of 2026-09-11 13:30:00 — including SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM, and SPX/NDX/DJI/RUT. For a 1d interval the timestamp is the session open (13:30 UTC = 9:30 a.m. ET). No partial 2026-09-14 bar exists, which means the market had not opened at pull time.
  2. The FinancialJuice wire in finance_news ends at 2026-09-14T03:51:38Z (≈11:51 p.m. ET on Sunday 2026-09-13) — a live feed that would have carried post-close items had the session finished. (Source: https://www.financialjuice.com/News/9761216/Saudi-civil-defence-danger-has-passed--post-on-X.aspx?xy=rss)
  3. The one page that advertises 2026-09-14 closing data renders its sections empty. https://vittarthi.com/markets/us is titled "US Stock Market Today Sep 14, 2026 — S&P 500, Dow & Nasdaq Close" but the fetched text contains only empty placeholders ("● Key Indices", "● Top Movers", "⚖️ Market breadth", "🏦 Rates, dollar & commodities") with no figures. Its own timestamp reads "Generated: 14 Sep 2026 · 10:00 IST" (= 04:30 UTC / 12:30 a.m. ET, pre-market), and its most recent populated wrap is stamped "13 Sep 2026 · 23:30 IST".

Consequence: the mission's success criteria for index closes, top gainers/losers, and sector returns for 2026-09-14 cannot be met from verifiable sources and I am marking them UNFETCHED rather than estimating. What I can answer rigorously — and what is the focus of this sub-task — is the scheduled and reported macro/Fed/auction calendar, plus the same-day pre-market catalysts.

1. Key Findings

1.1 US macro data releases dated 2026-09-14: NONE — the day was a data desert (confidence: HIGH)

Both economic calendars I fetched show no US macro data release dated Monday, 2026-09-14:

So the heavy US data for this cycle was the prior week, not today:

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Round 0 · Finding 4

US Equity Market Recap — Session of Monday 2026-09-14

1. Executive Summary — headline finding: the 2026-09-14 session is NOT in the data

The 2026-09-14 US trading session could not be recapped, because no 2026-09-14 session data exists in any finance tool I have access to. Every successful finance_data call returned a most-recent bar timestamped 2026-09-11 13:30:00 (i.e. the prior Friday session). finance_insider's newest filing is timestamped 2026-09-11 21:59:18. finance_news's newest headline is timestamped 2026-09-14T03:51:38Z — which is 2026-09-13 23:51 ET, i.e. Sunday night / Monday pre-market — and the feed contains only overnight Asia/Europe/Middle-East items, with no US session items.

Interpretation: as of the data available to me, "today" (2026-09-14) is pre-market Monday, before the US cash open. The last completed session is Friday 2026-09-11.

Per the mission's explicit anti-goal — "Do NOT present 2026-09-11 (prior Friday) or earlier closing data as 'today's' performance" — I am not reporting 2026-09-11 figures as the 2026-09-14 session. I report them below only as an explicitly labelled prior-session baseline, and I flag the 2026-09-14 deliverables as UNFETCHED. I have not filled any gap from memory or estimation.

2. Key Findings

#FindingConfidence
1No 2026-09-14 session bar exists in finance_data; latest bar for every resolvable symbol is 2026-09-11 13:30:00High (0.85)
2finance_news newest item is 2026-09-14T03:51Z (Sun 23:51 ET) — pre-market, no US session coverageHigh (0.85)
3finance_insider newest filing is 2026-09-11 — no 2026-09-14 Form 4 activityHigh (0.85)
4Therefore: 2026-09-14 index closes, % changes, movers, sector moves, and macro releases are all UNFETCHEDHigh (0.85)
5Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC, NDX, QQQ) could not be resolved at all on any exchangeHigh (0.9)
6VIX, 10-yr Treasury yield (^TNX), WTI (CL=F), gold (GC=F), BTC/ETH — all failed to resolveHigh (0.9)
7Two company-specific headlines dated 2026-09-14 exist in the pre-market feed (Amazon/21 Air; EPA coal-gas carbon repeal), but no price reaction is measurableMedium (0.6)
8The indicator panel (RSI-14, MACD, SMA-50/200, VWMA) could not be retrieved for any symbol — the analyze calls returned all-symbol errorsMedium (0.6) — could be transient upstream/rate-limit, not proven absence

3. Detailed Analysis

3.1 Evidence that the 2026-09-14 session is absent

The decisive field is last_bar in finance_data action=quote. Every symbol that resolved returned "last_bar": "2026-09-11 13:30:00" and "bars": 250, with first_bar 2025-09-15 13:30:00:

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Round 0 · Finding 5

US Equity Market Recap — Monday, 2026-09-14

⚠️ HEADLINE DATA-AVAILABILITY FINDING (read first)

The 2026-09-14 closing session is NOT available from the mandated finance tools. Every symbol I pulled from finance_data returns a final daily bar timestamped 2026-09-11 13:30:00 UTC — i.e. the prior Friday session. There is no 2026-09-14 bar for any equity, index or ETF in the feed.

^GSPC, ^IXIC, ^DJI, ^RUT, ^VIX  →  "no data ... on any exchange"
SPX, NDX, RUT, VIX              →  "no data ... on any exchange"
SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM, VIX, DJI    →  last_bar = 2026-09-11 13:30:00
finance_data action=quote source=pyth → HTTP 401 Unauthorized (all symbols)

Consequently, per the mission's non-negotiable constraints, no 2026-09-14 index close, % change, or mover % move is reported below as fact — the mission's success criteria for the 9/14 close are UNMET, and I flag each unmet item explicitly rather than filling it from memory or from Friday's tape. The anti-goal prohibiting presentation of 2026-09-11 data as "today's" performance applies directly to the only equity data the tools would give me.

1. Executive Summary

2. Key Findings (with confidence)

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Round 0 · Finding 6

Cross-Asset Backdrop, 2026-09-14 — Findings

Executive summary (read this first)

The single most important finding is a data-availability finding: the 2026-09-14 US cash equity session is not present in any of the mandated data sources. It appears not to have closed yet at the time of the snapshot.

Every US-listed equity/ETF series I pulled (SPY, DIA, IWM, NDX, SPXL, VXX, TLT, IEF, SHY, UUP, GLD) ends its daily history at 2026-09-11 13:30 UTC — Friday's bar — and 15-minute SPY bars end at 2026-09-11 19:45 UTC (finance_data action=analyze / action=quote / action=history, retrieved 2026-09-14). The 24-hour markets (DXY, XAUUSD, US10Y, BTCUSD) do have bars for the session that opened 2026-09-13 21:00–23:00 UTC — i.e. the 2026-09-14 futures/FX day had opened but had not closed. The most recent headline in the finance_news feed is timestamped 2026-09-14T03:51:38Z (= 23:51 ET on 2026-09-13), i.e. before the US open.

Conclusion: a "2026-09-14 close" cannot be sourced, because at snapshot time the US cash session had not traded. I am therefore reporting (a) the last completed session, Friday 2026-09-11, clearly labelled as prior-session, and (b) the in-progress 2026-09-14 session levels for the 24-hour markets. I am explicitly not presenting 2026-09-11 data as today's performance.

1. Cross-asset backdrop — the specific task

These are the latest available bars for each 24-hour instrument. All four carry a bar stamped 2026-09-13 21:00–23:00 UTC, which is the opening bar of the 2026-09-14 trading day (Sunday 5:00 PM ET). These are session-in-progress levels, NOT closes. (Source: finance_data action=analyze, retrieved 2026-09-14.)

Instrument (tool symbol)Level1d %5d %20d %RSI-14TrendBar date
US 10-yr yield (US10Y, TVC)4.971+0.04%+3.909%+5.946%73.20strong_uptrend2026-09-13 23:00 UTC (in-progress 2026-09-14 bar)
US Dollar Index (DXY, ICEUS)99.341+0.248%+0.444%−0.241%49.17downtrend2026-09-13 21:00 UTC (in-progress 2026-09-14 bar)
Gold spot (XAUUSD, OANDA)4,324.495−0.573%−1.851%−2.087%46.00uptrend2026-09-13 21:00 UTC (in-progress 2026-09-14 bar)
Bitcoin (BTCUSD, OKX)77,598.0+1.001%−0.900%−1.160%n/an/a2026-09-14 00:00 UTC (in-progress 2026-09-14 bar)

What each leg says, mechanically

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Investigation Trail

Round 0

Sources

Trace Index

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