{"id":116766,"date":"2026-04-15T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=116766"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:14:43","slug":"us-stock-market-today-april-15-nasdaq-jumps-1-96-and-sp-500-gains-1-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/us-stock-market-today-april-15-nasdaq-jumps-1-96-and-sp-500-gains-1-18\/116766\/","title":{"rendered":"US stock market today, April 15: Nasdaq jumps 1.96% and S&P 500 gains 1.18%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"250\">The US stock market is showing strong momentum. All major indices closed higher. Tech stocks are leading the rally. Volatility is falling at the same time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"413\">The Dow Jones is at 48,535.99. It gained 317.74 points in a single session. This is a rise of 0.66 percent. The index touched a high of 48,592.29 during the day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"415\" data-end=\"592\">The S&P 500 is trading at 6,967.38. It moved up by 81.14 points. This is a strong gain of 1.18 percent. The index stayed close to its daily high, showing strong buying interest.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"qcfqyb\" data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"662\">Nasdaq leads rally with 1.96 percent jump on strong tech momentum<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"856\">The Nasdaq is the top performer. It is now at 23,639.08. It jumped 455.35 points. This is a sharp rise of 1.96 percent. The index moved from a low of 23,331.50 to its peak in the same session.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"858\" data-end=\"986\">This shows strong demand in tech stocks. Investors are clearly favoring growth sectors. The rally looks broad based within tech.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"988\" data-end=\"1181\">The Small Cap 2000 index is also up. It is trading at 2,705.67. It gained 35.18 points. This marks a 1.32 percent increase. This suggests that smaller companies are also seeing buying interest.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"6zhtms\" data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1240\">VIX drops 2.78 percent as market fear declines sharply<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1361\">The VIX index is now at 17.85. It dropped 0.51 points. This is a decline of 2.78 percent. The VIX measures market fear.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1492\">A falling VIX usually signals confidence. Investors are less worried about volatility right now. This supports the ongoing rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US stock market is showing strong momentum. All major indices closed higher. Tech stocks are leading the rally. Volatility\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":116767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-markets"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116768,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766\/revisions\/116768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}