S&P 500, Nasdaq Jump On Chipmaker Strength As Investors Eye October Fed Decision — ORCL, HOOD, JBLU, RIVN, SMCI In Focus

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 rose as semiconductor stocks led gains, with the headline also flagging single-name attention on Oracle, Robinhood, JetBlue, Rivian, and Super Micro Computer. Chipmaker strength transmits to the broader indexes through their heavy weighting in the Nasdaq 100 and the AI-infrastructure theme that links semiconductor demand to data-center spending and related software and hardware vendors. Equity risk appetite is being shaped by positioning ahead of the October Federal Reserve decision, where the expected path of policy rates feeds directly into the discount rate applied to long-duration growth stocks, a sensitivity that makes the Nasdaq more rate-sensitive than the broader S&P 500. Oracle, with its exposure to cloud infrastructure buildout, is the most directly tied to the AI capital-spending narrative among the named stocks, while the U.S. dollar is exposed through rate-differential expectations versus other major central banks. The next concrete catalyst for traders is the U.S. consumer price index release, whose inflation read will shape how aggressively markets price the Fed's

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