S&P 500 surges to record high on euphoria over Fed rate cut
S&P 500, Dow hit record highs
BofA expects Fed to go for 75-bp cut in Q4
US big banks rise after Fed's rate cut
S&P 500 +1.87%, Nasdaq +2.70%, Dow +1.42%
Updated at 3:13 p.m. ET/1913 GM
By Noel Randewich and Purvi Agarwal
Sept 19 (Reuters) -The S&P 500 surged to intra-day record highs on Thursday, theday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points andindicated more rate cuts were on the horizon.
Heavyweight stocks that have enjoyed much of this year's stock market rally made fresh gains, with Tesla TSLA.O surging 7%, Apple AAPL.O rallying nearly 4% and Meta Platforms META.O climbing over 4%.
AI powerhouse Nvidia NVDA.O rose 4.8%, helping lift the PHLX semiconductor index .SOX almost 5%.
Better-than-expected jobless claims data further stoked global risk appetite.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced therate cut at the high end of expectations, and said it hadgreater confidence inflation was under control. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. economy remainedstrong and the central bank would decide on the appropriate pace of future rate cuts.
"The Fed has sanctioned a pretty strong economic picture here, and so we're just seeing the money flow back into some of the sectors that have perhaps underperformed so far this quarter," said James Ragan, Director of Wealth Management Research at D.A. Davidson.
The small-cap Russell 2000 index .RUT rose 2.4% as lower interest rates boosted prospects of reduced operating costs and greater profits.
The S&P 500 was last up 1.87% at 5,723.44 points. The Nasdaq gained 2.70% to 18,048.05 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.42% at 42,090.90 points.
Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, eight rose, led by information technology .SPLRCT, up 3.32%, followed by a 2.12% gain in communication services .SPLRCL.
BofA Global Research said it now expectsa total of 75 basis pointsin rate cuts by the end of this year, steeper than its previous forecast of50 bps.
Evercore ISI data going back to 1970 showed the S&P 500 has posted an average 14% gain in the six months following the first reduction of a rate-cutting cycle.
September has generally been a disappointing month for U.S. equities with the S&P 500 notching an average loss of 1.2% since 1928.
The S&P 500 banks index .SPXBK rose 2.6%, with gains in Citigroup C.N and Bank of America BAC.N after they lowered their respective prime rates.
Fertility benefits management firm Progyny PGNY.O plunged 33% after a significant client notified the company it had elected to exercise a 90-day option to terminate its services agreement.
Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 .AD.SPX by a 2.8-to-one ratio.
Across the U.S. stock market .AD.US, advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by a 3.9-to-one ratio.
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Reporting by Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru and by Noel Randewich in San Francisco; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Maju Samuel and David Gregorio
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