Prior closes lower
Wednesday GDP, PCE, and NVIDIA
A public-information market brief using prior closes and daily-published observations available by the research cutoff.
Prior-close market snapshot
The latest completed U.S. equity session was Monday, August 24, because the August 25 regular session was open at the research cutoff.
The S&P 500 closed at 7,652.86 on August 24, 2026, down 0.3% for the session. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 25,980.19, down 0.8%, and the Russell 2000 closed at 2,995.08, down 0.8%.
Brent crude settled at $92.60 per barrel on August 24, 2026, down 0.84% from the August 23 observation. The U.S. Dollar Index settled at 98.929 on August 24, 2026, up 0.15% from August 23.
Rates and credit
Daily-published funding and spread data trail the live session by their stated publication schedules.
The 2-year Treasury yield was 4.22% and the 10-year Treasury yield was 4.71% on the August 24, 2026 daily-published Treasury curve. SOFR was 3.63% on its August 20, 2026 underlying observation, published August 21.
These are daily-published series and are not intraday values.
Calendar and earnings
This week’s scheduled releases include GDP, personal-income-and-outlays data, Treasury note auctions, and NVIDIA Corporation results.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis is scheduled to publish the second estimate of second-quarter 2026 GDP and July 2026 personal income and outlays at 7:30 AM CT on Wednesday, August 26. The Federal Reserve calendar lists Chairman Kevin Warsh for a 9:00 AM CT Jackson Hole keynote on Friday, August 28.
NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is scheduled to report fiscal second-quarter FY27 results on Wednesday, August 26. Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), Target Corporation (TGT), Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW), and The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX) released results on August 19, 2026.
Private credit
The source screen completed by the August 25 cutoff did not identify a confirmed item that met this section's transaction-date and status criteria.
Prior closes: equities and Brent crude declined.
Calendar: Treasury auctions today; BEA releases Wednesday.
U.S. equity indexes closed lower on August 24, 2026, while Brent crude also declined. NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is scheduled to report on August 26, 2026, alongside the Bureau of Economic Analysis releases on July personal income, outlays, and second-quarter GDP.
Sources: AP: August 24 U.S. index closes, U.S. Treasury daily yield-curve data, 2026, FRED: Secured Overnight Financing Rate, Investing.com: Brent crude historical data, Investing.com: U.S. Dollar Index historical data, PrimerIQ: August 24 U.S. closing wrap, Treasury: tentative auction schedule, Federal Reserve: August 2026 calendar, BEA: release schedule, BLS: August 2026 release schedule, NVIDIA fiscal Q2 FY27 event, Target second-quarter 2026 earnings release, Lowe's second-quarter 2026 earnings release, TJX fiscal Q2 2027 earnings release, Analog Devices fiscal Q3 2026 earnings release, Reuters August 25 oil report, Reuters August 25 gold report, Cboe VIX August 24 close, FRED VIX daily series.
Primary releases, official data series, and dated issuer releases were used where available; market reporting was used to cross-check prior-close market observations. Brent, gold, and VIX use the direct Reuters, Cboe, and FRED observations listed above. Private credit is empty because no screened item cleared the explicit event-date and status test.