US close: Dow Jones reclaims Friday's losses

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Wall Street stocks closed higher on Monday as major indices tried to right the ship after a brutal first week of September trading.

At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.20% at 40,829.59, while the S&P 500 advanced 1.16% to 5,471.05 and the Nasdaq Composite saw out the session 1.16% firmer at 16,884.60.

The Dow closed 484.18 points higher on Monday, erasing losses recorded in the previous session as market participants digested July's all-important nonfarm jobs report, which revealed nonfarm payrolls grew by just 142,000, missing the 161,000 gain expected by economists.

As far as the new week was concerned, investors will look ahead to two key inflation reports that could further influence the Federal Reserve's thinking ahead of its open market committee meeting later in the month, with August consumer and producer price reports slated for release on Wednesday and Thursday morning, respectively.

On the macro front for Monday, US wholesale inventories rose 0.2% month-on-month to $903.5bn in July, according to the Census Bureau, slightly below preliminary estimates for a 0.3% increase and following June's flat reading. Non-durable stocks gained 0.5%, while durable goods grew 0.1%. Year-on-year, wholesale inventories grew by 0.4%, down from the advance estimate of 0.6%.

Elsewhere, total consumer credit surged $25.45bn in July, according to the Federal Reserve, significantly higher than the $12.5bn increase expected by economists and well above the $5.23bn increase recorded a month earlier for the largest credit growth since November 2022.

In the corporate space, shares in software giant Oracle surged following the publication of its first-quarter earnings.

Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com

Dow Jones - Risers

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American Express Co. (AXP) $250.71 2.81%
Visa Inc. (V) $285.61 2.23%
JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) $216.81 2.05%
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Amgen Inc. (AMGN) $325.92 1.67%
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