S&P 500 Investors Adjust To Expectations Of More Rate Hikes

Ironman at Political Calculations 3.49K Followers Follow Summary The trading week ending Friday, 11 September 2026, saw the S&P 500 drop 0.8% below the preceding week's close. The index dropped to 7,656.98, which is 1.8% below its all-time record-high close from 13 August 2026. The week's biggest catalyst driving the outlook for investors was news of inflation, which saw the Consumer Price Index come in at an annualized value of 3.4%, the same as a month earlier. The CME Group's FedWatch Tool now foresees four quarter-point rate hikes in the Federal Reserve's future. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tool's forecast of real GDP growth for the U.S. economy in 2026-Q3 dipped to +4.4, declining from the +4.7% annualized growth it projected a week earlier. Worawith Ounpeng/iStock via Getty Images The trading week ending Friday, 11 September 2026, saw the S&P 500 ( SPX ) drop 0.8% below the preceding week's close. The index dropped to 7,656.98 , which is 1.8% below its all-time record-high close This article was written by Ironman at Political Calculations 3.49K Followers Follow Ironman is the alias of the blogger at Political Calculations, a site that develops, applies and presents both established and cutting edge theory to the topics of investing, business and economics. We should acknowledge that Ironman is either formerly or currently, and quite possibly, simultaneously employed as some kind of engineer, researcher, analyst, rocket scientist, editor and perhaps as a teacher of some kind or another. The scary thing is that's not even close to being a full list of Ironman's professions and we should potentially acknowledge that Ironman may or may not be one person. We'll leave it to our readers to sort out which Ironman might behind any of the posts that do appear here or comments that appear elsewhere on the web!