The Dow rose 81.82 points, or 0.18%, to 46,397.89. The S&P 500 gained 27.25 points, or 0.41%, to 6,688.46 and the Nasdaq gained 68.86 points, or 0.31%, to 22,660.01.
NEW YORK: Wall Street's three major indices managed to close Tuesday's choppy session higher, marking quarterly and monthly gains, even as investors braced for a US government shutdown, which would delay key economic reports and muddy the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy outlook.
With investors having bet for some time on a spate of further Fed rate cuts, the benchmark S&P 500, the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the Dow all gained for the second quarter in a row. For the S&P 500 and the Dow, it also marked their fifth straight monthly gain while the Nasdaq registered its sixth straight monthly gain.
