Stock Market Today: Wall Street Rises to Its Best Level Since Start of August

A trader looks over his cell phone outside the New York Stock Exchange in the financial district of Manhattan in New York on Sept. 14, 2022. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo

NEW YORK—Wall Street rose again Monday to begin a holiday-shortened week and reached its best level in more than three months.

The S&P 500 gained 33.36 points, or 0.7 percent, to 4,547.38, coming off its third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 203.76, or 0.6 percent, to 33,151.04, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 159.05, or 1.1 percent, to 14,284.53.