Amazon.com increased 1.98 percent and the consumer discretionary index gained 0.93 percent higher after a report showed that the consumer confidence index for September rose to its highest level in nine years. Following the first of three presidential debates on Monday, Trump vowed to hit Clinton harder after she put him on the defensive. “From a market perspective, rightly or wrongly, there is an understanding that Mrs Clinton would be a safe pair of hands, that there's very little uncertainty there,” said Brad McMillan chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Wall Street rises in wake of first presidential face-off