The S&P 500 reached a fresh record closing high on Thursday as the rest of the market ended mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipping over 0.02% while the Nasdaq climbed over 94 points higher.

The S&P 500 was boosted by Tesla (TSLA  ) shares throughout the session, with the electric vehicle stock jumping 3.2% after its strong earnings report. The benchmark is now up 1.75% for the week and 5.62% on the month.

Here's how the market settled on Thursday:

S&P 500 Index (SPY  ): +0.30% or +13.59 points to 4,549.78

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA  ): -0.02% or -6.26 points to 35,603.08

Nasdaq Composite Index (QQQ  ): +0.62% or +94.02 points to 15,215.70

Existing homes rebound from August's drop last month:

Existing home sales in the United States rebounded in September after dipping in August, rising by the most in a year as housing demand remains high.

Sales of previously owned homes increased by 7% in September month-over-month, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) latest report published Thursday, bringing sales to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.29 million units. In August, existing home sales dropped by 2% in their first decline since May.

"Some improvement in supply during prior months helped nudge up sales in September," Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist, said in a press statement. "Housing demand remains strong as buyers likely want to secure a home before mortgage rates increase even further next year."

WeWork publicly debuts via SPAC merger:

Infamous co-working company WeWork (WE  ) opened for trading at $11.28 per share after making its public debut via a merger with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) BowX Acquisition Corp.

The listing comes nearly two years after the company's failed attempt to go public via a traditional initial public offering and the ousting of its co-founder and former CEO Adam Neumann. The SPAC merger gives the company a valuation of about $9 billion, versus its previous pre-IPO valuation of as much as $47 billion following an investment by SoftBank (SFTBY  ).

Weekly jobless claims continue their decline:

Initial jobless claims continued to improve last week, sinking to their lowest level since March 2020 amid widespread labor shortages.

Weekly unemployment claims totaled 290,000 during the week ended Oct. 16, according to the Labor Department's latest report published Thursday. However, the previous week's jobless claims were upwardly revised to 296,000.

Continuing jobless claims for the week ended Oct. 9 also came in at their lowest level since the pandemic began, unexpectedly falling below 2.5 million, totaling 2.481 million.

Here's how market benchmarks started trading soon after market open:

S&P 500 Index: -0.09% or -3.92 points to 4,532.27

Dow Jones Industrial Average: -0.12% or -42.63 points to 35,566.71

Nasdaq Composite Index: -0.04% or -6.73 points to 15,114.95