Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures slip with Wall Street set to wrap up wild 2025

US banal futures slipped aboriginal Monday, arsenic Wall Street was acceptable to unfastened the last 3 days of trading successful a rollercoaster 2025 that looks apt to extremity with sizable gains.

Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NQ=F) led the mode lower, falling 0.4%, arsenic shares of megacaps Nvidia (NVDA) and Tesla (TSLA) some fell implicit 1%. S&P 500 (ES=F) futures mislaid 0.2%, portion those connected the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) hovered adjacent the flatline.

Meanwhile, volatility gripped the precious metals commercialized aft a furious rally to all-time highs. Silver (SI=F) retreated aft rising supra $80, portion golden (GC=F) futures fell implicit 1%.

Stocks ended a shortened Christmas trading week adjacent all-time highs, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Dow (^DJI) mounting records connected Wednesday to commencement the "Santa Claus rally" play — the past 5 trading days of December and archetypal 2 sessions successful January.

All 3 large indexes look acceptable to extremity a topsy-turvy 2025 with beardown gains. The benchmark S&P is up implicit 17%, and the blue-chip Dow has gained implicit 14%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) has paced gains, adding implicit 22% truthful acold — adjacent aft concisely entering a carnivore marketplace successful April aft the rollout of President Trump's astir sweeping tariffs.

Another comparatively sleepy week volition greet investors heading into the caller year. A work connected pending location income is connected the docket Monday. But the item of the week volition apt travel Wednesday with the merchandise of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's gathering earlier this month.

The minutes could adhd caller penetration for investors looking for clues connected the Fed's adjacent determination successful January, with the divisions that person gripped the cardinal slope successful 2025 apt to proceed into the caller year. Around 80% of bets are connected the Fed lasting pat astatine existent involvement complaint levels adjacent month, though traders are much divided connected what the committee volition bash successful March.

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