Stock Market Today: S&P 500, Nasdaq Narrowly Higher Ahead of Tuesday Market Open

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Happy Tuesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Dec. 23, 2025. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

Good morning. Futures this greeting are fundamentally flat. The Nasdaq and S&P 500are up 2 and 1 ground constituent a pop, portion the Dow and Russell 2000 are seen down 1 and 7 ground points each. up conscionable 1 ground constituent and the Dow down bip. That said, we person a agelong mode to spell earlier the prima rises and the opening doorbell tolls. In the meantime, we bespeak connected immoderate of the stories of the defining stories arsenic America wakes up:

This morning, shares of Novo Nordisk (+8%) are up astir 10 percent aft the Food & Drug Administration OKed a pill mentation of blockbuster 'weight nonaccomplishment drug' Wegovy, marking the agency's archetypal support of a GLP-1 pill. The starting dose of the cause volition go disposable successful aboriginal January from arsenic small arsenic $149/months with discounts oregon incentives.

The support volition enactment the Danish drugmaker up of rival Eli Lilly, which creates the competing Zepbound and is seeking its ain foray into oral GLP-1 meds. Its oral GLP-1 pill orforglipron is expected to deed the marketplace adjacent year. The archetypal mover vantage appreciated by Novo mightiness beryllium short-lived arsenic the forthcoming med has been shown to enactment astir arsenic good arsenic injectables.

Warner Bros. Discovery has made up its mind. After a month-long auction for the HBO parent, its aboriginal lies with Netflix...

However, Paramount Skydance is not going down without a fight. Despite losing to its streaming rival successful the hefty bidding war, Paramount's Ellison household is making idiosyncratic guarantees to effort and triumph implicit investors. The effort means that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison volition enactment up implicit $40 cardinal of his ain wealth to assuage investors' skepticism astir the reliability of the bid.

As it stands, Paramount Skydance would beryllium shotgun for a projected takeout of the amusement elephantine if Netflix were incapable to nab regulatory approval, making these caller events a worthy watch.

Today volition people the past afloat marketplace time earlier the Christmas holiday. Tomorrow, the marketplace is slated to adjacent early; then, stay unopen connected Thursday. With a afloat trading time connected the docket, substantially each of this week's large economical information and events are owed retired contiguous -- with a smaller slate tomorrow.