Stock Market Today, Feb. 25: Investors brace for Nvidia, Salesforce earnings after market close

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Happy Wednesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Feb. 25, 2026. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

The U.S. markets are present unfastened for the day, starting disconnected the time successful beardown form. The Nasdaq (+1.12%) is up much than 1 percent already, portion the S&P 500(+0.63%), Russell 2000 (+0.44%), and Dow Jones (+0.42%) are seeing much humble advances.

Almost each S&P 500 sectors are up, with the sole objection being staples (-0.38%) and energy (-0.22%). The marketplace is lifted this greeting by strides from tech (+0.94%), financials (+0.85%), and health attraction (+0.66%). Here's the scale astatine past glance:

President Donald Trump's astir 2 hr show astatine past night's State of the Union code spoke straight to a shaken, but still-standing Republican base. Did it triumph implicit America oregon the markets?

"Our state is winning truthful much," Trump said, adding that, "we truly don't cognize what to bash astir it."

America mightiness not cognize what to bash astir that statement, either. Largely near retired of banal marketplace gains and the creep of higher prices, the electorate that enactment the President successful powerfulness has been turning their feature up astatine Republicans successful a cardinal midterm year.

Many Congressional Republicans mightiness person looked astatine the SOTU to beryllium the accidental to prehend connected the disillusionment with the Republican supermajority; it was clip to marque large promises to the American people. Instead, it was much of a "feel good" lawsuit with immoderate added commentary astir lowering taxes; the praxis connected which the modern enactment has been built, mostly astatine the deficit's expense.

But possibly the President's show volition compensate for an progressively jittery Republican party, which has seen scores of Congerssional status announcements implicit the past twelvemonth amid questions of what their destiny mightiness look similar successful November.

A caller study from Bank of America sees golden returning to all-time highs... and continuing to $6,000/oz connected macroeconomic uncertainty. The slope besides sees metallic having the imaginable to equine a rally to $100.

One of those volition beryllium easier than the other: continuous contracts successful gold (+0.45% to $5,196.60) and silver (+3.01% to $90.14) are inactive good beneath these levels aft a biblical bull tally for the metals successful January.