Updated Mon, December 22, 2025 astatine 4:09 AM CST 1 min read
The Nasdaq led US banal futures higher connected Monday, arsenic Wall Street entered a holiday-shortened week calculating the chances of a "Santa Claus rally" to extremity the year.
Contracts connected the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) adding 0.5%, and those connected the S&P 500 (ES=F) enactment connected 0.3%. Meanwhile, Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) held conscionable supra the flatline, with the large US gauges eyeing a 3rd consecutive time of gains.
Behind the upbeat temper is simply a betterment successful tech stocks, aft a bumpy streak arsenic investors fretted astir precocious valuations and indebtedness linked to AI plans. But religion successful the AI commercialized surged again, acknowledgment to affirmative quality for Oracle (ORCL) and Nvidia (NVDA).
Investors are present debating whether AI names tin clasp onto that momentum, arsenic they gauge the prospects for a Santa Claus rally successful the remaining 7 sessions of the year. Stocks are entering the last agelong wrong 3% of their grounds highs, arsenic a astonishment driblet successful ostentation and lukewarm labour marketplace information support optimism for gains alive.
US banal markets volition adjacent aboriginal connected Wednesday arsenic traders caput retired for the holidays, and volition beryllium shuttered each of Thursday for Christmas Day.
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Stock marketplace sum for Monday, December 22, 2025.

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