Stock Market Today: Nasdaq Leaps 2% After Nvidia's Strong Earnings

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Happy Thursday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Nov. 20, 2025. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

The U.S. markets are present open. Out of the gate, the Nasdaq (+2.2%) is up implicit 2%, portion the S&P 500 (+1.61%) and Dow (+1.31%) are up implicit 1%. The Russell 2000 (-0.04%) is astir flat.

Stocks are jumping aft Nvidia reported beardown net yesterday aft the marketplace close. Here's the Nasdaq this greeting for immoderate discourse connected however that's going:

We'll beryllium backmost for much updates arsenic the marketplace gets connected its feet for the morning, which volition beryllium added here.

The marketplace opens successful little than an hour, but we've already got a fewer firms making moves this morning. Here are the premarket movers, per MarketWatch:

One of the biggest stories this greeting is Exact Sciences, which announced that it would merchantability to Abbott for implicit $21 billion; the biggest wellness attraction woody of 2025.

On the different extremity of the marketplace is Bath & Body Works, which is plummeting aft it slashed its forecast amid anemic request for location products. It was past down implicit 17%.

The long-overdue September payrolls are out, showing that the U.S. system added implicit 119,000 (vs. 50,000 expected.) That sufficiently offset the 33,000 payrolls subtracted from revisions successful the erstwhile 2 months. Meanwhile, the unemployment complaint ticked up to 4.4% (from 4.3%).

Good morning. Some mightiness adjacent telephone it a large morning. U.S. banal futures are soaring into the greeting commercialized aft Nvidia knocked its Wednesday P.M. net retired of the park.

The institution reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.30 connected $57.01 cardinal successful revenue, increasing 62% and 67% respectively year-over-year. In tandem with the study came much optimistic guidance for the coming quarter, prompting upgrades crossed Wall Street. It's up much than 4% successful the premarket this morning.

You tin number that successful the wins class for traders, particularly amid concerns astir the AI bubble popping. Earlier this week, we covered the confluence of factors which mightiness measurement (or benefit) markets up to the December Fed gathering -- and clearing the net hurdle could beryllium 1 of the champion outcomes that investors could person gotten. However, the marketplace volition request to support that momentum this greeting arsenic we juggle a small spot of aged news.