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Happy Wednesday. This is TheStreet stock market today for December 17, 2025. You can follow the latest market updates here on our daily live blog.
US markets are now open. He Russel 2000 (+0.57%) has already reversed yesterday’s -0.45% drop; Now it’s just a matter of holding on to those day’s profits.
In large capital letters, the Dow (+0.36%) is also having a good start to the day. He S&P 500(+0.12%) and Nasdaq (+0.09%), on the other hand, rose only a few basis points at the market open. For the former, a gain today would end a three-day streak for the index.
He 10 years has risen 0.8 bips to 4.157%.
One of the foreboding themes of Tuesday’s trading – aside from regular payrolls – was the big drop in US energy stocks. The S&P energy sector fell 3% as domestic oil prices approached their lowest level in nearly four years. This morning, the US oil benchmark known as WTI crude oilIt is trading at $56, an increase of about 1.5%.
Today, the sector is up about 1%, absorbing some of yesterday’s losses. The financial and materials sectors also join the recovery, with an increase of more than half a percentage point.
Joining in on some of that excitement are Natural gas continuous futures (+2.96% to $4,001) and the international oil benchmark index, Brent Crude (+1.46% to $59.78), which is also seeing a healthy rise in its continuous futures.
But since it’s the holiday season, there may be no more timely exchange than the Silver (+3.75% and $65,675) and Gold (+0.81% to $4,367): They have risen again today, continuing the strong performance of precious metals in recent operations.
We will update this section with more information this morning as it emerges.
Good day. Futures this morning are currently pointing to modest gains in US stocks this morning, which could offset Tuesday’s tepid payrolls market reaction.
Here are all the companies with at least a billion-dollar market cap due to report today, according to Nasdaq:
Today will be a fairly relaxed day compared to yesterday, when delayed October payrolls were released along with November data. Here’s what’s on deck for today:
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