Stock Market Today: Futures Decline As 2025 Struggles to Finish Year on High Note

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Happy Tuesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Dec. 30, 2025. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

Good morning. The dawn rises connected the 2nd to past trading time of 2025. This twelvemonth has had its ups and downs, but this storied twelvemonth volition soon beryllium past --- and we aren't conscionable saying that.

Barring immoderate meltdown of biblical proportions, the U.S. markets volition person notched a 3rd consecutive twelvemonth of double-digit returns crossed the large indexes. And it mightiness not beryllium over, either. Our precise ain Charley Blaine digested immoderate of the 'big numbers' of 2025 and polled implicit 20 starring fiscal analysts connected their takes for 2026.

The expert mean sees different 'historic' twelvemonth successful the makings, adjacent though it hasn't begun. If different double-digit twelvemonth of returns were to happen, it would beryllium the archetypal clip that had happened since the play spanning 2003 to 2007 (famous for evident reasons).

That level of bullishness mightiness beryllium a flashing reddish motion for immoderate marketplace hawks, particularly as catalysts similar Fed cuts, AI optimism, and net maturation tally into immoderate headwinds. Mix successful the still-tepid user backdrop and a steadfast spot of the 'great unknown' and you tin spot wherefore the caller rally could look its match. But for what it's worth, nary of those concerns panned retired successful 2025 --- truthful possibly the analysts mightiness beryllium 'manifesting' for much of what the past six months had successful store.

We'll yet person to transverse that span and ringing successful the New Year erstwhile we get there, but we'll instrumentality what we person close successful beforehand of america for the meantime. Down a fewer ground points successful futures trading this morning, the large indexes could beryllium looking astatine different time of declines. Stocks person backslid a spot from all-time highs since the Christmas Day vacation arsenic the caller 'tech rebound' has struggled. 65.8% of stocks, oregon astir 3,645 issues, declined connected Monday.

(And contempt earlier misconceptions (yes, my bad, my apologies to those who caught this one), the marketplace volition beryllium unfastened for 2 much afloat days -- nary fractional time connected the 31st. That leaves america with a coagulated 13 much hours of trading, truthful fastener successful those gains and nonaccomplishment harvesting.)

Speaking of which, here's a abbreviated spot connected what's coming up today:

Today volition spot a humble slate of economical information points, including the FOMC Minutes (2:00 p.m. ET) and Chicago PMI (9:45 a.m. ET), among others. Here's what is connected platform successful econ land: