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Stock futures traded adjacent the flatline Tuesday nighttime aft the wide marketplace S&P 500 notched a grounds close.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average mislaid 24 points, oregon 0.05%. S&P 500 futures slipped astir 0.05%, portion Nasdaq 100 futures were small changed.
Major U.S. indexes climbed for a 4th consecutive league connected Tuesday, led by tech names including Google genitor Alphabet, Nvidia, Broadcom and Amazon.
The S&P 500 ended the regular league up astir 0.5% and posted a caller grounds adjacent of 6,909.79. The scale is conscionable beneath its intraday all-time precocious of 6,920.34. The Nasdaq Composite gained astir 0.6%, and the 30-stock Dow added astir 79 points, oregon astir 0.2%, to decorativeness the day.
Earlier Tuesday, the Commerce Department issued its a third-quarter speechmaking of the U.S. gross home product that came successful astatine 4.3%, surpassing the Dow Jones statement estimation of 3.2%.The report, which had been delayed by the authorities shutdown, initially led traders to little their expectations of involvement complaint cuts adjacent year. However, fed funds futures trading inactive indicates 2 complaint cuts by the extremity of 2026, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
Investors proceed to anticipation for the coveted Santa Claus rally, referring to a year-end banal marketplace rally that occurs betwixt the past 5 trading days of the twelvemonth and the archetypal 2 of the caller twelvemonth — successful this lawsuit from the opening doorbell on Dec. 24 until Jan. 5.
According to LPL Financial main method strategist Adam Turnquist, the S&P 500 has averaged a 1.3% instrumentality during the Santa Claus rally period, with affirmative results occurring 78% of the time. The market's emblematic seven-day mean instrumentality is conscionable 0.3% with a positivity complaint of 58%, meanwhile, helium wrote successful a enactment to clients.
"Momentum heading into year-end suggests a favorable setup for a affirmative Santa Claus Rally — a historically bullish awesome for January and the twelvemonth ahead," Turnquist said. "While wide marketplace breadth remains somewhat constrictive for an scale adjacent grounds highs, the inclination is moving successful the close direction, supported by a rotation toward cyclical sectors. A adjacent supra the S&P 500's December precocious could pave the mode for the adjacent limb higher supra the 7,000-point milestone."
On the economical beforehand Wednesday morning, traders volition support an oculus retired for play jobless claims.
The New York Stock Exchange volition adjacent aboriginal connected Wednesday astatine 1 p.m. ET connected Christmas Eve and volition beryllium closed Thursday for Christmas Day.
Alphabet-backed bundle institution Motive files for IPO
Alphabet-backed fleet absorption bundle institution Motive connected Tuesday filed for an archetypal nationalist offering connected the New York Stock Exchange nether the awesome "MTVE."
The determination puts Motive, which antecedently operated nether the sanction Keep Truckin, among a fast-growing radical of tech companies looking to spell nationalist successful 2026. Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX person each reportedly considered making their shares wide disposable for trading adjacent year.
Motive is smaller, reporting a $62.7 cardinal nett nonaccomplishment connected $115.8 cardinal successful gross successful the 3rd quarter. The nonaccomplishment widened from $41.3 cardinal successful the aforesaid 4th of 2024, portion gross grew astir 23% twelvemonth implicit year. The institution is backed by Alphabet's GV, Base10 Partners, Greenoaks, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Scale Venture Partners. More here.
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