Stock futures are little changed as traders await payrolls report: Live updates

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Traders enactment connected the level of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) astatine the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) successful New York, US, connected Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.

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Stock futures traded adjacent the flatline Monday nighttime arsenic traders anticipated the merchandise of November's jobs report.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 11 points, oregon 0.02%. S&P 500 futures inched up 0.05%, portion Nasdaq 100 futures precocious astir 0.1%.

The 3 benchmark U.S. indexes closed Monday successful the red, pressured by losses successful cardinal artificial quality names.

In regular trading, Broadcom mislaid 5.6%, portion bundle institution ServiceNow sank 11.5% and Oracle fell 2.7%. Microsoft shares besides ended the league little arsenic investors continued to instrumentality profits from high-flying AI trades and determination into different areas of the market, including wellness attraction and utilities. The U.S. banal marketplace is inactive heading for a winning twelvemonth with gains crossed each of the eleven S&P 500 sectors.

"I deliberation for the adjacent four, five, six months, determination is immoderate runway present erstwhile you look astatine the existent system corners of the market," Chris Verrone, caput of method and macro probe astatine Strategas, said Monday connected CNBC's "Closing Bell."

"The groups that I deliberation are starting to inflect present person shown america that," helium added. "Where person we seen the caller precocious expansion? Industrials, financials, discretionary, materials. There's a precise existent system consciousness to this."

November's jobs report, which volition beryllium retired Tuesday morning, could beryllium a catalyst for stocks. Economists polled by Dow Jones foretell that nonfarm payrolls grew by 50,000, down sharply from the 119,000 jobs added in September. They besides spot the unemployment complaint coming successful astatine 4.5%, compared to the complaint of 4.4% successful September. October's retail income study is besides due.

The November user terms scale volition beryllium released connected Thursday.

Ford volition grounds $19.5 cardinal successful peculiar charges tied to EV pullback

Ford Motor said connected Monday that it expects to grounds astir $19.5 cardinal successful peculiar items related to a restructuring of its concern priorities and a pullback successful its all-electric conveyance investments.

The Detroit automaker said astir of those charges volition hap during the 4th quarter. That volition beryllium followed by $5.5 cardinal successful currency to beryllium charged done 2027, and the the bulk of that chunk volition beryllium paid adjacent year, Ford said.

The charges volition interaction the automaker's nett results but not its adjusted earnings. The automaker said Monday it was expanding its guidance of adjusted net earlier involvement and taxes to astir $7 cardinal successful 2025. That's successful enactment with a target from earlier this year, earlier the company lowered expectations to betwixt $6 cardinal and $6.5 cardinal successful adjusted EBIT successful October.

The charges announced Monday are connected to large changes to Ford's concern plans.

The caller plans see refocusing investments connected hybrid vehicles, including plug-in models alternatively than axenic EVs; canceling a next procreation of ample all-electric trucks in speech for smaller, much affordable EVs; and a rebalancing of its investments successful halfway products specified arsenic trucks and SUVs. More here.

— Michael Wayland

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