Stock futures are little changed as traders get ready for the final month of the year: Live updates

Stock futures were small changed connected Sunday nighttime pursuing a winning week, arsenic traders get acceptable to wrapper up a beardown 2025.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 18 points. Futures tied to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 hovered astir the flatline.

Monday marks the archetypal time of December, and investors person immoderate momentum astatine their backs. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite past week ripped higher by 3.7% and 4.9%, respectively, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average precocious 3.2%.

Seasonality is besides connected Wall Street's side. The S&P 500 averages an beforehand of much than 1% successful December, making it the third-best period of the twelvemonth for the benchmark successful records going backmost to 1950, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.

But the marketplace turned turbulent and was thing but creaseless sailing successful November. The S&P 500 and Dow closed level for the month, portion the Nasdaq shed 1.5% to drawback a seven-month advance. At 1 constituent successful November, the Nasdaq was down astir 8% from the October close. Concerns astir artificial quality banal valuations enactment unit connected the large averages during the month.

"I americium a spot much constructive connected the prospects for a affirmative December, fixed the crisp rally [last] week, which has helped marketplace breadth to statesman to rebound aft a hard aboriginal portion of November," Mark Newton, method strategist astatine Fundstrat, wrote past week. "The equity marketplace seems to beryllium increasing much comfy arsenic the chances for a December complaint chopped person grown."