Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures tick up as Nvidia jumps ahead of Fed meeting kickoff

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Updated Tue, December 9, 2025 astatine 2:14 AM CST 1 min read

US banal futures edged higher connected Tuesday aft President Trump signed disconnected connected allowing Nvidia (NVDA) to resume shipments of flagship AI chips to China, with the commencement of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve meeting.

Contracts connected the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) were small changed, portion S&P 500 futures (ES=F) nudged up 0.1%. Nasdaq 100 futures (NQ=F) were besides up 0.1% aft Wall Street stocks notched humble losses connected Monday.

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Nvidia (NVDA) shares roseate implicit 2% successful premarket trading aft Trump said connected Truth Social that the institution tin merchantability H200 AI chips to “approved customers” successful China and different regions, provided that 25% of the income worth is paid to the US government.

Trump added that Chinese President Xi Jinping “responded positively” to the statement successful a determination that adds immoderate information to Nvidia's China concern aft months of trade-policy uncertainty.

Meanwhile, the spotlight turns to the Fed’s last argumentation determination of the year, acceptable for Wednesday. Traders overwhelmingly expect a quarter-point interest-rate cut, matching moves successful September and October. Markets are pricing successful an 89% accidental of that December easing, per the CME FedWatch tool. But prospects for further lowering of borrowing costs successful 2026 are little certain.

On platform are firm net from Oracle (ORCL), Broadcom (AVGO), Costco (COST), and Lululemon (LULU), with megacap AI and retail trends successful focus.

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Natural state loses much than 7% to autumn backmost beneath $5, lipid sheds 2%

Natural state (NG=F) prices spent Monday successful escaped fall, tumbling by much than 7.9% to driblet backmost beneath the $5 mark.

After a acold daze past week that saw prices leap supra $5, a people not seen since December 2022, caller predictions from meteorologists for a warmer-than-expected wintertime person pushed earthy state successful the different absorption successful the steepest autumn for the vigor merchandise since the extremity of June.

At the aforesaid time, monthly accumulation successful the US' little 48 states is astatine a grounds of 109.7 cardinal cubic feet per time (bcf/d) successful December, according to information from LSEG, up the erstwhile precocious of 109.6 bcf/d acceptable successful November, adding to earthy state proviso and depressing prices.

Moderating the terms fall, mean flows of state to liquified earthy state (LNG) plants successful the US besides deed a caller monthly precocious successful December astatine 18.9 bcf/d, up from a erstwhile precocious of 18.2 bcf/d acceptable successful November. When state is sent to LNG plants, it decreases the amounts disposable for retention and wintertime heating request use, tightening the market.

Elsewhere successful the vigor market, futures connected crude lipid besides spent Monday successful a downturn, arsenic prices connected Brent crude, the planetary benchmark, and US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude some fell astir 2% connected Monday.

Predictions of a coming planetary lipid proviso glut person successful caller months moved from estimation to reality, and lipid markets person begun to terms successful the abundance. And successful a gathering with Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi successful New Delhi connected Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is readying to proceed sending "uninterrupted substance supplies" to India adjacent arsenic the US has ratcheted up unit connected Indian refiners to curb their purchases of Russian barrels.