Stock Market Today: Tech Jumpstarts Market In Abbreviated Holiday Trading Week

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Happy Monday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Dec. 22, 2025. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

The prima hath risen connected this Christmas trading week. Out of the gate, the Russell 2000 (+0.96%) is showing the astir strength, up astir 1 percent. Large headdress indexes similar the S&P 500(+0.45%), Nasdaq (+0.41%), and Dow (+0.35%) are further behind, but inactive trading to the upside this greeting amid a bounce successful tech-related names.

Driving headlines this greeting are murmurs that Nvidia(+1.1%) volition statesman shipping its much precocious H200 AI chips to China aboriginal adjacent year, which has fixed tech names an injection of optimism to commencement the week. Tesla (+3%) besides deed an all-time precocious connected Robotaxi optimism, approaching $500/sh.

However, it's not conscionable tech starring the complaint higher; it's joined by financials, consumer-exposed plays, and the vigor sector. Another crippled enactment to ticker contiguous is Paramount Skydance (+3%) coming backmost to Warner Bros. Discovery (+3.4%) with an improved offer, which is weighing connected Netflix (-1%) banal this greeting --- spot that truly agleam reddish banal successful the tech services sector?

Beyond equities, the 10Y Treasury is 1.2 bips higher astatine 4.163%, portion the 20Y and 30Y are some 0.7 bips higher astatine 4.792% and 4.835% respectively. The fixed income marketplace seems to beryllium modestly reactive aft comments this greeting by the Fed's Stephen Miran, who spoke this greeting astir caller information and recession risk.

In continuous contracts, Gold (+1.64%) is conscionable disconnected all-time highs this greeting astatine $4,459.50. It's joined by a rallying Silver (+2.11% to $68.91), Platinum (+4.54% to $2,110.20), and Palladium (+3.39% to $1,847.50). Energy commodities specified arsenic WTI Crude (+2.55% to $57.96) are besides seen higher aft a bid of downward trading days for the U.S. lipid benchmark, portion Natural Gas (-2.4851% to $3.884) extends its skid.

Happy Monday. With past week's last afloat trading week down us, there's lone abbreviated trading for the remainder of 2025. It has been a whiplash-tactic experience, with traders opening the twelvemonth connected precocious expectations, paling backmost those precocious hopes for the markets amid tariff tumult, lone to extremity the twelvemonth connected a precocious note.

Kicking disconnected this vacation week, the Cboe Volatility Index is astatine a astir three-month low, portion U.S. equities benchmarks are lone a interaction beneath all-time highs. And with a fewer trading days near successful the year, benchmarks person the quality to acceptable adjacent higher highs, continuing a weeks-long 'Santa Rally.'