Merchants work on the ground on the New York Inventory Change (NYSE) in New York Metropolis, U.S., Nov. 26, 2025.
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The U.S. inventory market was closed Thursday stateside for Thanksgiving Day and can reopen on Friday till 1 p.m. ET.
With roughly simply 3 hours of buying and selling left for the month, main U.S. indexes need to finish November within the crimson, based mostly on CNBC calculations.
As of Wednesday’s shut, the S&P 500 was down 0.4% month thus far, the Dow Jones Industrial Common 0.29% decrease throughout the identical interval and the Nasdaq Composite retreating 2.15%, vastly underperforming its siblings as know-how shares stumbled in November.
Except there’s an enormous soar in shares through the shortened buying and selling session on Friday stateside — which could not be an unequivocally constructive transfer since it might increase extra questions concerning the market’s sustainability — which means the indexes are on observe to snap their successful streaks. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Common have risen previously six months, and the Nasdaq Composite seven.
It’ll additionally mark a divergence from the historic norm. The S&P 500 has superior a mean of 1.8% in November since 1950, in keeping with the Inventory Dealer’s Almanac. And within the yr following a U.S. presidential election, it sometimes rises 1.6%.
Nevertheless it’s not been a typical post-presidential election yr. It is laborious to see the market, within the coming months, and even years, shifting in keeping with any historic trajectory.
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U.S. futures are principally flat Thursday night time. The inventory market was closed through the day for Thanksgiving within the U.S. Asia-Pacific markets traded blended Friday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 ticked up in risky buying and selling after Tokyo inflation got here in hotter than anticipated.
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