CNBC Daily Open: November hasn't been kind — or typical — for U.S. stocks

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Traders enactment connected the level astatine the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) successful New York City, U.S., Nov. 26, 2025.

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The U.S. banal marketplace was closed Thursday stateside for Thanksgiving Day and volition reopen connected Friday until 1 p.m. ET.

With astir conscionable 3 hours of trading near for the month, large U.S. indexes are looking to extremity November successful the red, based connected CNBC calculations.

As of Wednesday's close, the S&P 500 was down 0.4% period to date, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.29% little during the aforesaid play and the Nasdaq Composite retreating 2.15%, vastly underperforming its siblings arsenic exertion stocks stumbled successful November.

Unless there's a immense leap successful stocks during the shortened trading league connected Friday stateside — which mightiness not beryllium an unequivocally affirmative determination since it would rise much questions astir the market's sustainability — that means the indexes are connected way to drawback their winning streaks. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average person risen successful the past six months, and the Nasdaq Composite seven.

It volition besides people a divergence from the humanities norm. The S&P 500 has precocious an average of 1.8% successful November since 1950, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac. And successful the twelvemonth pursuing a U.S. statesmanlike election, it typically rises 1.6%.

But it's not been a emblematic post-presidential predetermination year. It's hard to spot the market, successful the coming months, oregon adjacent years, moving according to immoderate humanities trajectory.

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U.S. futures are mostly level Thursday night. The banal marketplace was closed during the day for Thanksgiving successful the U.S. Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Friday. Japan's Nikkei 225 ticked up successful volatile trading aft Tokyo ostentation came successful hotter than expected.

Trump to suspend migration from 'Third World Countries.' The U.S. president volition besides cancel national benefits and subsidies to "noncitizens" successful the country, helium said successful Truth Social posts connected Thursday nighttime stateside. Trump did not specify which countries would beryllium affected.

South Korea imposes sanctions connected Prince Group. The Cambodian conglomerate is accused of moving large-scale fraud operations crossed Southeast Asia. The U.S., U.K. and Singapore person besides imposed punitive measures connected the company.

Russia is acceptable for 'serious' discussions for peace. The U.S.-led model "can beryllium the ground for aboriginal agreements," Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, arsenic translated by Reuters. He added that the U.S. seemed to take Moscow's presumption "into account."

[PRO] Bank of America doesn't spot overmuch upside for 2026. The S&P 500 should emergence by a single-digit percent point, a slowdown from caller years due to the fact that 1 supporting origin volition beryllium shrinking, said a strategist from the bank.

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