Stock futures are little changed, Wall Street heads for winning week: Live updates

U.S. banal futures were small changed Friday arsenic traders came backmost from the Christmas holiday, with the large averages connected gait for play gains.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 57 points, oregon 0.1%. S&P 500 futures hovered astir the flatline alongside Nasdaq-100 futures.

For the week, the S&P 500 was up 1.4%, putting the benchmark connected way for its 4th play beforehand successful 5 weeks. The Dow and Nasdaq were besides up much than 1% week to date.

Wall Street is besides coming disconnected a record-setting session, with the S&P 500 mounting caller intraday and closing all-time highs connected Wednesday. U.S. markets were closed Thursday owed to the Christmas holiday.

"2025 is coming to an extremity with a fewer much positives than negatives this year," wrote Mark Newton, caput of method strategy astatine Fundstrat. "While the communal communicative revolves astir an "AI Bubble" and tariff fears, on with volatility perchance surrounding different authorities shutdown and/or tariffs and inflation, U.S. stocks person mostly ignored each of these fears frankincense far, heading into precocious 2025."

Investors are besides successful a historically beardown seasonal period, arsenic they await a imaginable Santa Claus rally. The rally occurs betwixt the past 5 trading days of the twelvemonth and the archetypal 2 of the caller year. Data from the Stock Trader's Almanac shows the S&P 500 averages a 1.3% summation during that clip going backmost to 1950.