Stock Market Today: Dow Jones, S&P 500 Futures Slip After Christmas Day—Nvidia, Sobr Safe, Biohaven In Focus

Benzinga

U.S. stock futures slipped on Friday after Wednesday’s higher close. Futures of major benchmark indices fell.  The New York Stock Exchange closed early at 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday and remained closed Thursday for Christmas Day. On the economic data front, U.S. initial jobless claims declined by 10,000 from the previous week to 214,000 in the week ending Dec. 20, compared to market estimates of 223,000.  Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.15%, and the two-year bond was at 3.51%. The CME Group's FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing an 84.5% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in January.  The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), which track the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq 100 index, respectively, were lower in premarket on Friday. The SPY was down 0.029% at $690.18, while the QQQ declined 0.014% to $623.84, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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00:00all right futures under slight pressure here the day after christmas for friday december 26th

00:14although they are up off of the lows and very close to unchanged s&p futures are actually down

00:200.02 percent dow futures are down 0.01 or excuse me 0.09 percent and the nasdaq actually turned green

00:30that's higher by 0.05 so initially when we started the pre-market here today all of the indices were

00:37down very very slightly on very very light volume they appear as if they've come up off the lows

00:42the nasdaq the first to go red to green here let's take a look at some cues from last session

00:49consumer staples real estate and utility stocks recorded the biggest gains on the half day on

00:57wednesday while energy stocks bucked the trend to close lower that's notable because a lot of us

01:03suspect energy is actually going to be a theme in 2026 the new york stock exchange closed early at

01:111 p.m on wednesday and remained closed yesterday for the christmas holiday on the economic data front

01:17the u.s initial jobless claims declined by 10 000 from the previous week to 214 000 in the week ending

01:24december 20th compared to market estimates of 223 000 meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond yielded 4.15

01:32percent and the two-year bond was at 3.51 percent now we have several stocks in focus here for you

01:40today as we close the year out first one here is going to be nvidia ticker nvda shares rose 0.58

01:46after it announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with ai chip startup grok that's g-r-o-q

01:54not g-r-o-k which you might know from twitter or x grok g-r-o-q which was founded in 2016 grok has

02:04entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with nvidia covering its inference technology so some more

02:10partnership there for ai the next stock on our list here is going to be dynavax and this is a

02:16carryover from wednesday ticker dvax shares surged 38.19 following sanofi's announcement to acquire

02:25the vaccine company so once again no trade here but if you were holding dvax uh your time has come

02:32because that premium has been paid and the stock is up and higher on that takeout the next stock on

02:38our list here is going to be sober safe this is one of our smaller movers the ticker is sobr it

02:44dropped 15.61 percent after announcing definitive agreements to issue 1.29 million shares of common

02:52stock at 155 per share and associated warrants in a private placement see if that can catch any type

02:59of bounce here today the next stock is going to be davis commodities the ticker on this one is dtck

03:06and shares jumped 7.19 percent after reporting revenue of 95 million for the first six months

03:13that ended june 30th that was up 42.1 percent from the 66.9 million a year earlier according to the

03:20company's statement the last stock on our list here is going to be bio haven and the ticker on this one

03:26is bhvn shares slumped 14 plus percent after it disclosed that its phase two proof of concept

03:35study for bhv 7 000 in major depressive order failed to meet its primary endpoint next step here on bhvn

03:45would be to check what else this company has in its pipeline but on the back of this news here we are

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