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Happy Monday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Dec. 22, 2025. You can follow the latest updates on the market here in our daily live blog.
That’s the closing bell. Here’s how today turned finished out:
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Russell 2000: 2,556.50 (+1.07%)
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S&P 500: 6,878.49 (+0.64%)
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Nasdaq: 23,428.83 (+0.52%)
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Dow: 48,362.68 (+0.47%)
With its gains today, the Russell 2000 is once again above the Dow in the year-to-date race.
Through midday, the Santa Claus rally appears to be continuing. The Russell 2000 (+1.42%) is now decisively leading the pack, led by strong showings in technology, healthcare, and industrials. Take a look:
That same trend is getting played out in the large cap indexes, too: the S&P 500 (+0.61%), Dow (+0.55%), and Nasdaq (+0.52%) are seeing similar sectors advance.
A fairly impressive 65.4% (3,629) issues are advancing against 32.1% (1,873) in decline. Speaking of which, here are the top and bottom 20 performers on the market.
Here are today’s movers:
At the top of the market, Hycroft Mining (+56.3%) is jumping after reporting results from its “high-grade silver drill”, which identified the “highest grades to date” in the area of a proposed development.
It’s trailed by D-Wave Quantum (+19.5%), which jumped after reporting it would showcase at CES 2026, promising to “bring commercial quantum computing” to the conference.
Rounding out the top three, Applied Optoelectronics (+18.9%) jumped as investor confidence continued to boil up in the stock; the company accepted an order for its first “800G data center transceivers” earlier this month.
You could be forgiven if you haven’t heard of any of these firms. Further down the list, a slew of space-faring firms which have become common staples on the movers list are also showing out — often to the score of double digits. Rocket Lab (+11%) hit a new all-time high of $78.27 today. There’s also a number of quantum computing names which jumped.
On the other end of the market, Axia Energia ADR(-21.8%) dropped after releasing its reorganization plan, which will see some substantial changes in the Brazilian power firm’s current share structure.
It was trailed by Edgewise Therapeutics (-15.9%), which fell despite lack of clear news. WeShop Holdings (-15%), a staple on this list due to its volatility and high concentration of retail shareholders, rounded out the top three.
We’d also be remiss if we forgot to mention Trump Media (-10%), which is coming back down to Earth after announcing a merger with a fusion power company last week.
The sun hath risen on this Christmas trading week. Out of the gate, the Russell 2000 (+0.96%) is showing the most strength, up nearly one percent. Large cap indexes like the S&P 500 (+0.45%), Nasdaq (+0.41%), and Dow (+0.35%) are further behind, but still trading to the upside this morning amid a bounce in tech-related names.
Driving headlines this morning are murmurs that Nvidia(+1.1%) will begin shipping its more advanced H200 AI chips to China early next year, which has given tech names an injection of optimism to start the week. Tesla (+3%) also hit an all-time high on Robotaxi optimism, approaching $500/sh.
However, it’s not just tech leading the charge higher; it’s joined by financials, consumer-exposed plays, and the energy sector. Another plot line to watch today is Paramount Skydance (+3%) coming back to Warner Bros. Discovery (+3.4%) with an improved offer, which is weighing on Netflix (-1%) stock this morning — see that really bright red stock in the tech services sector?
Beyond equities, the 10Y Treasury is 1.2 bips higher at 4.163%, while the 20Y and 30Y are both 0.7 bips higher at 4.792% and 4.835% respectively. The fixed income market seems to be modestly reactive after comments this morning by the Fed’s Stephen Miran, who spoke this morning about recent data and recession risk.
In continuous contracts, Gold (+1.64%) is just off all-time highs this morning at $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 such as WTI Crude (+2.55% to $57.96) are also seen higher after a series of downward trading days for the U.S. oil benchmark, while Natural Gas (-2.4851% to $3.884) extends its skid.
Happy Monday. With last week’s final full trading week behind us, there’s only abbreviated trading for the rest of 2025. It has been a whiplash-tactic experience, with traders opening the year on high expectations, paling back those high hopes for the markets amid tariff tumult, only to end the year on a high note.
Kicking off this holiday week, the Cboe Volatility Index is at a nearly three-month low, while U.S. equities benchmarks are only a touch below all-time highs. And with a few trading days left in the year, benchmarks have the ability to set even higher highs, continuing a weeks-long ‘Santa Rally.’
However, those ‘few trading days’ will be precious. With the market slated to close early this Wednesday (Christmas Eve) and closed on Thursday (Christmas Day), investors will have an exceptionally abbreviated market week to work with this week — whether that will be a positive or negative remains to be seen.
That said, the earnings and data slate today will be fairly mundane. Per Nasdaq, there are now firms set to report that are worth at least a $1 billion market cap. And in economic data, the overdue Chicago Fed National Activity Index (which came in at -0.21 in September) is already out for today, leaving us with a fairly open slate for the Monday session. We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see anything really substantial, aside from your usual headlines.
This story was originally published by TheStreet on Dec 22, 2025, where it first appeared in the Latest Business & Market News section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
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