Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures muted as rocky month draws to an end, CME restores trading

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Fri, November 28, 2025 astatine 8:01 AM CST 2 min read

US banal futures were muted arsenic a holiday-shortened week and downbeat period drew to a adjacent and arsenic the Chicago Mercantile Exchange resumed trading pursuing a information halfway glitch.

Futures connected the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) were up 0.1%, portion those connected the S&P 500 (ES=F) added 0.2%. Contracts connected the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) roseate 0.3%.

The CME Group restored operations aft a agelong outage disrupted unrecorded trading successful futures and options crossed respective markets worldwide, including US Treasurys and US crude oil. Individual stocks appeared to commercialized without problems. The disruption lasted until 8:30 a.m. ET, erstwhile CME said it resolved the outage.

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Stocks person rebounded sharply this week arsenic traders ramped up bets that the Federal Reserve volition chopped involvement rates astatine its gathering successful December, little than 2 weeks away. Renewed religion successful the AI commercialized provided a tailwind for tech names successful the run-up to Thursday's trading shutdown for the Thanksgiving holiday.

But erstwhile trading resumes connected Friday, the Wall Street indexes volition beryllium staring down a losing month. A crisp cooldown successful megacap tech names has led to a diminution for November, arsenic investors reassessed however rapidly AI-driven businesses tin construe hype into sustainable profits.

By Wednesday’s close, some the Dow and S&P 500 were somewhat little for the month, connected way to extremity a six-month winning streak. The Nasdaq, down 2% truthful far, is connected way to drawback a seven-month tally of gains.

As November wraps up, analysts are rolling retired their stock-market predictions for the twelvemonth ahead. Deutsche Bank has acceptable a people for the S&P 500 of 8,000 by the extremity of 2026, astatine the highest extremity of forecasts. HSBC and JPMorgan expect the benchmark scale to hover astir the 7,500 mark.

Markets volition adjacent aboriginal connected Friday, astatine 1 p.m. ET, with nary large net oregon economical information releases connected the docket.

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CME partially restores operations with restart of FX platform

The CME (CME) has started to gradually reconstruct operations aboriginal Friday aft halting trading of futures and options for respective hours, acknowledgment to a method glitch.

Foreign-exchange level EBS opened for trading astatine astir 7 a.m. ET, according to a announcement connected the CME website. There was nary denotation of erstwhile different markets stalled by the outage could expect a restart.

"BrokerTec US Actives and BrokerTec EU are present open. Due to a cooling contented astatine CyrusOne information centers, our different markets are presently halted," the announcement said.

Markets successful the US and crossed the satellite were impacted by the CME futures shutdown, with US Treasurys and WTI crude futures among those impacted arsenic enslaved and commodities platforms went dark.

A cooling contented astatine CyrusOne information centers was the basal of the stoppage, according to CME.

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