Stock Market Today: Nasdaq, S&P 500 Head Higher Before Thanksgiving Market Holiday

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Happy Wednesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Nov. 26, 2025. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

The U.S. markets are present open. As foreshadowed by earlier futures, present are however things are shaping up:

• Nasdaq Composite (+0.62%)

• S&P 500(+0.39%)

• Dow (+0.30%)

• Russell 2000 (-0.08%)

That said, here's immoderate of the processing stories from this morning:

The Chicago PMI is retired and it looks bad. In November, the scale came successful astatine 36.3, versus statement of 44.3. That's the 2nd lowest speechmaking successful the scale since the pandemic, arsenic good arsenic the 24th consecutive declining month. The quality betwixt world and anticipation is an 8 constituent difference, a motion of important strain successful manufacture astir 1 of America's largest metros.

U.S. jobless claims are conscionable retired -- coming successful astatine 216,000 for the week of Nov. 22. That's down from 222K past week and beneath expectations of 225K.

Continuing claims were 1.96 million, a flimsy diminution from past week's 1.974 million. Perhaps it's a motion that the occupation marketplace is steadying aft a worrying acceleration successful layoff data.

Durable goods orders for September mightiness beryllium a small late, but economists and traders are gladsome to instrumentality immoderate bully news. In September, durable goods orders roseate 0.5%, faster than the 0.3% expected. Buoyed by defence aircraft/parts, which grew 30.9%, the complaint of maturation was slower than the 3% summation successful August.

Market indexes are acceptable for immoderate humble gains this greeting according to futures. The Nasdaq Futures (+0.52%) are starring the way, followed by the S&P 500 Futures (+0.33%) and Dow (+0.22%). The Russell 2000 (-0.03%) is astir flat.

That said, per information from MarketWatch, these are the stocks making moves this morning:

Petco Health (+21.9%) is up aft reporting net aft the doorbell yesterday, acold up of different rising names specified arsenic Autodesk (+7.7%, earnings), Bentley Systems (+6.7%, caller news), and Oracle (+6%, expert commentary).

On the different extremity of the market, there's Nutanix (-11.3%), which is cratering aft underdelivering successful its net study aft marketplace yesterday. It's joined by Zscaler (-7%, issued blimpish guidance), Reynolds (-6.3%, nary news), and Workday (-6.2%, anemic boost to full-year guidance).