Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq rise as Oracle and Nvidia lead AI trading revival

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq rise as Oracle and Nvidia lead AI trading revival

By Karen Friar
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 23:54:00

U.S. stocks rose on Friday after breaking a recent losing streak. as a sign of cooling inflation And fading AI concerns buoyed Wall Street’s optimism at the end of a turbulent week.

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) gained 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose by over 1.3%, building on Thursday’s value roaring rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose by 0.3%.

With the end-of-week rebound, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted weekly gains, rising 0.1% and 0.4%, respectively, in the last full trading week of 2025, as Wall Street aims for a year-end “Santa Claus rally.” The Dow fell 0.6% for the week.

In the technical area, Oracle (ORCL) The stock jumped after Chinese company ByteDance signed deals Create a US TikTok Joint venture, including the company, which has had a turbulent week. Faith in AI trading has been strengthened again by Nvidia (NVDA), whose shares appeared in a Reuters report that the Check the USA Prospects for sales of its H200 chips in China.

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