{"id":56545,"date":"2025-11-27T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-market-update-thanksgiving-holiday-sees-us-markets-closed-rate-cut-hopes-drove-wednesdays-rally\/56545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:09:21","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-market-update-thanksgiving-holiday-sees-us-markets-closed-rate-cut-hopes-drove-wednesdays-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-market-update-thanksgiving-holiday-sees-us-markets-closed-rate-cut-hopes-drove-wednesdays-rally\/56545\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Market Update: Thanksgiving Holiday Sees US Markets Closed, Rate Cut Hopes Drove Wednesday&#8217;s Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. stock market is <strong>closed today, Thursday, November 27, 2025<\/strong>, in observance of the <strong>Thanksgiving holiday<\/strong>. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange (<a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/exchanges\/nyse\/today\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"NYSE Today\">NYSE<\/a>) and Nasdaq will resume on Friday, November 28, 2025, with a shortened session. Therefore, the latest available market data reflects Wednesday&#39;s performance. On Wednesday, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/indices\/dowjones\/today\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Dow Jones Today\">Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average (^DJI)<\/strong> saw a significant uplift, rising <strong>314.67 points (0.6679%)<\/strong> to reach <strong>47427.12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The main narrative driving Wednesday&#39;s market rally was sustained investor optimism surrounding potential <strong>interest rate cuts<\/strong> by the Federal Reserve in December, coupled with renewed enthusiasm for the <strong>artificial intelligence (AI)<\/strong> sector. This sentiment has fueled a four-day winning streak for benchmark indices, helping to erase earlier November losses. Global markets also benefited from these rate-cut hopes, even as U.S. markets prepared for the holiday closure.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Dow components, several stocks posted strong gains on Wednesday. <strong>Boeing (<a href=\"\/stock\/BA\">BA<\/a>)<\/strong> led the advancers, rising <strong>2.46%<\/strong> to <strong>$186.92<\/strong>. Other notable gainers included <strong>Walmart (<a href=\"\/stock\/WMT\">WMT<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was up <strong>2.07%<\/strong> to <strong>$109.10<\/strong>, and <strong>Microsoft (<a href=\"\/stock\/MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>)<\/strong>, seeing a <strong>2.04%<\/strong> increase to <strong>$485.50<\/strong>. Financial institutions also performed well, with <strong>Goldman Sachs (<a href=\"\/stock\/GS\">GS<\/a>)<\/strong> climbing <strong>1.71%<\/strong> to <strong>$816.01<\/strong> and <strong>JPMorgan Chase (<a href=\"\/stock\/JPM\">JPM<\/a>)<\/strong> up <strong>1.64%<\/strong> to <strong>$307.64<\/strong>. Conversely, a few stocks experienced declines. <strong>Salesforce (<a href=\"\/stock\/CRM\">CRM<\/a>)<\/strong> was the biggest laggard, down <strong>2.51%<\/strong> to <strong>$228.15<\/strong>. Other notable decliners included <strong>Merck (<a href=\"\/stock\/MRK\">MRK<\/a>)<\/strong>, which was down <strong>0.73%<\/strong> to <strong>$104.63<\/strong>, and <strong>Honeywell (<a href=\"\/stock\/HON\">HON<\/a>)<\/strong>, decreasing <strong>0.43%<\/strong> to <strong>$189.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. stock market is closed today, Thursday, November 27, 2025, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. 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