{"id":57402,"date":"2025-12-26T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-advances-amid-muted-holiday-trading-and-strong-economic-data\/57402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:09:17","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-advances-amid-muted-holiday-trading-and-strong-economic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-advances-amid-muted-holiday-trading-and-strong-economic-data\/57402\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Advances Amid Muted Holiday Trading and Strong Economic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average<\/strong> (^DJI) was up 288.75<\/strong> (0.5961%<\/strong>) points today, trading at 48731.16<\/strong>. This positive movement comes as U.S. markets resume full trading sessions after the Christmas holiday, though overall trading volumes are expected to remain light ahead of the New Year's week. Despite the typically muted holiday period, the blue-chip index continues to build on recent momentum, having set new record closing highs earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

The main narrative driving the market today<\/a> is a combination of stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth<\/strong> and the persistent strength of the artificial intelligence (AI) trade<\/strong>. Investor sentiment was significantly bolstered by the release of third-quarter U.S. gross domestic product data, which showed a robust growth of 4.3%<\/strong>, surpassing the 3.2%<\/strong> consensus estimate. This economic resilience, coupled with the ongoing enthusiasm for AI-related companies, has contributed to the upward trajectory of major indexes. The market is also experiencing what some refer to as a "Santa Claus rally," a seasonal phenomenon often seen in late December.<\/p>\n

Among the Dow components, Nike<\/strong> (NKE<\/a>) was the biggest gainer, surging by 4.64%<\/strong>. This notable increase followed reports that Apple<\/strong> CEO Tim Cook<\/strong> disclosed a personal purchase of Nike<\/strong> shares. Other significant gainers included Merck<\/strong> (MRK<\/a>), which rose by 1.34%<\/strong>, Disney<\/strong> (DIS<\/a>) up 1.11%<\/strong>, and Goldman Sachs<\/strong> (GS<\/a>) increasing by 1.01%<\/strong>. On the other end, Nvidia<\/strong> (NVDA<\/a>) was among the biggest decliners, down -0.61%<\/strong>, while Cisco Systems<\/strong> (CSCO<\/a>) saw a slight decrease of -0.18%<\/strong>. Amazon<\/strong> (AMZN<\/a>) and Honeywell<\/strong> (HON<\/a>) also experienced minor dips of -0.06%<\/strong>, and Chevron<\/strong> (CVX<\/a>) was marginally down by -0.01%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was up 288.75 (0.5961%) points today, trading at 48731.16. This positive movement comes as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[633,1067,1160,3280,3703,4350,5160,5385,15148],"class_list":["post-57402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-nvda","tag-mrk","tag-nke","tag-djia","tag-ai","tag-dow-jones","tag-economic-data","tag-us-stock-market","tag-ai-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}