{"id":57515,"date":"2025-12-31T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-ends-2025-with-modest-dip-amid-tech-pressure\/57515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:09:16","slug":"dowjonestodaydow-jones-ends-2025-with-modest-dip-amid-tech-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/dowjonestodaydow-jones-ends-2025-with-modest-dip-amid-tech-pressure\/57515\/","title":{"rendered":"[DowJonesToday]Dow Jones Ends 2025 with Modest Dip Amid Tech Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones<\/a> Industrial Average (^DJI) was down 94.87 points (-0.1958%)<\/strong> on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, as U.S. markets concluded the final trading day of the year. This modest decline reflected a broader trend of lower stock futures and continued pressure on technology and artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, marking a slight pullback at year-end despite overall strong annual gains for the major indexes. Bond markets saw an early close, while equity markets maintained regular hours before the New Year's Day holiday closure.<\/p>\n

The main narrative driving the market today<\/a> was a combination of year-end profit-taking and persistent concerns surrounding the technology sector, particularly AI-focused companies. This comes after a robust year for the S&P 500<\/a> and Nasdaq, which have seen significant gains largely fueled by advancements in AI. Amidst this backdrop, commodity markets, including gold<\/a>, silver<\/a>, and copper, experienced notable upward movement, resuming their ascent after earlier declines.<\/p>\n

Among the Dow's components, Nike<\/strong> (NKE<\/a>) emerged as the top gainer, rising 1.50%<\/strong> following news of its CEO's share purchase. Other strong performers included Chevron<\/strong> (CVX<\/a>) up 0.87%<\/strong>, UnitedHealth Group<\/strong> (UNH<\/a>) gaining 0.74%<\/strong>, Boeing<\/strong> (BA<\/a>) increasing 0.69%<\/strong>, and Walt Disney<\/strong> (DIS<\/a>) advancing 0.60%<\/strong>. Conversely, IBM<\/strong> (IBM<\/a>) was the biggest laggard, falling 1.32%<\/strong>. Other significant losers included Goldman Sachs<\/strong> (GS<\/a>) down 0.98%<\/strong>, Cisco Systems<\/strong> (CSCO<\/a>) declining 0.87%<\/strong>, Nvidia<\/strong> (NVDA<\/a>) dropping 0.61%<\/strong>, and Walmart<\/strong> (WMT<\/a>) decreasing 0.60%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down 94.87 points (-0.1958%) on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, as U.S. markets concluded […]<\/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":[293,633,1160,2081,3016,3703,4350,4380,16103],"class_list":["post-57515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-ibm","tag-nvda","tag-nke","tag-technology-stocks","tag-dji","tag-ai","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market","tag-year-end-trading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57515","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=57515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57515\/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=57515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}