S&P 500 Sets New Record High On Christmas Eve Before Retreating To End 2025 Up 16% On The Year

2026-01-05 08:24:00 ET

S&P 500 ( SPX ) investors enjoyed a relatively quiet, nearly news-free two weeks to end 2025. The index set a new record high of 6,932.05 just before the Christmas Day holiday, before retreating 1.2% in the next week on little-to-no significant market-moving news to close out 2025 at 6,845.50. On 2026's first day of trading, the index rose to 6,858.47 , just 1.1% below its 24 December 2025 record-high close, as investors started the year with little-to-no market-moving news that could meaningfully alter their outlooks for the year to come....

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