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Happy Wednesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Dec. 17, 2025. You can follow the latest updates on the market here in our daily live blog.

Update 9:34 a.m ET

Opening Bell

The U.S. markets are now open. The Russell 2000 (+0.57%) has already reversed yesterday’s -0.45% decline from yesterday; it’s now just a matter of holding onto those gains for the day.

In large caps, the Dow (+0.36%) is also having a solid start to the day. The S&P 500(+0.12%) and Nasdaq (+0.09%), by contrast, are just up a few basis points at the market open. For the former, a gain today would put an end to a three day skid for the index.

The 10Y is up 0.8 bips to 4.157%.

One of the foreboding themes of the Tuesday trade — aside from so-so payrolls — was the large decline in U.S. energy stocks. The S&P Energy sector declined 3% as domestic oil prices approached a nearly four-year low. This morning, the U.S. oil benchmark known as WTI Crude, is trading at $56 — up about 1.5%.

Today, the sector is up about 1%, taking a bite of some of yesterday’s losses. Financials and materials are also joining in the recovery, up more than half a percentage point.

Joining in some of that excitement are Natural Gas continuous futures (+2.96% to $4.001) and the international oil benchmark, Brent Crude (+1.46% to $59.78), which is seeing a healthy bump in its continuous futures too.

But since it’s the holiday season, there might not be a more timely trade than Silver (+3.75% and $65.675) and Gold (+0.81% to $4,367) — they’re up again today, continuing a hefty showing from precious metals in recent trading.

We’ll update this section with more information this morning as it emerges.

Update 7:43 a.m ET

A.M. Update

Good morning. Futures this morning are currently pointing to modest gains in U.S. equities this morning, potentially offsetting Tuesday’s tepid payrolls market reaction.

Earnings Today: Micron, JBS, General Mills

Here are all of the companies with at least a $1 billion market cap which are slated to report today, per Nasdaq:

Economic Data + Events

Today will be a fairly relaxed day compared with yesterday, which saw the release of the overdue October payrolls alongside November’s data. Here is what is on deck for today: