NEW YORK, January 1, 2026, 09:31 ET — Market closed.
- Apple shares ended the last session down $1.22, or 0.45%, at $271.86 as 2025 wrapped up.
- U.S. stocks fell in holiday-thin trading into the New Year’s Day closure, weighing on big tech.
- Investors are now watching early-January U.S. data, the late-January Fed meeting and Apple’s expected earnings date.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shares slipped $1.22, or 0.45%, to close at $271.86 on Wednesday, the final trading day of 2025. U.S. markets are shut on Thursday for the New Year’s Day holiday.
The move matters because it leaves Apple starting 2026 with investors rotating around megacap tech after a late-December pullback. “It’s just a healthy rebalancing of allocations more so than an emotionally driven sell-off,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide. Reuters
Trading stayed light into the holiday, a backdrop that can amplify moves when large investors step away. The S&P 500 fell 0.74% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.76% on Wednesday, with technology among the weakest groups, Reuters reported.
Apple’s decline left the stock roughly 5.8% below its 52-week high of $288.62 and near its 50-day moving average of $272.47, a widely watched trend gauge. Yahoo Finance data show Apple is up about 12% over the past 52 weeks.
A separate Apple headline surfaced late Wednesday when the company teased “big” updates planned for 2026 for its Fitness+ subscription service in an Instagram post, without providing details. Business Insider
The year-end slide came even as Wall Street booked strong annual gains in 2025, with the S&P 500 up 16.39% and the Nasdaq up 20.36%, according to Reuters. Apple’s heavy weighting means even modest moves can influence major indexes.
Before the next session, regular trading is set to resume on Friday, Jan. 2, after Thursday’s holiday closure.
On the macro front, markets are heading into a data-heavy January, led by the U.S. December employment report on Jan. 9 and the December CPI report on Jan. 13, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics schedule.
The Federal Reserve’s next rate-setting meeting is scheduled for Jan. 27-28, a focal point for technology valuations that tend to be sensitive to interest-rate expectations.
For Apple, attention turns to the company’s next results, which market calendars currently flag for Jan. 29 after the close, though that date is listed as an estimate. Investors will be focused on holiday-quarter demand signals, Services revenue trends and management’s outlook for early 2026.
