U.S. Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Near 7,000 as Year-End “Santa Rally” Heads Into the Final Week of 2025; Fed Minutes Loom
NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2025, 11:59 a.m. ET — Market Closed (Weekend) Wall Street is closed this Saturday, giving investors a pause to digest a quiet post-Christmas session that left the major U.S. indexes essentially unchanged on Friday—but still near record territory heading into the final trading days of 2025. The takeaway from the last 48 hours is straightforward: stocks…