New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Weekend Outlook: S&P 500 Near 7,000 as Fed Minutes Loom and Year-End Trading Enters the Final Stretch
NEW YORK — As of 7:52 a.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025, the New York Stock Exchange is closed, leaving investors with a classic “weekend gap” moment: plenty of headlines, no fresh price discovery. That pause comes after Wall Street finished Friday’s post-Christmas session almost unchanged and close to all-time highs, a quiet landing that still left the major U.S. benchmarks up solidly for the week — and strongly positive for the year. Reuters+1 With three NYSE sessions left in 2025 (Monday through Wednesday), investors are now staring at a familiar year-end cocktail: thin liquidity, portfolio “window dressing,” and