Nasdaq Today: Futures Slide Before Delayed Jobs Report as AI Stocks Stay Under Pressure (Premarket, Dec. 16, 2025)
NEW YORK — December 16, 2025 — Nasdaq is heading into Tuesday’s session on shaky footing, with Nasdaq-100 futures lower in early trading as investors brace for a rare, shutdown-delayed double dose of U.S. labor-market data, fresh retail sales figures, and flash PMI readings that could reshape expectations for growth, inflation, and the path of interest rates into 2026. Investing.com+2Reuters+2 The cautious premarket tone follows a downbeat start to the final full trading week of 2025, with the market still wrestling with two big questions: is the AI trade losing leadership? and will the next wave of economic data validate—or challenge—the soft-landing narrative? Investing.com+2Reuters+2