Biggest Stock Gainers Today: Biotech Breakouts and IBM–Confluent Deal Lead U.S. Market Movers (December 8, 2025)
U.S. stocks traded mostly flat on Monday as Wall Street headed into a crucial Federal Reserve meeting, but under the surface the tape was anything but quiet. While the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average hovered around unchanged and the Nasdaq 100 eked out a small gain, small‑cap and high‑beta names ripped higher, led by a wave of biotech catalysts and a blockbuster AI‑data takeover. According to StockAnalysis.com’s real‑time “Gainers Today” screen, Cemtrex, Structure Therapeutics, Wave Life Sciences, Fulcrum Therapeutics and iBio sat atop the leaderboard by early afternoon, each posting gains of nearly 50% or more. Many of