Cisco stock slips in year-end trade as Fed minutes keep CSCO investors cautious
NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 17:34 ET — After-hours Cisco Systems’ shares closed down 0.49% on Tuesday and edged up slightly in after-hours trading, tracking a muted late-December tape for U.S. technology stocks. The timing matters. With only a handful of sessions left in 2025, thin liquidity can amplify moves in large-cap names, and investors are rebalancing portfolios ahead of early-January data and policy events. Cisco sits near the center of that recalibration because investors treat it as a read-through on enterprise IT budgets and the networking buildout tied to artificial intelligence workloads. Cisco closed at $77.41 and traded as