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US stocks rose on Friday after snapping a recent losing streak, as signs of cooling inflation<\/a> and waning AI worries<\/a> buoyed Wall Street optimism toward the tail end of a topsy-turvy week.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 (^GSPC<\/a>) put on 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC<\/a>) gained over 1.3%, building on Thursday’s roaring rally<\/a>. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI<\/a>) climbed 0.3%.<\/p>\n

With the late-week rebound, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq booked weekly wins, rising 0.1% and 0.4%, respectively, in the last full week of trading in 2025 as Wall Street tries for a “Santa Claus rally” to end the year. The Dow fell 0.6% on the week.<\/p>\n

On the tech front, Oracle (ORCL<\/a>) stock jumped after China’s ByteDance signed deals to create a US TikTok<\/a> joint venture, including the company, which has had a turbulent week. Faith in the AI trade got another boost from Nvidia (NVDA<\/a>), whose shares popped on a Reuters report that the US is reviewing<\/a> prospects for sales of its H200 chips in China.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, nine pharmaceuticals <\/a>struck deals with the Trump administration on Friday to lower drug prices for some Americans in exchange for a three-year tariff exemption on their products.<\/p>\n

Investors got through a catch-up week for economic data with next year’s rate-cut hopes intact, having embraced the outcome of this week’s delayed November reports on jobs and consumer inflation despite warnings over their reliability<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A rosier inflation picture, combined with a weakening job market, has reignited hopes that the Federal Reserve will continue its recent string of easing.<\/p>\n

A plurality of traders are still betting<\/a> on two cuts next year but have shifted more bets in recent days toward more cuts. Friday will bring a final picture of consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan, after the firm’s initial December survey<\/a> found the key measure increasing for the first time in five months.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX<\/a>) rose to hit 4.15% as bond markets across the world absorbed the Bank of Japan’s hike<\/a> in interest rates to the highest level since 1995.<\/p>\n

US stock markets will be open<\/a> as scheduled on Dec. 24 and Dec. 26, the NYSE and Nasdaq said, after President Trump ordered the federal government to close on those days.<\/p>\n

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