Wall St closes lower as investors position for busy week of data

Wall St closes lower as investors position for busy week of data

By Abigail Summerville and Johann M Cherian

December 15, 2025  4:33 PM ESTUpdated 59 mins ago

After Friday’s modest correction after a series of record-breaking days, the indexes continued moving modestly lower again on Monday as investors sit on the fence awaiting a slew of data coming later this week with more labor reports as well as retail sales, business activity and inflation. With the record breakers being mostly due to AI fever and the correction on Friday being mostly due to renewed fears of a possible coming AI bubble in the wake of the fever pitch, the markets have returned to caution until more reports surface.  

As today’s expert put it, “Markets today are struggling with where to find the leadership, in terms of not wanting all the eggs in the AI basket and not having a lot of data yet.”  There is also a fair amount of evaluation underway concerning who may be in charge of the Fed next year, with some pushback even from Trump’s inner circle regarding the qualifications of his dovish pick for Fed candidacy.  At 17.13 billion, volume was almost exactly in line with the 17.1 billion 4-week average. 

DJ: 48,458.05  -245.96         NAS: 23,195.17  -398.69        S&P: 6,827.41  -73.59           12/12

DJ: 48,416.56  -41.49           NAS: 23,057.41  -137.76        S&P: 6,816.51  -10.90           12/15

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