Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures trade flat with jobs data set to test early 2026 rally  --  Yahoo Finance  1/6/26 Tue

It is past midnight and I’m afraid I just got home being out all day and eve on business and pleasure, opportunities that don’t very frequently come my way so I had a day of much enjoyed R&R. I say this only to remind everyone that the daily market reports come out around 4:30 each day but by 8 pm more or less vanish. I was able to find something on Yahoo Finance but it’s never as nearly as complete as my usual source, Reuters. However, the charts did show that, after a brief hiccup in the morning, all three indexes had a surge after 11 a.m. with 3-digit gains all around and another especially huge gain on the Dow.  This was explained in the Yahoo report as being triggered by investors more or less ignoring the geopolitical concerns raised by Venezuela and holding on to hopes that the labor reports due later this week will provide the wanted justification for more rate cuts. I am able to provide the closing numbers below as usual and, per the CBOE, volume coming in once again at a whopping 19.2 billion vs the 15.9 billion average. DJ:          48,977.18  +594.79                 NAS:       23,395.82  +160.19                 S&P:       6,902.05  +43.58                     1/5    DJ:          49,462.08  +484.90                 NAS:       23,547.17  +151.35                 S&P:       6,944.82  +42.77                     1/6  (Okay, now I know why I never use Yahoo Finance.  The formatting is always so f'd up!)

Now I remember why I never use Yahoo Finance.  Their formatting is always all f'd up!