📉 TL;DR — What Moved, What Didn’t
Wall Street started the new year with a hangover: stocks slid in holiday-thin trading and closed 2025 lower. Investors did some profit-taking (selling winners to lock in gains) after a strong year powered by AI stocks. Small caps lagged, a sign risk appetite cooled at the margin.
Gold & Silver dropped hard after exchanges raised the cash required to hold futures, which can force selling. Bitcoin was mostly steady midweek, but still finished 2025 in the red as macro headlines stayed loud. The U.S. market is closed today for New Year’s Day and reopens Friday.
Quick Levels → Week-to-date change
S&P 500: 6,845.49 | ↓1.22% Nasdaq 100: 25,249.85 | ↓1.54% Dow: 48,063.28 | ↓1.33% Russell 2000: 2,481.91 | ↓2.07% | Gold /oz: $4,322 | ↓4.65% Silver/oz: $71.64 | ↓9.67% Bitcoin (BTC): $87,802 | ↓0.11% DXY (US Dollar Index): 98.28 | ↑0.23% |
🚀 Top Movers This Week
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FTAI Aviation (FTAI): ↑13.01% — Rallied after unveiling FTAI Power plan to convert spare jet engines into AI generators.
Silver (XAGUSD) ↓9.67% — CME raised margin requirements; thin holiday liquidity amplified selling after a parabolic 2025 rally.
CoreWeave (CRWV) ↓6.29% — Slid as capital-heavy AI data-center names fell, with leverage worries back in focus.
Tesla (TSLA) ↓5.36% — Dropped as robotaxi deadline doubts and delivery jitters hit sentiment heading into New Year’s.
Coinbase (COIN) ↓4.54% — Fell with bitcoin’s late-December slide, weighing on crypto-exposed stocks into year-end again.