Stock Market Today: Dow, Russell 2000 Jump; Nasdaq Falls As Fed Decision Looms Heavy

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The Federal Reserve's 3rd consecutive complaint chopped of the twelvemonth -- and its last of 2025 -- is apt conscionable an hr and a fractional away.

In response, the marketplace has bifurcated. With traders wide expecting the cut, the Russell 2000 (+0.22%) is continuing its caller winning streak today. Yesterday, it acceptable a caller intraday high, closing narrowly beneath the levels required to notch a grounds close. Today mightiness beryllium a antithetic story, assuming traders tin judge the cardinal bank's positioning heading into 2026.

By contrast, the S&P 500(+0.02%) is astir flat, portion the Nasdaq (-0.30%) is facing declines arsenic the determination weighs connected tech. The Dow (+0.35%) is starring among benchmarks today, acknowledgment to immoderate assistance from user discretionary names and financials, which are offsetting the tech names.

You tin spot this inclination playing retired extracurricular of the Dow arsenic well; successful the Russell 2000, financials and user cyclical names are truly lasting retired today. Check retired the vigor map:

In total, 57% (3,166) issues are advancing, against 40.1% (2,224) successful decline. Zooming successful and looking astatine stocks with astatine slightest a $2 cardinal marketplace cap, we tin get immoderate colour for the biggest stories successful those thousands -- our midday mover database seeks to bash that by capturing a snapshot of the apical and bottommost 20 stocks. Here they are for today:

At the apical of the marketplace is Photronics (+37%, beardown earnings). It's joined by Warby Parker (+17.5%, quality of Google AI glasses partnership), Braze (+15.3%, beardown earnings), and GE Vernova (+13.6%, boosted 2026 outlook astatine Investor Event).

Outside of the apical three, the large inclination contiguous seems to beryllium space: Firefly Aerospace (+8.1%), EchoStar (+6.8%), and Rocket Lab (+6.1%) are each higher amid renewed chatter by AI giants to enactment information centers successful space.

On the different extremity of the market, drone shaper AeroVironment (-10.3%) is declining aft cutting its outlook successful its quarterly earnings. It's followed successful speedy succession by Dutch insurer Aegon (-9.7%, plans to relocate to the U.S. and rebrand), Anbio Biotechnology (-8.9%, repetition member; volatility), and Uranium Energy Corp (-8.4%, mediocre net erased caller rally).

In notable names declining today: Lyft (-7.8%) is falling successful sympathy with Uber (-6.1%), which was IDed arsenic a imaginable "AI Loser" successful a study published by Wedbush yesterday. Another sanction successful that report, Maplebear (-6.8%), is besides connected our decliners database today. The institution besides named Adobe, Intel, and Pinterest as imaginable losers.