00:00 Jared
Stocks closed lower. Yahoo Finance’s master of the Wi-Fi Interactive Ines Ferre is standing by with the latest. Ines, what are you watching to close 2025?
00:09 Ines Ferre
Jared, I’m watching those double digit percentage gains in all three major averages for 2025, even though today we saw the major averages lower, but look, for the year, I’m pulling up the year-to-date chart so you can see the Dow up almost 13% year-to-date, the Nasdaq composite up 20% year-to-date, and the S&P 500 up more than 16% year-to-date. Do want to mention the small caps also up more than 11%.
00:40 Ines Ferre
If we take a look under the hood, it’s the tech trade that was really powering the markets this year. Take a look at the technology stocks up 23%, communication services up 21%, industrials up 17% as well. And then looking at the Nasdaq 100, you can see the green on the Mag 7 stocks with Alphabet that has led the gains year-to-date up uh 65% for 2025, and also Nvidia up nearly 39% for 2025.
01:13 Ines Ferre
You’ve got Tesla that’s up double digit percentage gains, 11% uh for the year and Microsoft as well. Also the semiconductors because we mentioned Nvidia, but these were really on fire this year as the AI trade has boomed the markets higher. And so you’re looking at Broadcom up 50% for the year, AMD, Micron up 230% for 2025.
01:40 Ines Ferre
We did see crypto this year in uh in the red, down 7% for the year after it tumbled from all-time highs in October. and then looking at ETH that down 11%. And over on commodities, we have seen a lot of action in the commodity space with crude oil down for the year, down more than 21%. Brent crude down 20% for 2025.
02:08 Ines Ferre
The ones that really had an a stellar year were gold up 62% for the year and silver, despite the volatility that we saw this week, silver still up 137% for 2025. Jared.