After Wall Street ended the week on Friday (November 21, 2025) on the higher side, US stocks futures also posted a strong showing with three key indices, S&P 500, Dow and NASDAQ recording gains.
As of Friday November 21 2025 5:38 PM EST, Dow futures increased by 552 points with the index closing at 45,752.26 and the futures rising to 46,377, according to CNBC. S&P 500 futures also advanced. The index closed at 6,538.76, while futures moved up to 6,631.5, reflecting a gain of 74 points. NASDAQ futures saw notable momentum as well. The index closed at 24,054.38, and futures climbed to 24,349, an increase of 217.5 points.
Meanwhile, after witnessing multiple fluctuations on Friday morning, the S&P 500 took off and rallied nearly 2% before finishing with a gain of 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 493 points, or 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.9%.
The swings peaked on Thursday (November 21, 2025), when US stocks initially surged after Nvidia seemed to tamp down worries about a potential bubble in artificial-intelligence technology. But the market quickly dropped to a sharp loss in its biggest one-day reversal since April, when President Donald Trump shocked markets with his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
Despite the strong profit report from Nvidia, whose chips are powering the move into AI, worries are still hanging around about the longer term. AI-linked stocks continued to swing on Friday, helping to drag the rest of the market behind them. Nvidia went from an initial gain to a drop of 4.3% and then swung back and forth before finishing with a loss of 1%, for example. Amazon went from an early loss to a gain of 1.6%.
The S&P 500 rose 64.23 points to 6,602.99. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 493.15 to 46,245.41, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 195.03 to 22,273.08.