After Wall Street closed on the lower side on Monday (December 15, 2025), pressured by the decline in AI stocks, stock futures traded near the flat line during the overnight hours, witnessing little change as traders anticipated the release of November’s jobs report. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 21 points, or 0.04%. S&P 500 futures slipped 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 futures dropped nearly 0.2%, according to CNBC.
The three benchmark U.S. indexes—S&P 500, NASDAQ, and Dow Jones—closed Monday in the red. The broad market S&P 500 lost 0.16% to settle at 6,816.51 after beginning the session in positive territory. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 41.49 points, or 0.09%, to finish at 48,416.56, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.59% to 23,057.41.
AI stocks dictate key indexes
The movement in the broader market was influenced by certain AI stocks, which witnessed a decline, including Broadcom and Oracle, which fell by more than 5% and more than 2%, respectively. Nvidia, the chip company that’s become the face of the AI boom, added 0.9%. It was one of the strongest forces pushing upward on the S&P 500 on Monday after dropping 4.1% last week. Palantir Technologies rose 1.5%.
AI stocks have been shaky on worries that the billions of dollars flowing into chips and data centers may not produce a big-enough payoff to make it worth it, according to news agency AP. The emerging doubts have been a cause of concern for investors, as they are causing cracks for the industry, whose earlier surge was the key driver for the U.S. market’s rally to records.
Jobs and inflation reports
Besides AI, the main focus on Wall Street this week will be on what several big updates on the US economy’s health say. On Tuesday will come the jobs report for November, and economists expect it to show employers added 40,000 more jobs than they cut during the month. Thursday will bring an update on the inflation, and economists expect it to show U.S. consumers paid prices that were 3.1% higher in November than a year before.