Dow hits a record high after December jobs report
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Dow Jones and Polymarket said Wednesday that they signed an exclusive agreement under which Polymarket’s real-time prediction market data will be made available across Dow Jones’ US financial media properties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Data from Polymarket on betting odds for economic, political, and cultural topics would be displayed in dedicated modules across Dow Jones’s online content platforms, which include the Journal, MarketWatch,
Polymarket (POLYMARKET), which bills itself as the world's largest prediction market, said it will make its real-time prediction market data available across Dow Jones's consumer platforms, including The Wall Street Journal,
Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones set new records today, extending an "everything rally" that also saw gold, silver, and copper near their highs. It is unusual to see safe-haven assets surge alongside equities, and this shift in investor behaviour could be driven by geopolitical uncertainty and AI driven demand for metals.
The U.S. stock market was climbing midday Friday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each trading in record territory. . The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up about 261 points, or 0.5%,
News Corp's Dow Jones said on Wednesday it had signed an exclusive deal with Polymarket to bring real-time prediction market data to its outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch.
Stocks advanced further Tuesday, a day after major equities indexes ended sharply higher following the weekend capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average got its first all-time high of 2026—but fell just short of closing above 49000 for the first time. The index was up as much as 1.7% in midday trading, then faded a bit to end the day at 48977.
Despite a more than 14% year-to-date gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average as of market close on Dec. 26, there are five Dow stocks that are down 10% or more in 2025: Home Depot ( HD 0.65%), Procter & Gamble ( PG 0.51%), Nike ( NKE +4.12%), Salesforce ( CRM 0.38%), and UnitedHealth Group ( UNH 0.62%).
U.S. stocks closed higher Friday after investors assessed a highly anticipated jobs report, with all three major benchmarks scoring weekly gains in a broad market rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.
Broad-based gains across healthcare and smaller technology stocks sent the Dow industrials and S&P 500 to new records.
Major stock indexes finished mixed Thursday, with the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rising but the tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled lower by data-storage shares.