U.S. stock markets are navigating a holiday-shortened Black Friday session today, November 28, 2025, marked by early trading gains in futures that were briefly interrupted by a technical outage at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group). Despite this hiccup, major indexes are poised to close out the week with significant advances, although they remain on track for a monthly decline in November. The market's underlying sentiment continues to be buoyed by increasing expectations of a Federal Reserve inter ...