U.S. stock futures are trading in negative territory to start the last trading day of 2025. Wall Street ended in the negative zone in the last three trading days. Financial researchers are skeptical of a Santa Rally this time. Wall Street’s rally of U.S. stocks in 2023 and 2024 continued in 2025, albeit at a slow pace. Year to date, the three major stock indexes — the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite — are up 13.7%, 17.3% and 21.5%, respectively. In 2023, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composi ...