Stock Market Today: Russell 2000 Shines With 2% Jump; Nvidia Sags as Google TPU Threat Comes into Picture

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Happy Tuesday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Nov. 25, 2025. You can follow the latest updates on the market here in our daily live blog.

Update: 4:00 p.m. ET

Closing Bell

The U.S. markets are closed for the day. A remarkable 73.6% (4,075) issues advanced today, with the Russell 2000 (+2.16%) leading the pack among equity indexes.

The Dow (+1.43%) also showed out, led higher by 27 of its 30 components -- Merck (+4.76%), Home Depot (+4.73%), and Nike (+3.35%) saw the largest gains. The sole losers were Coca-Cola (-0.25%), Chevron (-0.72%), and NVIDIA (-2.83%).

In other large cap indexes, the S&P 500(+0.91%) and Nasdaq (+0.67%) lagged small caps and the choosey Dow, dragged down by weakness in tech. The Technology sector of the S&P 500 was up just 0.35%, clearly lagging the rest of the index. Utilities (-0.43%) and Energy (-0.50%) were the sole decliners.

Update: 2:30 p.m. ET

Late Day Movers

To shake it up a little bit today, we let the midday moments breathe. Now, we're back to take a look at the stocks which have been dominating the trading discussion today. Here's our late day movers list, which is full of stocks soaring and sinking today, with at least a $2 billion market cap:

Winners

Atop the list today, the 'AI' company behind Walmart's robotics push Symbotic (+36%) is sprinting higher on an earnings beat. It's joined by Abercrombie & Fitch (+35.4%) and Kohl's (+35.1%) ... might it be that retail is back?

Losers

It almost hurts to acknowledge Jyong Biotech (-14.6%), a repeat member of this list. One day it's up, the next day it's not. You'll notice, by looking at this list enough, that such is life in biotech world.

Burlington Stores (-11.2%) is the worst-situated firm that has nothing to do with health care or biotech today, along with AI-adjacent plays like Semtech (-8.2%) and Advanced Micro Devices (-7%).

And as we mentioned earlier, some of those retail popular trades in quantum computing, crypto, and nuclear land are also getting the hammer today. NuScale Power (-7.2%), BitMine (-6.4%), and Circle Internet Group (-5.6%) are just the worst off in that pocket of the market.

Update: 12:29 p.m. ET

Midday Moments

Halfway through the day, the U.S. markets are now handily the green, despite sagging performance from the market's top stock -- Nvidia(-4.3%). No matter, breadth is showing out in force today.

The Russell 2000 (+1.68%) and Dow (+1.09%) are up more than 1% today, trailed by the S&P 500 (+0.58%) and a Nasdaq (+0.22%) which has managed to poke into the green in the last few minutes.

Here's the Russell 2000, which is greener than Elphaba from the new Wicked film:

You might single out the losses in some of the small cap index's semiconductor, computing, and energy names. Semiconductor, you can look to Nvidia for setting the tone.

Computing, you can see that as some of the speculative excesses of the market getting reined in -- many of those names are quantum computing names with little or no revenue. Plus, insiders have been selling for weeks, angering a lot of the retail crowd.

Lastly, energy. That one sort of speaks for itself. Crude has been crumbling. Continuous futures are now below $58; there might be even more downside, too, as JPMorgan projects a glut could be coming.

Some of these trends replicate in the S&P 500, too: you notice Nvidia right away, along with some chip names. There's also the three sectors of the index down today: energy (-0.77%), tech (-0.34%), and utilities (-0.25%).

Here's the index heat map for some more context:

Update: 9:31 a.m. ET

Opening Bell

The U.S. markets are now open. As mentioned earlier, the Russell 2000 (+0.39%) and Dow (+0.27%) are putting up a healthy showing to start the day, while the Nasdaq (-0.41%) and S&P 500 (-0.12%) are seeing a light decline. These opening prints come amid a slew of economic data -- including overdue reports from September, which were delayed by the government shutdown. They also come in an abbreviated week, which is seeing one last push for earnings season.

Here are today's emerging stories:

Nvidia Declines As Alphabet Ascends

Shares of chip giant Nvidia are down over 4% this morning as Google parent Alphabet hits another 52-week high. It's up more than 2% this morning thanks to the optimism surrounding its new Gemini 3 AI model.

However, there's another reason why Alphabet's win is Nvidia's loss. Gemini 3 runs on Alphabet's own AI TPU chips, rather than Nvidia's GPU architecture -- and last night, a report emerged that Meta might be eying the use of similar technology for its data center expansion.

People could forgive investors for ignoring Alphabet's TPUs when the company was struggling to find its identity with AI, but as the competing chip architecture demonstrates efficiencies over GPUs built by Nvidia and wins over competitors, there's reasons to perk up.

For those who reckon that Nvidia's GPUs are the 'only game in town', that's bad news. It isn't. In fact, it hasn't been for a long time. The news also hammered shares of Advanced Micro Devices, which is down over 6% this morning -- now down more than 23% this month, falling below $200.

WSJ Skewers Meta Data Center Accounting

Anybody else weirded out by the fact that the world's most valuable company is defending itself in private memos to its accountants as "not Enron"? No?

Well, maybe there's reason to perk up. WSJ's Heard on the Street ran a fascinating story that seems to square some of the "aggressive accounting" involved in making Meta's new data center look better than it supposedly really is. They more or less skewer some of the assumptions they've made in building their $27 billion mega build.

Accounting has become a big component of the AI bubble discussion for a number of reasons. Its also been championed by Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame, who has alleged that convenient accounting has helped companies look better than they really are.

Update: 9:04 a.m. ET

Premarket Movers: Kohl's, Zoom, Masimo, Ross Stores

After this morning's slew of economic data, the Nasdaq (-0.26% in futures) and S&P 500 (-0.05%) look set for a decline to start their day, while the Dow (+0.08%) and Russell 2000 (+0.28%) look locked in for a modest gain to start their trading day.

Before the bell tolls, though, here are a cropping of the stocks making the biggest moves before the market opens, per data from MarketWatch:

Winners

Kohl's Corp (+27.4%) is having a dominant morning after naming interim CEO Michael Bender its be permanent CEO, a sign of confidence in the executive's turnaround management of the beleaguered retail chain, which has seen its stock rise 20.9% year-to-date. It's joined by Keysight Technologies (+13%) and Woodward Inc. (+7%), among other firms making strides.

Losers

At the bottom of the movers, Masimo Corp (-17.6%) is seeing marked declines this morning, along with Ross Stores (-7.1%) and Advanced Micro Devices (-6.8%), among others.

Update: 8:34 a.m. ET

A.M. Update

Good morning. Here is the morning update:

Earnings Today: Alibaba, Analog Devices, Dell

This morning, reports from Alibaba, Analog Devices, and Burlington Stores are among the cropping of companies making the A.M. reports. Here's a list of some of the larger reports slated for today, over 50 in total per Nasdaq:

Economic Data + Events: Sept. PPI, CB Consumer Confidence,

This morning, the long-overdue September Producer Price Index (PPI) report was released, showing an acceleration in wholesale inflation prices, which was widely expected. Retail sales for September moderated month-over-month, coming in lighter than expected.

For the rest of the day, we'll be looking out for Business Inventories, Pending Home Sales, and the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Survey at 11:00 a.m. ET. In smaller reports, we'll also have the Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index and Dallas Fed Services Index then, too.

Here are today's big reports, summarized by TradingEconomics:

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