PrintWall Street Set to Open Little Changed as Investors Await Home Sales, Consumer Sentiment Data
BY MT Newswires | ECONOMIC | 09:23 AM EST09:23 AM EST, 12/19/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US stocks look set to open little changed Friday's trading session as investors look ahead to economic data set for release later in the morning, including existing home sales and consumer sentiment readings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were off 0.03%, S&P 500 futures were up 0.12%, and Nasdaq futures were moving 0.22% higher.
Existing home sales figures for November are set for release at 10:00 am, with analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expecting annual sales to rise to 4.15 million from 4.10 million in October.
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index, which will also be released at 10:00 am, is expected to rise to 53.5 from 53.3, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Oil prices were moving higher, with front-month global benchmarks Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate crude rising 0.80% and 0.89% respectively.
In other world markets, Japan's Nikkei closed 1.03% higher, Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.75%, and China's Shanghai Composite rose 0.36%. In Europe's early afternoon session, the UK's FTSE 100 was flat, while Germany's DAX was up 0.1% and France's CAC was down 0.1%.
In equities, shares of Vision Marine Technologies
WhiteFiber (WYFI) was 16% higher after the company said overnight its subsidiary, Enovum Data Centers, signed a 10-year, 40-megawatt colocation deal with Nscale Global at the NC-1 data center in Madison, North Carolina.
On the losing side, shares of Galectin Therapeutics (GALT) fell 32% after it said Friday that the US Food and Drug Administration denied its request for an in-person or teleconference meeting regarding development of belapectin to treat metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis with cirrhosis and associated complications, providing a written response instead.
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