By William Collins, consultant in stock markets – Eurasia Business News, December 17, 2025. Article no 1935
U.S. stocks traded mixed today, with a selloff in major technology names dragging on the Nasdaq while rising crude prices supported energy shares.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped as weakness in big AI and cloud-related names weighed on the benchmark, reversing earlier modest gains.
The Nasdaq composite lost 1.8%, with Nvidia, Broadcom and Oracle all down more than 3% on the day. Tech shares in the S&P 500 fell 2.2%, leading the benchmark lower. The Dow industrials surrendered early gains, dragged down by a slide in shares of Caterpillar.
Treasury yields were mostly muted, as the shorter-end U.S. 2-year Treasury yield (US2Y) ticked down 1 basis point to 3.48%, while the U.S.10-year Treasury yield (US10Y) rose 1 basis point to 4.15%.
Tech sector moves
Large-cap tech and AI chip stocks were under pressure, with names such as Nvidia, Broadcom, ASML, TSMC and AMD all trading lower as investors reassessed lofty valuations tied to AI spending. Oracle was a notable laggard after reports that key financing support for a planned multibillion-dollar data-center project fell through, intensifying concerns about its rising debt load and AI infrastructure spending.
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Oil and energy
Oil prices moved higher, with Brent crude futures gaining more than 1%, extending a recovery from sharp losses earlier in the week.
Brent crude futures moved 1.3% higher to $59.68 a barrel, after skidding Tuesday. Shares of energy companies, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell, rallied.
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The move was linked to supply concerns and comments from President Donald Trump about blocking sanctioned tankers, which helped push crude futures higher and lent support to energy-related stocks.
Spot and CFD pricing put gold around 4,340–4,375 USD per ounce, up roughly 0.8–1.0% from the prior day’s level near 4,300–4,330 USD. Over the prior month, gold had risen about 6–7% and was up close to 70% versus the same date a year earlier, marking one of its strongest yearly advances in decades.
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As of December 17, gold is up about 67–68% compared with its level a year earlier, based on CFD pricing around 4,345 USD per ounce versus roughly 2,590–2,600 USD per ounce 12 months before.
Silver performance
Spot silver was quoted near 65.7–66 USD per ounce, having climbed sharply from just above 62 USD only a few days earlier. The metal had surged dramatically over the year alongside gold, with commentary highlighting strong industrial demand and tight physical supply as key drivers of silver’s outsized percentage gains
Drivers and sentiment
Traders continued to digest recent U.S. Federal Reserve signals on the path of interest-rate cuts and a mix of labor and retail data, which has kept rate-cut expectations in flux. The combination of profit-taking in high-flying tech, questions about AI-related capital spending, and firmer oil prices shifted leadership toward cyclicals and energy while putting pressure on growth-oriented Nasdaq components.
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