Stock Market Today: Dow Jones, S&P 500 Futures Slip After Weaker-Than-Expected GDP Report—Grail, Candel Therapeutics, Copart In Focus (UPDATED)
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(Editor's note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, and the headline were updated in the story. Figures from economic reports were added.)
U.S. stock futures declined on Friday following the release of key economic data. Futures of all the major benchmark indices ticked lower.
The U.S. economy slowed sharply at the end of 2025, with gross domestic product growing at a 1.4% annualized rate in the fourth quarter, according to advance estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That marked a significant deceleration from the previous quarter's 4.4% pace and fell well short of economists' expectations for 3% growth.
Inflation pressures also edged higher as the headline Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index rose to 2.9% year over year in December, up from
U.S. stock futures declined on Friday following the release of key economic data. Futures of all the major benchmark indices ticked lower.
The U.S. economy slowed sharply at the end of 2025, with gross domestic product growing at a 1.4% annualized rate in the fourth quarter, according to advance estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That marked a significant deceleration from the previous quarter's 4.4% pace and fell well short of economists' expectations for 3% growth.
Inflation pressures also edged higher as the headline Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index rose to 2.9% year over year in December, up from
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