The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will close early at 1 p.m. ET on Black Friday. After Black Friday, U.S. markets will resume normal hours until closing early on Christmas Eve. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now it's time to get back to business.

Here are the top stories to read ahead of Friday's trading:

Futures trading was suspended on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday morning after the exchange said "a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centers" in Chicago forced a halt to trading. "Globex futures and options markets,

Nvidia shares rally; weekly jobless claims roll in

Wall Street is currently digesting a fresh wave of quarterly operating results from American tech giants like Nvidia, which provided a valuable update on the state of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. However, as we approach the end of 2025, there is another event analysts are eagerly anticipating.

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Here's a look at the stock market schedule for the 2025 holiday season, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.

Stock futures pointed slightly higher before a tech outage halted trading on Black Friday, with major indexes poised to record their best week since June. Stock and bond markets will close early today.