Markets Take a Powder on Biggest Earnings Day of the Week

Thursday, October 30, 2025Today was a mostly restful day on Wall Street, with major market indexes snoozing away a chance at new closing highs, which they had set in the early part of the week. We’re still up from early Monday, except for the small-cap Russell 2000, which has taken it on the chin over the past two sessions. The Dow came in -109 points lower at the bell, -0.23% (but was roughly +0.75% during intraday highs), while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down a more significant -0.99% and -1.57%, respect ...