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Economic outlook for 2026, why unemployment could rise next year
Market Catalysts anchor Julie Hyman breaks down the latest market news for December 17, 2025. Investors are looking ahead to 2026 and how three major themes may impact markets and the US economy: inflation, rising unemployment, and AI bubble concerns.
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Nasdaq 100 Elliott Wave Update: Is the Rally to 26700+ In Jeopardy?
Combining Elliott Wave, Seasonality, and a Pi-based Cycle indicates a continued rally to 28000 by late April, 2026.
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Wall Street Gets a Taste of Blockbuster Stock-Market Debuts Ahead
Medline shares began trading under the ticker ‘MDLN' Wednesday in the biggest IPO since 2021.
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Nikkei 225 Struggles As Momentum Fades Ahead Of BOJ Decision
Nikkei 225 struggles below 50,000 as upside momentum fades. Daily RSI drifts into neutral territory, signaling consolidation.
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Paramount Offered David Zaslav Pay Package Of ‘Several Hundred Million Dollars' In Ellison-Backed Bid
$51.9 million. That's how much Zaslav was compensated in Warner Bros.
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10 of the most loved dividend stocks for 2026 — sporting yields of 4% or more
Many are energy stocks that have been crushed as the price of oil has declined — but analysts expect a tremendous rebound for the group.
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Boeing Air Taxi Unit Takes Flight, Joby To Double U.S. Production
Boeing's air taxi subsidiary, Wisk Aero, completes a test flight. Joby ramps up U.S. production.
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AI Power Stocks for 2026
Electricity is a hot commodity in the age of artificial intelligence.
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The Fed's Breaking Point
The Federal Reserve has effectively resumed QE, expanding its balance sheet by $40 billion to support government financing and asset prices. The primary constraint on continued stimulus is inflation and long-duration Treasury yields, not growth or employment.
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U.S. inflation was rising before the shutdown. Tardy CPI to show if prices have gotten worse.
The U.S. jobs market isn't so hot, investors learned this week, but inflation is hotter than anyone would like. Just how much?
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The Big Squeeze: EM Mega Caps Up, Breadth Down
Emerging markets equity returns have been driven by extreme mega-cap concentration, with index breadth collapsing to historic lows and masking weakness across much of the opportunity set. This concentration has distorted relative results for active managers, particularly those constrained by diversification rules or broad benchmarks, as small-cap underperformance and index construction limit flexibility.
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Dallas Fed energy survey says oil and gas production was little changed in Q4
Oil and gas activity in the key producing states of Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico edged lower in the fourth quarter, as executives there expressed concern about weak oil prices that are making some wells noneconomic and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, according to a survey released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Wednesday.
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Teneo CEO Paul Keary: CEOs have ‘had to become disruption ninjas'
Teneo CEO Paul Keary joins ‘Money Movers' to discuss an uptick in global M&A, continued AI spending, and more.
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Tech Sell-Off Adds Pressure to MU Earnings, Jobs Show Case for Two 2026 Rate Cuts
Joe Mazzola of @CharlesSchwab has his eyes on the tech trade, noting Micron's (MU) earnings as a potential catalyst after failing to catch a bid from Oracle (ORCL) and Broadcom's (AVGO) reports. He adds that markets are "trying to figure out what it wants to do" as the SPX hovers at the 50-day SMA.
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The Safe Asset Squeeze Is Coming, And It Could Push Money Toward Equities
I strongly believe that the ongoing Fed reserve management buying of ≤3-year treasuries (with no end date) will compress short yields, shrink safe supply, and push portfolios toward equities into 2026. Powell framed this decision as implementation, not a restart of QE.
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Forget Valuation. This Is the Big Question Ahead of a SpaceX IPO.
If SpaceX goes public in 2026., what should the stock symbol be?
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His ‘elaborate scheme' roiled credit markets. Now Tricolor CEO Daniel Chu is charged with fraud.
“Fraud became an integral component of Tricolor's business strategy,” U.S. prosecutors said.
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EU rules out UK exemption from carbon border levy until markets link
The European Union will not exempt Britain from its CO2 emissions fee on imported goods until the two sides link their carbon markets, the bloc's climate chief said on Wednesday.
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Fed's Waller says he 'absolutely' would defend US central bank's independence
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, who is on the short list to succeed Fed Chair Jerome Powell next year, said on Wednesday he would "absolutely" defend the central bank's independence if it were challenged by a U.S. president.
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