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Good morning.
Huge week ahead as markets barrel into Christmas this Thursday.
A Santa Claus Rally might be back on the menu
Oracle was down 20%, now up 8%, and Wells Fargo says 50% upside?
Gold & silver both crushed brand-new all-time highs
Remember this: America is mid-revolution. Our thesis is that nothing will be the same after the next 5-10 years of AI development. We think people who own assets will win in the end.
Let’s take a look at today’s market.
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📰 Market Headlines
Stocks hovered near record highs as investors eyed a potential Santa rally.
The Nasdaq rose 0.4% for the week, the Dow slipped 0.7%, and the S&P 500 was flat. All three sat within 3% of all-time highs.
Also, futures are up this morning at the start of a short week of trading ahead of Christmas.
Oracle stock jumped about 8% after reports confirmed the Larry-Ellison-founded company will lead a U.S. consortium buying TikTok from ByteDance. Nvidia and Micron gained as AI chip demand stayed strong and Washington reviewed export rules for advanced chips to China.
ORCL fell 20% between December 10th and 17th
Wells Fargo sees the ORCL drawdown as an opportunity to buy the dip, predicting nearly 50% upside from its recent lows.
Paramount is now pushing its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. with guaranteed backing from Larry Ellison himself. Ellison is responsible for $40.4 billion in the $108 billion deal. Last week, Warner Bros. had concerns about Ellison’s financial backing, and that was apparently a large reason why it didn’t accept Paramount’s offer initially. We’ll keep you posted on how things shape up from here.
Key economic data rundown:
Consumer sentiment hit 52.9%, which is 2% higher than it was last month but 30% lower than it was in December of last year.
Inflation came in cool last week, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) coming in at 2.7% instead of the expected 3.1%Today: Consumer PCE inflation data
Fed official Beth Hammack told the Wall Street Journal she sees no need to adjust rates “for months,” warning inflation remains understated and favoring a slightly tighter stance until spring.
Waymo paused its robotaxi service in San Francisco after a citywide blackout left vehicles stalled in traffic. About 130,000 customers lost power Saturday, and 21,000 were still without electricity Sunday morning.
Notably, Tesla said its supervised ride-hailing service was unaffected.
Gold and silver hit new highs as traders rebalance their portfolios at the end of the year. The rise in their prices might indicate that traders still see the precious metals as a strong hedge against inflation, even after their record growth.
Gold: $4,445.8 per ounce
Silver: $68.98 per ounce
New data coming this week:
Monday: October PCE inflation data
Tuesday: US Q3 2025 GDP data, December CB Consumer Confidence data, October new home sales data
Wednesday: October Durable Goods Orders data
Thursday: Merry Christmas! Markets closed
😱 Fear & Greed Index
🤖 AI/Future/Tech News
Is the Xbox dead? With falling sales, more layoffs, and price hikes, it’s not looking good for Microsoft’s gaming division.
It’s as if the company has “no desire or literally can’t ship hardware anymore,” said Laura Fryer, former executive producer at Microsoft Game Studios (CNBC).
UPS deployed a herd of robots using machine learning to detect fraudulent product returns.
🪙 Crypto
Bitcoin broke $90,000 this morning for the first time in seven days. AltIndex’s Crypto Fear & Greed indicator is at 49, which is neutral.
A crypto trader lost $50 million in an address poisoning attack after sending USDT to a spoofed wallet.
🚨 Trending on Reddit
eBay chatter surged 4050% across investing threads in the past 24 hours.
AMD mentions climbed 350%, signaling renewed focus on the chipmaker as traders weigh its position in the AI hardware race.
🤫 Insider Trading
🥈 Alternative Asset of the Day: Silver
❓Market Trivia Corner
Which of these stocks performed the worst in 2025?
🎤️ What you said last time
🧠 The Missing (Market) Links
The Epstein files were partially released last Friday in the form of “The Epstein Library,” including photos of Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The DOJ removed and then restored a picture of Trump to the Library, claiming that the image was initially removed because of “concerns about women in the photo” (CNBC).
Elon Musk became the first person with a net worth of $749 billion this weekend.
Kalshi odds are at 78% for Elon to become the world’s first trillionaire.
The EU rolled back its 2035 EV ban, allowing 10% of new cars to be hybrids if automakers bought carbon offsets.
📜 Quote of the Day
Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.
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