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Nia Warfield, Luke Kawa

S&P 500 goes nowhere in listless trading day

A relatively calm day of trading saw the S&P 500 up no more than 0.3% and down not even as much as 0.1% over the course of the session, with the benchmark index giving up modest gains in the last couple hours of trading to finish flat. The 40-basis-point difference between the day’s high and low was its slimmest range since Valentine’s Day, and total volumes across US exchanges were the lowest in roughly a month.

The Nasdaq 100 managed a 0.3% gain while the Russell 2000 dipped 0.2%.

Most S&P 500 sector ETFs declined, with energy and utilities faring the worst. Communication services was the best-performing pocket of the market on the day.

Dollar Tree was at the bottom of the S&P 500 leaderboard after the discount retailer beat Q1 estimates but warned that tariffs could slash its profit in half this quarter. The day’s gains were led by On Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors, up 6.1% and 5.6%, respectively, as the chip sector’s broader rally rolls on. Meanwhile…

CrowdStrike fell 5.8% after the cybersecurity company issued weaker-than-expected revenue guidance for the current quarter, as it continues to deal with fallout from its July IT outage. 

Tesla shares dipped nearly 3.6% after its EV sales dipped in Europe, including in Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom — Tesla’s biggest market on the continent.

Reddit shares popped 6.6% after the social media platform filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging it stole personal user data to train its language learning models.

Meta shares jumped 3.2% amid reports that the company is in talks with Hollywood giants, including Disney and film studio A24, to make content for its newest VR headset.

Airbus ADRs climbed 2.1% on reports that China is narrowing in on a massive deal with the European plane maker that could result in 200 to 500 new aircraft orders.

Chinese firm Webus, which specializes in “customizable chauffeur services worldwide,” soared nearly 15% after a filing showed the company is planning to raise $300 million for its XRP treasury.

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Toby Bochan
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Markets close out 2025’s last full week of trading on a cheerful note

Stocks rallied for the second day in a row, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 all closing higher, giving traders the early Christmas gift they desired.

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Nate Becker

Health insurance stocks lose steam as Trump says he’ll lobby insurers for lower prices

Shares of health insurance companies dropped Friday afternoon, as President Trump said he would ask insurers to meet with him in the coming weeks to seek lower prices.

Stocks including Humana, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, CVS Health, and Elevance Health all either pared gains or went further into the red after Trump’s remarks, which came at the end of a press event to announce pricing deals with nine drugmakers.

“I’m going to call a meeting of the big insurance companies that have gotten so rich,” Trump said, noting that he would lobby them for lower prices.

“I would say that maybe with one talk, they would be willing to cut their prices by 50, 60, or 70%. They’ve made a fortune.”

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Max Knoblauch

Rivian’s surge continues as stock reaches highest level since December 2023 on analyst upgrades

Shares of EV maker Rivian are on pace to close up double digits for the second day in a row on Friday as bullish investors pour into the stock following analyst upgrades.

Rivian shares were up more than 10% on Friday afternoon, with the stock climbing to its highest level since December 2023.

Webush’s Dan Ives boosted his Rivian price target by 56% to $25 in a note on Friday morning. The analyst wrote that 2026 is a “prove-me” year for the automaker, with its lower-cost R2 model set to launch in the first half.

Ives’s note follows a separate optimistic bit of analysis from Baird, which also boosted its Rivian price target to $25 in a note on Thursday.

If today's gains hold, Friday will mark the third day of double-digit gains for Rivian in the past six trading days. An “AI Day” event that saw the automaker detail autonomous updates and tease a robotaxi plan started the recent run.

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Luke Kawa

The neoclouds are shooting back up into the stratosphere

Investors’ faith in tech CEOs’ pursuit of digital God has seemingly been restored for now, sparking an intense rally in the speculative AI players that had been in full-on meltdown mode over concerns that the boom had passed its best-before date.

The data center companies colloquially known as the “neoclouds” — CoreWeave, Nebius, IREN, and Cipher Mining — are up more than double digits over the past two sessions, as of 10:40 a.m. ET.

The past 48 hours have brought a steady drumbeat of positive news for the AI theme.

CoreWeave received a vote of confidence from Wall Street as Citi resumed coverage with a buy rating and price target of $135. Oracle, the epicenter of AI credit concerns, has seen a reversal in its fortunes as it nears an acquisition of TikTok’s US operations. And OpenAI’s fundraising efforts appear be going so well that its reported valuation has gone up in back-to-back days.

Before that, Micron’s earnings reaffirmed the intense demand for AI compute, which continues to outstrip supply — a positive sign for the neoclouds. The macro backdrop is also turning perhaps a bit more in favor of lower interest rates, as CPI inflation came in well below expectations.

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