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Market Briefing
December 16, 2025

 

Good morning.

The Fast Five → Wall Street gears up for 24/7 trading, Ford to take $19.5B hit in EV pivot, Tesla stock closes at 2025 high, PayPal applies to become a bank, and Trump's article of faith: economy will soar in '26…

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Calendar: (*Shutdown may affect key data. All times ET) - Full Calendar »

  • Today:
    Non-Farm Employment, 8:30A
    Retail Sales, 8:30A
    Unemployment Rate, 8:30A

  • Tomorrow:
    None watched

Your 5-minute briefing for Tuesday, Dec 16:

BEFORE THE OPEN

As of market close 12/15/2025.

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 44.59% for Week of DEC 11 2025

Previous week: 44.29%

Market Wrap:

  • Futures flat ahead of November jobs report

  • Dow -0.04%, S&P -0.1%, Nasdaq -0.2%

  • Indexes closed lower Monday on AI profit-taking

  • Broadcom -5.6%, ServiceNow -11.5%, Oracle -2.7%

  • Rotation into health care, utilities, cyclicals

  • Payrolls, retail sales and CPI ahead this week

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

How to Claim Your Stake in SpaceX with $500

Every week Elon Musk is sending about 60 more satellites into orbit.

Tech legend Jeff Brown believes he’s building what will be the world’s first global communications carrier.

He predicts this will be Elon’s next trillion-dollar business.

And when it goes public, you could cash out with the biggest payout of your life.

- a message from Brownstone Research -

HEADLINES

Nasdaq President Tal Cohen said in a blog post that his firm could soon offer trading 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday, on its main stock exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Larger EVs will be cancelled in favor of smaller EVS, hybrids, and extended-range EVs.

  • Tech leads decline to kick off big data week (more)

  • Trump's article of faith: Economy will soar in '26 (more)

  • New Trump tariffs collection hits $200B (more)

  • Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI (more)

  • Trump'strongly' considering reclassifying pot via exec order (more)

  • High cost of goods causing consumers to spend less for the holidays (more)

  • Debt worries continue to weigh on AI-related stocks (more)

  • Dollar on defensive as traders eye delayed US jobs data (more)

  • Oil moves lower on Ukraine talks, weak China data (more)

  • Tesla closes at 2025 high after Musk confirms Robotaxi tests underway (more)

  • Prediction markets will see 5-fold growth by 2030, Citizens says (more)

  • PayPal applies to become a bank as US loosens regulatory Rreins (more)

  • Ford to record $19.5B in special charges related to EV pullback (more)

How a Quiet Project Sparked a Gold Rush

It started as a whisper - an obscure technology buried in research labs. Then Sam Altman made his largest personal investment. Bill Gates doubled down. Even the White House stepped in.

And now a January 1st deadline could flip the switch. The story is bigger than anyone realizes.

- a message from Brownstone Research -

DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

  • Adobe agreed to acquire Runway Systems

  • WSP Global acquires TRC Companies in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.3B

  • Pinterest agreed to acquire tvScientific

  • Via agreed to acquire Downtowner

  • Sobi agreed to acquire Arthrosi Therapeutics

  • Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing to merge, creating a transatlantic law firm with more than 1,200 lawyers

VC

  • Chai Discovery, an AI company focused on predicting molecular interactions, raised $130M in Series B funding

  • Octane, a fintech company focused on recreational vehicle financing, raised $100M in Series F funding

  • PolyAI, a company specializing in enterprise conversational AI, raised $86M in Series D funding

  • Alphyn Biologics, a clinical-stage dermatology company, raised $25M in Series B funding

  • Auxira Health, a virtual cardiology company, raised $7.8M in Seed funding

CRYPTO

  • Bitcoin resumes slide as 'sell the rip' pervades (more)

  • Strategy buys almost $1 billion in Bitcoin again in past weeks (more)

  • JPMorgan debuts first money market fund tokenized on Ethereum (more)

BULLISH BITES

👋  How tech’s biggest companies are offloading the risks of the AI boom.

🌊 How a push for more IPOs fueled a wave of scams.

🎲 New York City is getting its first 3 Las Vegas-style casinos.

🧸 AI toys offer emotional support to consumers.

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