BEFORE THE OPEN

Pre-Market:

US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑32.58% for Week of NOV 20 2025

Market Wrap:

• Futures flat to start December; Dow -18.

• Indexes surged last week: S&P +3.7%, Nasdaq +4.9%, Dow +3.2%.

• December seasonality strong: S&P averages +1% historically.

• November: S&P/Dow flat; Nasdaq -1.5% after AI valuation fears.

• Nasdaq had been down nearly 8% mid-month before rebounding.

• Market breadth improved late November as rate-cut odds rose.

• Fundstrat’s Newton sees setup for positive December.

EARNINGS

Here’s what we’re watching this week:

• TUE: American Eagle $AEO ( ▲ 0.17% ), CrowdStrike $CRWD ( ▲ 0.37% )

• WED: *Dollar Tree $DLTR ( ▲ 3.86% ), Five Below $FIVE ( ▲ 4.11% ), *Macy's $M ( ▲ 2.64% )

  • Salesforce $CRM ( ▲ 3.66% ) - EPS of $2.86 on $10.27B revenue

• THU: *Kroger $KR ( ▲ 0.24% ), Ulta Beauty $ULTA ( ▲ 10.8% )

  • *Dollar General $DG ( ▲ 2.59% ) - EPS of $.93 on $10.6B revenue

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A MESSAGE FROM INVESTORPLACE DIGEST

CYBER MONDAY STOCK ALERT
Futurist Eric Fry declares this year's "Season of Surge"
— and the timing couldn't be more perfect.

One company to replace Amazon... another to rival Tesla... and a third to upset Nvidia.

These little-known stocks are poised to overtake the three reigning tech darlings in a move that could completely reorder the top dogs of the stock market.

And for Cyber Monday, Eric Fry is giving away the names, tickers, and full analysis in a first-ever free broadcast — an exclusive opportunity typically locked behind a paywall.

This Cyber Monday event won't be available for long.

Watch Now before it's gone.

- a message from InvestorPlace Digest -

HEADLINES

'I Don't Know if We'll Get that Santa Rally'

Wall Street's 2026 Forecasts are Rolling In—Some See S&P Hitting 8,000

• Nasdaq notches first monthly loss since March as Dow, S&P make gains (more)

• Trump says he has made his choice to lead the Fed (more)

• Markets defy CME, AI stress in everything rally (more)

• Signs point to a more stable December ahead for stocks (more)

• Options market grapples with ‘concentration risk’ in clearing (more)

• To bond investors, some emerging markets look safer than the US (more)

• Spot silver hits fresh record after surpassing October peak (more)

• Oil climbs after OPEC+ reiterates pause with focus on Venezuela (more)

• SEC investigates Jefferies over First Brands collapse (more)

• Huge demand from AI data centers is crushing US aluminum (more)

• Sergey Brin gifts $1.1 bln in Alphabet stock after AI rally (more)

• Trump frees former GPB Capital CEO after Biden era Ponzi sentence (more)

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DEALFLOW

M+A | Investments

• Robinhood Markets and Susquehanna Int’l Group agreed to take over exchange LedgerX

• Warburg Pincus agreed to acquire a majority stake in Raptor Technologies

• Indicio, a digital-identity infrastructure provider, received an investment from NEC X

VC

• Harmonic, an AI lab developing a mathematical superintelligence, raised $120M in Series C funding

• Evidium, a healthcare AI company, raised $22M in funding

• Codenotary Inc., an AI cybersecurity and software-supply chain trust company, raised $16.5M in financing

• CoPlane, an AI-native software to streamline the back office, raised $14M in Seed funding

• Zetagen Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharma company, closed over $12M in Series B1 funding

• Crux, a benefits platform for employers and pharma partners, raised $6.5M in Pre-Seed funding

• Global Work AI, an AI-native job-search platform for job seekers, raised $2.4M in funding

• The Intelligent Search Company, a tech company developing an intelligent retrieval engine, raised $2.1M in Pre-Seed funding

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin plunges to below $88k in risk-off start to December (more)

• 'We wear your loathing with pride': Tether's downgrade at S&P sparks online battle (more)

• Michael Saylor Sunday change-up suggests new announcement coming Monday (more)

• CoinShares pulls plug on select crypto ETFs ahead of US listing (more)

BULLISH BITES

🚨 The AI Chip Trade is OUT. This is in… *

🛍 How Black Friday became a retail letdown.

🏆 Who deserves to win Company of the Year?

📖 ‘Untold story’ of Charlie Munger’s last years.

🏈 College football's $150 million coaching meltdown.

DAILY SHARES

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