Today: 8 February 2026
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Khadija Saeed

A dedicated markets reporter, she covers stocks, macroeconomics, and major business developments with a sharp eye for detail and accuracy.

Silver Price Today: Silver Holds Near $79 After Record Breakout as Fed-Cut Bets and Supply Deficits Fuel the Rally

Silver Price Today: Silver Holds Near $79 After Record Breakout as Fed-Cut Bets and Supply Deficits Fuel the Rally

Silver prices hit a record $79.39 per ounce in New York late Saturday after surging more than 9% in thin post-holiday trading. The rally began Friday, with spot silver breaking above $77 for the first time and extending a triple-digit percentage gain for 2025. U.S. stock markets remain closed for the weekend. Precious-metals miners also rose as silver and gold set new highs.
27 December 2025
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Gold Price Today: Bullion Holds Near Record $4,550 After Year-End Rally Driven by Fed Cut Bets and a Softer Dollar

Gold Price Today: Bullion Holds Near Record $4,550 After Year-End Rally Driven by Fed Cut Bets and a Softer Dollar

Spot gold surged 1.2% to $4,531.41 an ounce Friday, touching a record $4,549.71, as thin holiday trading, rate-cut bets, and safe-haven demand fueled gains. Silver jumped 7.5% to near $77.40, also hitting a record, while platinum set a new high. U.S. stocks closed slightly lower in light volume, with the Dow down 0.04%. Gold is up 72% and silver 167% year to date.
27 December 2025
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U.S. Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Near 7,000 as Year-End “Santa Rally” Heads Into the Final Week of 2025; Fed Minutes Loom

U.S. Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Near 7,000 as Year-End “Santa Rally” Heads Into the Final Week of 2025; Fed Minutes Loom

U.S. stock markets are closed Saturday after major indexes ended Friday nearly flat in light post-holiday trading. The S&P 500 slipped 2.11 points to 6,929.94, while the Dow, Nasdaq, and Russell 2000 also edged lower. All four indexes remain near record highs, with the S&P 500 up about 17.8% for the year. Investors are watching for signals on Federal Reserve rate policy as 2025 trading winds down.
27 December 2025
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Jayshree Ullal Tops Hurun India Rich List 2025 for Professional Managers, Surpassing Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai

Jayshree Ullal Tops Hurun India Rich List 2025 for Professional Managers, Surpassing Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai

Jayshree Ullal, CEO and Chairperson of Arista Networks, leads the Hurun India Rich List 2025 for Indian-origin professional managers with an estimated net worth of ₹50,170 crore. Ullal’s wealth, driven by her 2.99% stake in Arista, far exceeds that of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella (₹9,770 crore) and Google’s Sundar Pichai (₹5,810 crore), according to Hurun and NDTV.
27 December 2025
Salesforce Stock (CRM) Weekend Watch: AI Partner Expansion Headlines as Wall Street Nears Year-End Highs

Salesforce Stock (CRM) Weekend Watch: AI Partner Expansion Headlines as Wall Street Nears Year-End Highs

Salesforce closed Friday at $266.08 on light volume, trading between $264.80 and $267.91 during a quiet post-holiday session. ChannelE2E reported partners can now build and distribute custom AI agents on Salesforce’s platform, expanding access beyond direct customers. Major indexes ended marginally lower but near record highs. Markets reopen Monday.
27 December 2025
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SoFi Technologies (SOFI) Stock: Weekend Market Recap, Fresh Headlines, Analyst Targets, and What Investors Should Watch Before Monday

SoFi Technologies (SOFI) Stock: Weekend Market Recap, Fresh Headlines, Analyst Targets, and What Investors Should Watch Before Monday

SoFi Technologies shares closed at $27.07 Friday, down 1.49%, with about 24.7 million shares traded as U.S. markets ended a quiet post-holiday session. The company’s recent launch of SoFiUSD, a fully reserved stablecoin, drew renewed attention, with analysts split on its long-term impact after a strong year for the stock.
27 December 2025
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Procter & Gamble (PG) Stock Holds Near $145 as Markets Close for the Weekend — What Investors Should Watch Before Monday’s Open

Procter & Gamble (PG) Stock Holds Near $145 as Markets Close for the Weekend — What Investors Should Watch Before Monday’s Open

NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2025, 11:26 a.m. ET — Market closed Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) enters the final trading days of 2025 with its share price hovering around the mid-$140s, a level investors have been debating for weeks as Wall Street weighs year-end positioning, interest-rate expectations, and whether defensive consumer staples deserve a bigger role in 2026 portfolios. With U.S. markets closed for the weekend, the most important question for PG shareholders is less about minute-to-minute price action and more about what could move the stock when trading resumes Monday—especially with thin holiday liquidity, looming Federal Reserve signals,
27 December 2025
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PepsiCo Stock (NASDAQ: PEP): Markets Closed for the Weekend as Investors Weigh Year-End Trading and PepsiCo’s 2026 Outlook

PepsiCo Stock (NASDAQ: PEP): Markets Closed for the Weekend as Investors Weigh Year-End Trading and PepsiCo’s 2026 Outlook

PepsiCo shares closed Friday at $143.78, nearly unchanged, after trading in a tight range during a quiet, low-volume session. U.S. markets are now closed for the weekend, with attention shifting to PepsiCo’s early 2026 outlook and its engagement with activist investor Elliott. No major corporate filings have been released in the past 48 hours. The next trading session opens Monday.
27 December 2025
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Visa Stock Today: What Wall Street Is Watching After a Quiet Post‑Christmas Session

Visa Stock Today: What Wall Street Is Watching After a Quiet Post‑Christmas Session

Visa Inc. shares closed at $355.00 Friday, down 0.04%, as U.S. markets paused for the weekend. Recent headlines focused on institutional filings, with Milestone Asset Management raising its stake and DAVENPORT & Co LLC trimming holdings. Visa’s U.S. retail spending rose 4.2% from Nov. 1 to Dec. 21, slightly below forecasts, according to Reuters. Trading volume remained light heading into the final week of 2025.
27 December 2025
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Coupang (CPNG) Stock Rebounds After Data Breach Update: Key News, Analyst Forecasts, and What to Watch Before Monday’s Open

Coupang (CPNG) Stock Rebounds After Data Breach Update: Key News, Analyst Forecasts, and What to Watch Before Monday’s Open

Coupang shares closed at $24.27 Friday, up 6.45%, after the company said a former employee was behind a South Korean data breach affecting about 3,000 accounts, with no evidence of data transfer. South Korean regulators said the incident remains under investigation and have not confirmed Coupang’s account. U.S. markets were closed Saturday; trading resumes Monday.
27 December 2025
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GE Vernova Stock (GEV) Weekend Outlook: Data-Center Turbine Demand in Focus, New Wind Deal, and Analyst Targets Ahead of Monday’s Open

GE Vernova Stock (GEV) Weekend Outlook: Data-Center Turbine Demand in Focus, New Wind Deal, and Analyst Targets Ahead of Monday’s Open

GE Vernova shares closed Friday at $663.46, down 0.58%, as investors weighed rising demand for its aeroderivative turbines from data centers against long equipment lead times. The company is supplying turbines for a major Texas data center project backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. Reuters highlighted turbine delivery bottlenecks that could stretch to eight years. Markets reopen Monday.
27 December 2025
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Warner Bros. Discovery Stock (WBD) Weekend Update: Deal-Arbitrage Tension Builds Ahead of Monday’s Open

Warner Bros. Discovery Stock (WBD) Weekend Update: Deal-Arbitrage Tension Builds Ahead of Monday’s Open

Warner Bros. Discovery shares closed at $28.80 Friday, down 1.4%, as investors weighed a $27.75-per-share Netflix takeover deal against a $30 all-cash offer from Paramount Skydance, now backed by a $40.4 billion personal guarantee from Larry Ellison. Paramount extended its tender offer to Jan. 21, 2026, with 397,252 shares tendered as of Dec. 19.
27 December 2025
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ServiceNow Stock (NOW) Heads Into Monday After TD Cowen Cuts Price Target, While Armis Deal and Year-End Trading Set the Tone

ServiceNow Stock (NOW) Heads Into Monday After TD Cowen Cuts Price Target, While Armis Deal and Year-End Trading Set the Tone

ServiceNow shares closed Friday at $153.89, up 0.85% in light post-holiday trading, with after-hours quotes near $153. The stock remains down about 28% year-to-date on a split-adjusted basis. TD Cowen cut its price target to $230 from $250 but kept a Buy rating, citing concerns over ServiceNow’s planned Armis acquisition. Markets were quiet ahead of the final trading days of 2025.
27 December 2025
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IREN Stock News & Forecast: IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) Weekend Preview After Friday’s Drop as AI Cloud Expansion Faces a Valuation Test

IREN Stock News & Forecast: IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) Weekend Preview After Friday’s Drop as AI Cloud Expansion Faces a Valuation Test

IREN Limited shares closed Friday at $40.30, down 4%, after trading between $39.53 and $42.80. Analyst reports highlighted new AI cloud clients and record revenue, but flagged execution and financing risks. The stock saw modestly lower after-hours trading. No major company announcements were issued in the past two days.
27 December 2025
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BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Stock: Ethereum Staking Headlines, Analyst Targets, and What to Watch Before Monday’s Open

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Stock: Ethereum Staking Headlines, Analyst Targets, and What to Watch Before Monday’s Open

BitMine Immersion Technologies closed Friday at $28.31, down 3.6%, after confirming it began staking Ether, sending 74,880 ETH (about $219 million) to Ethereum’s proof-of-stake contract. The company reported holding 4.07 million ETH and $1 billion in cash as of Dec. 21. Trading volume reached 32.7 million shares. Investors are watching support levels after a recent pullback.
27 December 2025
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Stock Market Today

Renesas stock price jumps again as $3 billion SiTime deal keeps traders hooked on 6723

Renesas stock price jumps again as $3 billion SiTime deal keeps traders hooked on 6723

8 February 2026
TOKYO, Feb 8, 2026, 10:10 JST — Market closed. Renesas Electronics shares ended Friday up 6.9% at 2,957.5 yen, extending a two-session rally that left the stock about 15% higher heading into the weekend. (Investing.com) With Tokyo shut on Sunday, the near-term question is simple: does that bounce hold when trading resumes on Monday, or does it fade once the headlines thin out? It matters now because Renesas sits deep in automotive and industrial supply chains, and its fresh guidance lands as investors try to map where chip demand is firming — and where it is still stuck. A notice
Moore Threads (688795) share price in focus after Pony.ai tie-up as China market reopens

Moore Threads (688795) share price in focus after Pony.ai tie-up as China market reopens

8 February 2026
Moore Threads’ Shanghai-listed shares closed up 0.45% at 536.99 yuan on Feb. 6 after announcing a strategic cooperation with Pony.ai on autonomous driving compute. Pony.ai plans to use Moore Threads’ MTT S5000 cards for L4 system training and targets over 3,000 Robotaxis by end-2026. Investors await further deal details as the market reopens Monday.
NXP stock heads into Monday after $3 billion credit line refresh — what to watch for NXPI

NXP stock heads into Monday after $3 billion credit line refresh — what to watch for NXPI

8 February 2026
NXP Semiconductors shares closed up 1% at $224.32 Friday after subsidiaries amended a $3 billion revolving credit deal with Barclays, maturing in 2031. The PHLX semiconductor index surged 5.7% as chip stocks rallied on AI spending signals from Amazon and Alphabet. NXP’s gain lagged peers like Monolithic Power, which rose 6.4%. Investors await U.S. jobs and inflation data next week.
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