Today: 7 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.

Lowe’s stock closes lower as Wall Street slips; housing data and Fed minutes in focus

Lowe’s stock closes lower as Wall Street slips; housing data and Fed minutes in focus

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 10:26 PM ET — Market closed. Lowe’s Companies Inc shares finished Monday down 0.14% at $243.48. The stock was last indicated at $243.83 in after-hours trading. Yahoo Finance The move kept Lowe’s near a level investors have treated as a referendum on the U.S. housing cycle and interest-rate direction. Home-improvement spending can firm when mortgage rates ease and housing turnover rises, but it tends to stall when homeowners delay big projects. Housing data delivered a fresh data point late in the session. Contracts to buy existing homes — known as pending home sales, a gauge
30 December 2025
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Boston Scientific (BSX) stock slips in year-end pullback; February earnings loom

Boston Scientific (BSX) stock slips in year-end pullback; February earnings loom

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 10:27 PM ET — Market closed Boston Scientific shares closed down 0.3% at $95.76 on Monday. The stock traded between $95.53 and $96.64, with about 5.4 million shares changing hands. StockAnalysis The modest move still matters now because thin year-end liquidity can magnify small shifts in positioning. For large-cap healthcare names like Boston Scientific, traders are also watching whether defensive sectors can stay steady as leadership narrows in the final stretch of 2025. Wall Street’s main indexes finished lower, with the Dow down 0.51%, the S&P 500 off 0.35% and the Nasdaq down 0.50%, according
30 December 2025
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Gilead stock nudges up after Bernstein flags limited Medicaid pricing hit

Gilead stock nudges up after Bernstein flags limited Medicaid pricing hit

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 22:17 ET — Market closed Gilead Sciences (GILD.O) shares were last up 0.15% at $124.91 on Monday, as investors weighed an analyst note that argued new Medicaid drug-pricing rules would have a limited financial impact on the company’s HIV franchise. Investing.com The call matters now because drugmakers and investors are still parsing a Trump administration pricing push that targets Medicaid and aims to bring U.S. medicine prices closer to those in other wealthy countries. Reuters For Gilead, the focus has been on whether “most-favored-nation” pricing — a policy that effectively ties prices to lower international
30 December 2025
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Danaher stock beats Wall Street dip as investors eye Fed minutes and Jan. 28 earnings

Danaher stock beats Wall Street dip as investors eye Fed minutes and Jan. 28 earnings

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 22:23 ET — Market closed Danaher Corp shares were last up about 0.1% at $230.63 on Monday, after trading between $229.26 and $231.77 during the session. The muted move still mattered for Danaher investors because the stock held up in a market that turned lower as the year winds down and liquidity thins, a setup that can amplify sector rotations. It also comes ahead of a key macro catalyst: the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes, due Tuesday, with traders pricing in additional rate cuts in 2026 as the U.S. dollar weakens into year-end. reuters.com U.S.
30 December 2025
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Amgen stock slips to $330 as year-end pullback hits Wall Street; Fed minutes and MariTide updates in focus

Amgen stock slips to $330 as year-end pullback hits Wall Street; Fed minutes and MariTide updates in focus

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 22:14 ET — Market closed Amgen shares fell 1% on Monday, ending the session down $3.30 at $329.63. StockAnalysis The decline matters now because traders are heading into the final sessions of the year with U.S. indexes near record territory and liquidity thinner than usual. That backdrop can amplify moves in large-cap healthcare stocks even without a company-specific trigger. Reuters Wall Street’s main indexes closed lower, led by a retreat in heavyweight technology names, Reuters reported. “It’ll turn out to be a buying opportunity,” said Hank Smith, director and head of investment strategy at Haverford
30 December 2025
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BlackRock stock today: BLK barely higher as Wall Street slips; Fed minutes and data loom

BlackRock stock today: BLK barely higher as Wall Street slips; Fed minutes and data loom

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 22:07 ET — Market closed BlackRock Inc shares edged up on Monday, ending nearly flat at $1,088.40 as Wall Street turned lower in holiday-thinned trading. Reuters For BlackRock, modest moves in markets matter because they feed directly into assets under management (AUM) — the pool of client money it charges fees on. The firm oversees more than $13 trillion, Reuters has reported. Reuters That sensitivity is in sharper focus into year-end, as traders re-price the interest-rate outlook ahead of the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes due on Tuesday. Shifts in rate expectations can swing risk
30 December 2025
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Qualcomm stock slips as chip sector cools; QCOM investors eye Feb. 4 earnings

Qualcomm stock slips as chip sector cools; QCOM investors eye Feb. 4 earnings

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 22:10 ET — Market closed QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) shares fell 0.8% to close at $173.43 on Monday, after trading between $175.19 and $172.79. StockAnalysis The move matters because chip stocks often magnify shifts in risk appetite, and investors have been quick to adjust exposure into the final sessions of the year. Qualcomm is closely tracked as a bellwether for high-end smartphones and related wireless demand. U.S. stocks ended lower on Monday, with the Nasdaq down 0.5% and the S&P 500 off 0.35%, while Treasury yields eased as investors recalibrated expectations for Federal Reserve rate
30 December 2025
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Lockheed pitches made-in-India C-130J Super Hercules line as IAF weighs 80-plane transport buy

Lockheed pitches made-in-India C-130J Super Hercules line as IAF weighs 80-plane transport buy

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 21:53 ET Lockheed Martin has offered to set up a C-130J Super Hercules final-assembly line in India as the Indian Air Force (IAF) moves toward buying up to 80 military transport aircraft, a PTI report carried by local media said. mint The pitch lands as India tries to modernise the air force’s transport fleet, a workhorse capability used to move troops, vehicles and relief supplies across long distances. It also underscores New Delhi’s push to tie major defence buys to local manufacturing, forcing overseas contractors to show how much work they will shift to India.
30 December 2025
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Amphenol stock slips in year-end tech pullback; Fed minutes and housing data loom

Amphenol stock slips in year-end tech pullback; Fed minutes and housing data loom

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 9:54 PM ET — Market closed Amphenol Corp shares fell 0.4% to end at $136.90 on Monday, as heavyweight technology names retreated and pulled the broader market lower in the final week of 2025. StockAnalysis+1 The move matters now because Amphenol sits at the intersection of industrial and tech spending: it sells connectors, sensors and high-speed cables used in data communications and other end markets that often trade with investor sentiment toward big tech and AI-linked hardware demand. Reuters With trading conditions typically thinner into year-end, swings tied to positioning can have an outsized impact
30 December 2025
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AMAT stock ends higher in thin year-end trade as tech slips — what investors are watching next

AMAT stock ends higher in thin year-end trade as tech slips — what investors are watching next

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 10:00 PM ET — Market closed Applied Materials shares ended Monday up 0.44% at $263.05, near the top of their 52-week range, after a session that saw the broader market retreat from recent highs. The stock traded between $260.00 and $264.65 on the day. Google The chip-equipment maker is closely watched because its orders tend to track wafer fab equipment spending — the big-ticket tools chipmakers buy to manufacture semiconductors. With 2025 winding down, traders have been calibrating expectations for 2026 capital spending as AI-linked demand lifts parts of the supply chain, while tighter export
30 December 2025
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S&P Global stock rises as tech drags Wall Street; SPGI traders eye Fed minutes, February outlook

S&P Global stock rises as tech drags Wall Street; SPGI traders eye Fed minutes, February outlook

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 21:52 ET — Market closed S&P Global Inc. shares ended slightly higher on Monday, closing up about 0.1% at $530.10. The stock traded between $528.99 and $532.42, with roughly 1.22 million shares changing hands. Yahoo Finance The financial-data and credit-ratings firm sits close to two pressure points investors are recalibrating into year-end: the path of U.S. interest rates and the appetite for new borrowing in 2026. Those matter because more debt issuance — when companies sell new bonds — typically means more ratings work and fees, while volatile markets can lift demand for data and
30 December 2025
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McDonald’s stock slips into the close as year-end trading turns choppy — what investors watch next for MCD

McDonald’s stock slips into the close as year-end trading turns choppy — what investors watch next for MCD

NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 21:56 ET — Market closed McDonald’s shares ended down 0.7% at $308.53 on Monday, extending a soft start to the final week of the year for the Dow component. The decline matters now because year-end positioning and thin liquidity can amplify routine moves in large, widely held names, even without fresh company-specific news. Reuters Markets are also heading into a holiday-shortened stretch, with just two U.S. trading days left before the year ends and markets closed Thursday for New Year’s Day. AP News Wall Street’s main indexes finished lower, with heavyweight tech and AI-linked stocks
30 December 2025
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Stock Market Today

LSEG share price drops 4% in early London trade as AI fears linger and buyback rolls on

LSEG share price: London Stock Exchange Group stock braces for Monday after AI jitters and buyback move

7 February 2026
London, Feb 7, 2026, 08:20 GMT — Market closed. London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG.L) shares ended Friday at 7,502 pence, down about 1.1% on the day, with London markets shut for the weekend and set to reopen on Monday. (MarketWatch) The stock has been caught in a wider repricing of software, data and analytics names as investors question which business models benefit from the next wave of AI — and which get squeezed. “It’s a de-risking trade,” Andrew Wells, chief investment officer at SanJac Alpha, said, as he argued the AI build-out had become “too pricey.” (Reuters) LSEG also
GSK share price set for Monday watch after EU clears Nucala COPD use

GSK share price set for Monday watch after EU clears Nucala COPD use

7 February 2026
GSK shares closed Friday up 0.83% at a 52-week high after the EU approved Nucala for certain uncontrolled COPD patients. Insider filings showed chairman Jonathan Symonds bought 2,500 shares while executive David Redfern sold 100,000. The FTSE 100 rose 0.6%. Broker ratings on GSK remained mixed.
Aye Finance IPO: Rs 454-crore anchor haul follows valuation cut below last round

Aye Finance IPO: Rs 454-crore anchor haul follows valuation cut below last round

7 February 2026
Aye Finance raised Rs 454.5 crore from 19 anchor investors ahead of its Feb 9 IPO, pricing shares at the top of a Rs 122–129 range. The company’s profit fell 40% to Rs 64.3 crore in the six months to September as bad loans rose to 4.85%. The IPO values Aye at about Rs 3,200 crore, below its last private round. Major investors include Nippon Life India and Goldman Sachs funds.
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