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Shan Ahmed Khan

As a journalist focused on finance and the stock market, he delivers fast, reliable, and easy-to-understand coverage of market news.

Vodafone shares near £1 as buyback filing hits and valuation debate sharpens

Vodafone shares near £1 as buyback filing hits and valuation debate sharpens

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 03:53 ET Vodafone shares hovered just below the £1 level on Wednesday, trading at about 99.22 pence in London, as the telecoms group continued a steady run of share buybacks into year-end. (https://www.investing.com/equities/vodafone-historical-data) The move matters because the one-pound mark is a psychological threshold for retail and institutional investors in the U.K., where Vodafone is a heavyweight in the FTSE 100. It also comes as trading volumes thin out around the holidays, making price levels and corporate buying programmes more visible in daily market moves. In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, Vodafone said it repurchased
31 December 2025
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New Year’s supermarket opening times UK: Tesco and Asda cut hours as Aldi shuts Jan. 1

New Year’s supermarket opening times UK: Tesco and Asda cut hours as Aldi shuts Jan. 1

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 03:53 ET Britain’s Aldi will close its UK stores on New Year’s Day, according to the discounter’s holiday opening hours. ALDI The timing matters because Wednesday is New Year’s Eve, a peak day for last-minute grocery runs ahead of celebrations. New Year’s Day is a UK bank holiday, and shorter trading windows can leave fewer options for shoppers. Retailers are publishing holiday schedules branch by branch, and hours can differ sharply between big supermarkets and smaller convenience formats. Most chains are directing customers to check store locators for specific sites before travelling. In London, local
31 December 2025
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AI stocks today: Nvidia’s China H200 chip rush puts chipmakers in focus before New Year trade

AI stocks today: Nvidia’s China H200 chip rush puts chipmakers in focus before New Year trade

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 03:59 ET — Market closed Nvidia (NVDA.O) has approached contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) to ramp output of its H200 graphics processing units — chips used to train and run artificial-intelligence models — as demand from Chinese tech firms jumps, sources told Reuters. Chinese companies have ordered more than 2 million H200 chips for 2026, far above the roughly 700,000 units Nvidia holds in inventory, the people said. TSMC is expected to begin work on expanded output in the second quarter of 2026, and the plan depends on whether Beijing clears H200 imports
31 December 2025
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EQT stock wobbles premarket as U.S. natural gas futures slide after weather-driven rally

EQT stock wobbles premarket as U.S. natural gas futures slide after weather-driven rally

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 04:06 ET — Premarket EQT Corp shares were last down about 0.5% in extended trading early Wednesday, tracking a pullback in U.S. natural gas futures. Investing.com+1 The move matters because producers’ revenue is tied to natural gas prices, which can swing sharply in winter as heating demand rises and falls with the weather. This week’s volatility has been amplified by strong liquefied natural gas (LNG) export demand — LNG is natural gas cooled into a liquid for shipment — which can tighten the domestic market when export plants pull more fuel from U.S. pipelines. hellenicshippingnews.com
31 December 2025
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XRP price today: Token holds near $1.87 as U.S. XRP ETF inflows extend streak into year-end

XRP price today: Token holds near $1.87 as U.S. XRP ETF inflows extend streak into year-end

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 02:55 ET — Market closed. XRP held near $1.87 early on Wednesday, up about 0.5% from its previous close. Bitcoin rose about 1.3% and ether gained roughly 0.8%, according to market data. The move matters because XRP has struggled to break out of a narrow range even as fresh vehicles have broadened access for traditional investors. ETFs, or exchange-traded funds, trade like stocks and can offer exposure to an asset without requiring investors to hold the underlying token directly. Traders have been leaning on flow data for clues into year-end, when liquidity is thin and
31 December 2025
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Bitcoin price today: BTC steadies near $88,500 as spot ETF inflows rebound into year-end

Bitcoin price today: BTC steadies near $88,500 as spot ETF inflows rebound into year-end

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 03:03 ET — Market closed Bitcoin rose about 1.2% to $88,512 in early trade on Wednesday, holding near the $88,000 level. Ether gained 0.5% to $2,973, while U.S.-listed crypto proxies were mixed, with Coinbase down 0.9%, Strategy up 0.1%, and miners Marathon and Riot down 1.8% and 3.8%; iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) was up about 0.9% in the latest available trade. The move followed a swing back to net inflows for U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) — products that hold bitcoin and trade like stocks — after a run of year-end outflows. Data from
31 December 2025
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Silver price stock today: SLV in focus as spot silver drops 7% from record highs

Silver price stock today: SLV in focus as spot silver drops 7% from record highs

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 02:54 ET — Market closed. Spot silver slid 7.1% to $71.02 an ounce early Wednesday, extending a sharp retreat from Monday’s record $83.62. Reuters The pullback matters now because silver’s outsized 2025 rally has pushed more trading into equity-style vehicles such as silver-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which trade like stocks. Those products reprice quickly when the metal swings. Reuters It is also a year-end tape. Liquidity is thinner, and positioning tends to be crowded after big runs, making price moves look more dramatic than they would in a normal week. Reuters The dollar was part
31 December 2025
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Gold price today dips on year-end profit-taking as dollar firms; $5,000 in view for 2026

Gold price today dips on year-end profit-taking as dollar firms; $5,000 in view for 2026

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 03:47 ET — Market closed Gold prices edged lower on Wednesday as year-end profit-taking and a firmer dollar cooled the latest surge, with spot gold down 0.4% at $4,329.12 an ounce by 2:56 a.m. ET. U.S. gold futures for February fell 1% to $4,340.90, pulling back from Friday’s record $4,549.71 even as bullion remains up more than 60% in 2025; spot silver slid 5.6% to $72.20. “Maybe towards the end of the first quarter, we could see gold test $5,000,” said Ilya Spivak, head of global macro at Tastylive. Reuters The late-year wobble matters because
31 December 2025
Dow Jones today: Fed minutes and thin liquidity set the tone for 2025’s final session

Dow Jones today: Fed minutes and thin liquidity set the tone for 2025’s final session

NEW YORK, Dec 31, 2025, 02:56 ET — Market closed The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended slightly lower on Tuesday as investors digested Federal Reserve meeting minutes and pared exposure to parts of the tech-heavy rally into the year’s final session. The index finished at 48,367.06, down 94.87 points, or 0.20%. Reuters The timing matters. Wednesday is the last U.S. cash equity session of 2025, and trading has been thin, a setup that can amplify swings when big funds rebalance portfolios and traders close books. Reuters A fresh debate is taking shape under the surface: whether 2026 returns broaden beyond
31 December 2025
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Dutch Bros stock slides 3% as coffee-cost worries return — what investors are watching

Dutch Bros stock slides 3% as coffee-cost worries return — what investors are watching

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 15:43 ET — Regular session Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS) shares fell about 3.4% to $62.30 in afternoon trading on Tuesday. The stock has traded between $62.30 and $64.55 after closing at $64.48 on Monday. The move matters for investors because Dutch Bros has been priced as a fast grower, leaving little room for cost surprises as 2025 trading winds down and liquidity thins. A note published earlier on Nasdaq.com said Dutch Bros ended the third quarter with about $706 million of liquidity — cash plus unused borrowing capacity — which can help cushion volatility in
30 December 2025
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Why Qualys stock is sliding today: QLYS lags cybersecurity peers in late-year trade

Why Qualys stock is sliding today: QLYS lags cybersecurity peers in late-year trade

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 15:41 ET — Regular session Qualys Inc shares fell 2.5% to $133.93 in afternoon trading on Tuesday, after dropping as much as 4.2% earlier in the session. The stock closed at $137.34 on Monday. The decline landed as U.S. equities stayed range-bound in holiday-thin conditions, with technology and financial shares among the drags. “It’s just a healthy rebalancing of allocations more so than an emotionally driven sell-off,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide. Reuters That matters for Qualys because lighter year-end liquidity can exaggerate moves in single names, especially in software stocks where
30 December 2025
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Terns Pharmaceuticals stock slides today, testing the $40 level after December share sale

Terns Pharmaceuticals stock slides today, testing the $40 level after December share sale

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 15:30 ET — Regular session. Shares of Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc. fell 2.8% to $40.34 in afternoon trading on Tuesday, after swinging between $39.99 and $41.98. The pullback puts the stock back around $40, the price used in the company’s recent upsized equity offering — a level traders often watch after a big deal resets supply and demand. That matters now because Terns’ December financing and trial update put new attention on how quickly the biotech can turn early leukemia data into larger studies, while also giving it a much longer cash runway. Biotech shares were
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Stock Market Today

Lucid stock jumps 14% as Dow tops 50,000 — what LCID investors watch next week

Lucid stock jumps 14% as Dow tops 50,000 — what LCID investors watch next week

7 February 2026
Lucid Group shares jumped 14% to $10.86 at Friday’s close, recovering from an 8% drop the previous day. The move followed a broad Wall Street rally that lifted high-volatility stocks. Lucid reported fourth-quarter deliveries of 5,345 vehicles and full-year deliveries of 15,841. Investors await Lucid’s Feb. 24 results for updates on cash and demand.
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