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Shan Ahmed Khan

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D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Stock Surges Into Dec. 23, 2025: CES 2026 Catalyst, Analyst Price Targets, and 2026 Forecasts

D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Stock Surges Into Dec. 23, 2025: CES 2026 Catalyst, Analyst Price Targets, and 2026 Forecasts

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) is ending 2025 the way many momentum names do: loudly. After a sharp rally on Monday, QBTS is now at the center of a fresh news cycle tied to CES 2026, a growing pile of bullish Wall Street initiations, and a broader “quantum trade” that’s been swinging hard with retail sentiment into the holiday-shortened stretch. Below is a roundup of the key headlines and the most-cited forecasts and analyses circulating as of December 23, 2025—plus what they suggest (and what they don’t) for QBTS stock. QBTS stock price today: what happened heading into Dec. 23
23 December 2025
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Starfighters Space (FJET) Stock News Today: After a 370% Surge, FJET Pulls Back Pre-Market on Dec. 23, 2025

Starfighters Space (FJET) Stock News Today: After a 370% Surge, FJET Pulls Back Pre-Market on Dec. 23, 2025

Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET) has turned into one of the market’s loudest “new ticker” stories heading into the Christmas-week lull—rocketing to a $31.50 close on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, then giving back a chunk of the move in pre-market trading early Tuesday, Dec. 23. StockAnalysis+1 The headline numbers are hard to ignore: That kind of whiplash is not unusual for freshly listed, retail-buzzed stocks—especially when the public float is tight, fundamentals are still being digested, and the story has splashy keywords (supersonic jets + “space launch”) attached to it. Below is a detailed, publication-ready breakdown of what’s driving
23 December 2025
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Novo Nordisk (NVO) Stock Jumps After FDA Approves Wegovy Pill: Today’s News, Analyst Forecasts, and 2026 Catalysts (23 December 2025)

Novo Nordisk (NVO) Stock Jumps After FDA Approves Wegovy Pill: Today’s News, Analyst Forecasts, and 2026 Catalysts (23 December 2025)

Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) is back in the market’s spotlight on 23 December 2025 after a major regulatory milestone: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a pill version of Wegovy, making it the first oral GLP‑1 receptor agonist cleared for chronic weight management in the U.S. The news sent Novo Nordisk shares sharply higher in early trading and reverberated across European markets, where the company’s move helped lift healthcare stocks. Novo Nordisk+2Reuters+2 The approval also lands at a delicate moment for Novo: competition from Eli Lilly has intensified, pricing pressure is building, and investors have been scrutinizing Novo’s
23 December 2025
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Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid at least £280m despite profit slump, as bookmaker expands in the US and exits China

Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid at least £280m despite profit slump, as bookmaker expands in the US and exits China

December 23, 2025 Bet365 founder and joint chief executive Denise Coates has taken home at least £280 million in salary and dividends for the latest financial year, even as the privately held online gambling giant reported a sharp drop in profits. The figure, revealed in newly filed company accounts, reignites a long-running debate about executive pay in founder-controlled businesses—while also spotlighting how expensive Bet365’s global repositioning has become as it pushes deeper into regulated markets such as the United States and retreats from more legally fraught territories like China. The Guardian+1 Multiple outlets reporting on the same set of filings
23 December 2025
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XRP Price Today (Dec. 23, 2025): XRP Trades Near $1.88 as ETF Volume, On‑Chain Milestones, and Lending Plans Fuel the Debate

XRP Price Today (Dec. 23, 2025): XRP Trades Near $1.88 as ETF Volume, On‑Chain Milestones, and Lending Plans Fuel the Debate

XRP price today is hovering around $1.88 on December 23, 2025, down roughly 2% over the past 24 hours after trading between about $1.87 and $1.94. XRP’s market capitalization is sitting near $114 billion, keeping it among the largest cryptocurrencies even as price action remains range-bound heading into year-end. Trading activity remains elevated across major venues, with about $2.5 billion in XRP changing hands over the last 24 hours (all exchanges combined), a sign that the market is still very much “awake”—even if the chart looks sleepy. CoinGecko So what’s driving the push-and-pull in the Ripple-linked token today? The short
23 December 2025
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Night Sky Tonight (Dec. 23, 2025): Crescent Moon Earthshine, Northern Lights Alert, and the Ursids’ Final ActNight Sky TonightNight Sky Tonight (Dec. 23, 2025): Crescent Moon Earthshine, Northern Lights Alert, and the Ursids’ Final Act

Night Sky Tonight (Dec. 23, 2025): Crescent Moon Earthshine, Northern Lights Alert, and the Ursids’ Final ActNight Sky TonightNight Sky Tonight (Dec. 23, 2025): Crescent Moon Earthshine, Northern Lights Alert, and the Ursids’ Final Act

Dec. 23, 2025 — Tonight’s sky is doing that classic winter trick: it gets dark early, stays dark long, and then quietly hands you a few genuinely photogenic targets as a reward for being a warm-blooded mammal who chose to go outside anyway. The main storylines in Night Sky Today (December 23, 2025) are straightforward and very worth your time: a thin waxing crescent Moon with “earthshine” shortly after sunset, a NOAA-backed aurora chance that could push the northern lights into parts of the U.S., and the Ursid meteor shower still ticking through its final nights of the year. American
23 December 2025
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Natural Gas Today (December 23, 2025): Record U.S. Output, Steady European Supply, and New LNG Export Filings Set the Tone

Natural Gas Today (December 23, 2025): Record U.S. Output, Steady European Supply, and New LNG Export Filings Set the Tone

December 23, 2025 — Natural gas markets are heading into the holiday stretch with a familiar winter tug-of-war: weather-driven demand vs. resilient supply. In the U.S., record production and warmer forecasts are keeping futures from running away, even as traders watch storage withdrawals and LNG export demand. In Europe, prices remain relatively contained thanks to Norwegian flows and LNG availability, despite winter drawdowns. In Asia, the LNG picture is split—China’s domestic LNG prices are sliding to multi-year lows on weak winter demand, while Myanmar is preparing a comeback as an LNG importer after years off the map. Below are the
23 December 2025
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Comet 3I/ATLAS Today (Dec. 23, 2025): New Spacecraft Data, X‑Rays, “Radio Signals,” and the Next Big Test at Jupiter

Comet 3I/ATLAS Today (Dec. 23, 2025): New Spacecraft Data, X‑Rays, “Radio Signals,” and the Next Big Test at Jupiter

December 23, 2025 — Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen passing through our solar system, is already on its way out. But the news cycle around it is still very much inbound. In the days following 3I/ATLAS’ closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, space agencies and research teams have been stitching together an unusually rich, multiwavelength “biography” of this visitor from another star system: NASA says it’s a normal (if rare) active comet, while ESA and Japan’s XRISM mission have revealed something never conclusively seen in an interstellar comet before—an X‑ray glow produced as the
23 December 2025
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AI Stocks Today (Dec. 23, 2025): China’s AI Surge, Big Tech’s Power Grab, and New Red Flags for Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon and More

AI Stocks Today (Dec. 23, 2025): China’s AI Surge, Big Tech’s Power Grab, and New Red Flags for Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon and More

AI stocks are heading into the final stretch of 2025 with a familiar contradiction: demand signals still look strong, but the market’s tolerance for “priced-for-perfection” narratives is thinning fast. On Tuesday, December 23, the AI news cycle hit nearly every layer of the stack—chips, cloud, data centers, power, autonomous systems, and even the legal plumbing underneath generative AI. Below is a comprehensive roundup of the key AI-stock headlines dated Dec. 23, 2025—plus what they mean for investors watching Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta, AMD, Broadcom, Taiwan’s chip ecosystem, and China’s rapidly scaling AI complex. The big picture: AI spending
23 December 2025
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US Stock Market Today (Dec. 23, 2025): S&P 500 Near Record as Tech Rebound Holds, GDP and Consumer Confidence in Focus

US Stock Market Today (Dec. 23, 2025): S&P 500 Near Record as Tech Rebound Holds, GDP and Consumer Confidence in Focus

U.S. stocks head into Tuesday, December 23, with the S&P 500 within striking distance of its recent record after Wall Street kicked off the holiday-shortened week with broad gains powered by a renewed tech rebound. The market’s tone is upbeat—but the calendar is doing its usual late-December trick: thin liquidity, compressed hours, and a cluster of economic reports that can still jolt prices even when many desks are half-staffed. Reuters On Monday’s close (reported early Tuesday), the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 227.79 points (0.47%) to 48,362.68, the S&P 500 added 43.99 points (0.64%) to 6,878.49, and the Nasdaq Composite
23 December 2025
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Bitcoin Price Today (Dec. 23, 2025): BTC Slips Below $88,000 as Traders Weigh U.S. Data, ETF Flows, and Year‑End Volatility

Bitcoin Price Today (Dec. 23, 2025): BTC Slips Below $88,000 as Traders Weigh U.S. Data, ETF Flows, and Year‑End Volatility

Bitcoin is starting Tuesday, December 23, 2025, on the back foot, drifting back below the $88,000 mark after a brief attempt to reclaim $90,000 earlier in the week. Across major spot markets, the world’s largest cryptocurrency is still firmly range-bound—caught between thin holiday liquidity and a long list of “wait-and-see” catalysts that traders think could decide the next meaningful move. As of the latest widely tracked pricing, Bitcoin is hovering around $87,500—down roughly 2% over the past 24 hours—after trading in a roughly $87,000 to $90,000 band during the same period. CoinGecko Bitcoin price today: Where BTC is trading right
23 December 2025
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Gold Price Today Hits Fresh Record Near $4,500 as Safe-Haven Demand Surges on U.S.-Venezuela Tensions (Dec. 23, 2025)

Gold Price Today Hits Fresh Record Near $4,500 as Safe-Haven Demand Surges on U.S.-Venezuela Tensions (Dec. 23, 2025)

Gold price today pushed deeper into uncharted territory on Tuesday, December 23, with spot gold hovering around the mid‑$4,400s per ounce after briefly touching an all‑time high just shy of the psychologically important $4,500 mark. The move comes as investors lean harder into “insurance assets” amid escalating U.S.-Venezuela friction, renewed geopolitical uncertainty elsewhere, and growing conviction that U.S. interest rates are headed lower in 2026. Reuters+1 By early European trading, Reuters reported spot gold up about 0.9% near $4,486.55/oz after hitting a record $4,497.55 earlier in the session, while U.S. gold futures for February traded around $4,519.20. Reuters Gold price
23 December 2025
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Stock Market Today

Nvidia stock jumps nearly 8% as Big Tech AI spending bets lift chipmakers and Dow tops 50,000

Nvidia stock jumps nearly 8% as Big Tech AI spending bets lift chipmakers and Dow tops 50,000

7 February 2026
Nvidia surged 7.8% Friday, leading a chip stock rally that pushed the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. The PHLX semiconductor index gained 5.7% as Advanced Micro Devices rose 8.3% and Broadcom 7.1%. Amazon fell 5.6% after projecting $200 billion in 2026 capital spending. Investors weighed a $600 billion AI infrastructure outlay against sharp losses in software shares.
Glencore share price steadies after Rio Tinto walks away — what to watch next week

Glencore share price steadies after Rio Tinto walks away — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Glencore shares closed up 0.6% at 478.1 pence Friday, rebounding after a 7% drop following the collapse of merger talks with Rio Tinto. The company is expected to announce the sale of its Kazzinc stake soon and has signed a non-binding agreement with Orion for a potential $9 billion deal in the DRC. Investors await Glencore’s full-year results on Feb. 18 for further guidance.
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