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US Stock Market Today, December 5, 2025: Wall Street Hovers Near Record Highs Ahead of Fed’s Key Inflation Test

US Stock Market Today, December 5, 2025: Wall Street Hovers Near Record Highs Ahead of Fed’s Key Inflation Test

New York — Friday, December 5, 2025. The US stock market today is trading in a cautious but upbeat mood as investors digest a week of mixed economic data and brace for the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the PCE price index, due later in the day. Stock indexes remain within touching distance of all‑time highs, while bond yields and the US dollar continue to reflect growing confidence that the Fed will deliver a rate cut at next week’s policy meeting. Reuters+2Investopedia+2 Global equities are also firm, with world stocks on track for a second straight week of gains, helped
5 December 2025
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Mortgage Rates Today, December 5, 2025: Low‑6% Sweet Spot and What It Means for 2026

Mortgage Rates Today, December 5, 2025: Low‑6% Sweet Spot and What It Means for 2026

Mortgage rates are closing out the first week of December 2025 in a rare “sweet spot” for today’s market: solidly in the low‑6% range, trending slightly lower, and backed by growing evidence that 2026 could be modestly more affordable—but not a return to 3% money. If you’re wondering whether to buy now, refinance, or wait for lower rates, here’s what the latest data and forecasts are really saying. Current Mortgage Rates Today (December 5, 2025) Different surveys measure rates in different ways, but they all tell a similar story: U.S. mortgage rates have eased for a second week and are hovering in
5 December 2025
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Federal Reserve News Today: Markets Price In December Rate Cut as Trump Teases New Fed Chair Pick

Federal Reserve News Today: Markets Price In December Rate Cut as Trump Teases New Fed Chair Pick

As of Friday, December 5, 2025, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve ahead of next week’s December 9–10 FOMC meeting. Markets are betting heavily on another interest‑rate cut, economists’ surveys show a strong consensus for a 25‑basis‑point move, and a new political twist has entered the picture as President Donald Trump signals he will name a new Fed chair in early 2026, with economic adviser Kevin Hassett seen as the frontrunner. Al Jazeera+3Federal Reserve+3Reuters+3 At the same time, fresh inflation estimates, a still‑resilient labor market, and the Fed’s own recent communications are keeping the outlook uncertain. Here’s a detailed look
5 December 2025
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Is Shopify Down Today? Cyber Monday Outage, Cloudflare Chaos and What It Means for E‑Commerce (December 5, 2025)

Is Shopify Down Today? Cyber Monday Outage, Cloudflare Chaos and What It Means for E‑Commerce (December 5, 2025)

Published: December 5, 2025 As of this morning, Shopify’s own systems are largely operational again after a bruising week that exposed just how dependent online retail has become on a handful of platforms and infrastructure providers. On Cyber Monday, December 1, a login meltdown inside Shopify locked thousands of merchants out of their backends for hours during one of the most important shopping days of the year.Reuters+1 Four days later, on December 5, a separate global outage at infrastructure giant Cloudflare triggered 500‑error messages across huge chunks of the internet, briefly disrupting access to Shopify and many other sites once
5 December 2025
Q/C Technologies (QCLS) Stock: Shkreli-Fueled Quantum-Class Rally, Latest News and Forecasts as of December 5, 2025

Q/C Technologies (QCLS) Stock: Shkreli-Fueled Quantum-Class Rally, Latest News and Forecasts as of December 5, 2025

Q/C Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCLS) has suddenly gone from obscure microcap to social‑media star. Over just two trading sessions, the stock has effectively doubled after former pharma executive Martin Shkreli disclosed a position, floated a near‑term $100 price target, and hinted at wanting to run the company if regulators ever let him back into a C‑suite. Benzinga+2Stocktwits+2 Underneath the drama is a tiny company that recently pivoted from biotech into “quantum‑class” photonic computing and blockchain infrastructure, built around licensed light‑based processors from Israeli startup LightSolver. Streamlined+3Business Wire+3Business Wire+3 This article pulls together the latest news, price action, forecasts and analyses
5 December 2025
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AWS Down Today? What’s Really Behind the December 5, 2025 Internet Outage

AWS Down Today? What’s Really Behind the December 5, 2025 Internet Outage

On December 5, 2025, huge parts of the internet briefly broke for millions of users worldwide. Trading apps stalled, AI tools wouldn’t load, gaming platforms crashed, and social media feeds filled with screenshots of 500 errors and the familiar question: “Is AWS down today?” The short answer: No — Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not experiencing a new global outage today. The disruption is being driven by Cloudflare, a separate internet infrastructure provider that suffered its second major outage in less than a month. The Economic Times+3euronews+3TechRepublic+3 Below is a clear breakdown of what’s happening, why everyone keeps blaming AWS, and how to check the real
5 December 2025
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Coinbase’s Big Bank Crypto Pilots Mark a New Phase in Wall Street’s Digital Asset Push

Coinbase’s Big Bank Crypto Pilots Mark a New Phase in Wall Street’s Digital Asset Push

As of December 5, 2025, Coinbase’s newly revealed partnerships with some of America’s largest banks have become one of the clearest signals yet that traditional finance is preparing to run on crypto rails. At The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on December 3, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that “some of the largest banks” in the U.S. are now running pilot programs with the exchange focused on stablecoins, crypto custody and trading.Bloomberg Law News+1 Follow‑up reporting from crypto and fintech outlets indicates that JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup are among the institutions involved, building on earlier announced ties
5 December 2025
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Moon Tonight, December 5, 2025: How to See the Last Cold Supermoon of the Year

Moon Tonight, December 5, 2025: How to See the Last Cold Supermoon of the Year

On Friday night, December 5, 2025, the Moon is still basking in the glow of the year’s final full “Cold” supermoon — and to the naked eye, it will look gloriously full all over again. The exact moment of full phase occurred yesterday (Thursday, December 4), when the Moon reached peak illumination around 23:14 UTC (early December 5 in parts of Asia and Australia).Time and Date+1 But astronomers and skywatchers agree: the Moon appears full for several nights in a row, and tonight’s Moon is still more than 99% illuminated, qualifying as a spectacular encore to the main event.Time and Date+3TheSkyLive+3Moon phases+3 Across the globe,
5 December 2025
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NASA Warns Starlink-Style Satellite Megaconstellations Could Contaminate Nearly All Future Space Telescope Images

NASA Warns Starlink-Style Satellite Megaconstellations Could Contaminate Nearly All Future Space Telescope Images

Published: December 5, 2025 Key takeaways What’s new: a landmark Nature study raises the alarm On December 3, 2025, Nature published a peer‑reviewed paper titled “Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space‑based astronomy,” authored by NASA researchers Alejandro S. Borlaff, Pamela M. Marcum and Steve B. Howell. Nature Their work tackles a question that, until now, had mainly worried ground‑based observatories: what happens to space telescopes when low‑Earth orbit fills up with hundreds of thousands of bright satellites? Using filings to regulators such as the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the team modeled a future in which LEO hosts around half a million satellites by the
5 December 2025
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TfL’s Moorgate Takeover Bid: Full List of Great Northern Stations That Could Join London Overground by 2027

TfL’s Moorgate Takeover Bid: Full List of Great Northern Stations That Could Join London Overground by 2027

As of 5 December 2025, Transport for London’s (TfL) bid to take over the Great Northern “inners” route from Moorgate has moved from long‑running aspiration to a concrete proposal – complete with an outline business case, newly released FOI documents and a clear list of stations that could end up with London Overground‑style services by the end of 2027. ianVisits+1 If approved, the plans would reshape rail travel from the City of London into north London and Hertfordshire, tie directly into a proposed 21,000‑home “new town” at Crews Hill, and slot into the wider national shift to public ownership and
5 December 2025
Cloudflare Down Today: Global Internet Outage on December 5, 2025 – What Happened, Who Was Hit, and If It’s Fixed Now

Cloudflare Down Today: Global Internet Outage on December 5, 2025 – What Happened, Who Was Hit, and If It’s Fixed Now

Cloudflare went down on December 5, 2025, knocking out up to 20% of websites and causing 500 Internal Server Errors across major apps like Zoom, LinkedIn, X, Spotify, Canva, Shopify and more. Here’s the cause, timeline, and what to do if your site is still impacted. Key points at a glance Cloudflare down today: timeline of the December 5 outage Shortly before 09:00 UTC on December 5, 2025, Cloudflare’s own status page raised a red flag: an incident labeled “Cloudflare Service Issues” noted problems with the Dashboard and Cloudflare APIs, warning that requests might fail or show errors.Cloudflare Status At almost exactly the same time, monitoring
5 December 2025
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‘China’s Nvidia’ Moore Threads Soars Over 400% in Shanghai Debut After $1.1 Billion IPO, Supercharging Beijing’s AI Chip Ambitions

‘China’s Nvidia’ Moore Threads Soars Over 400% in Shanghai Debut After $1.1 Billion IPO, Supercharging Beijing’s AI Chip Ambitions

Shanghai / Beijing – December 5, 2025 – Chinese GPU designer Moore Threads made one of the most dramatic stock market debuts in recent memory on Friday, as its shares surged more than fourfold on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market after a roughly 8 billion yuan ($1.1–$1.13 billion) initial public offering.The Outpost+2Moneycontrol+2 The Beijing-based firm, frequently dubbed “China’s Nvidia”, opened around 650 yuan per share versus an IPO price of 114.28 yuan and traded near 600 yuan in early sessions – a gain of roughly 400–500% that at one point marked the biggest first‑day jump for a Chinese IPO
5 December 2025
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WA Property Finance in Focus: Pallas Capital’s Perth Expansion, CBA’s Ellie Everington and the 5% First Home Buyer Scheme Squeeze

WA Property Finance in Focus: Pallas Capital’s Perth Expansion, CBA’s Ellie Everington and the 5% First Home Buyer Scheme Squeeze

Published: 5 December 2025 Western Australia has suddenly moved to the centre of Australia’s housing and mortgage story. On the same day that non‑bank lender Pallas Capital confirmed a major push into Perth and Commonwealth Bank’s Ellie Everington stepped into the spotlight as WA state sales manager, policymakers and lenders are grappling with the fallout from the federal 5% First Home Buyer Deposit Scheme — including longer mortgage pre‑approval times and new tensions around broker access. Taken together, these developments show how policy, pricing and people are reshaping the way West Australians — and first‑home buyers nationally — access finance
5 December 2025
Cloudflare Down Again: December 5, 2025 Outage Triggers 500 Errors for Zoom, X, Canva, Banks and More

Cloudflare Down Again: December 5, 2025 Outage Triggers 500 Errors for Zoom, X, Canva, Banks and More

Cloudflare, one of the internet’s most important infrastructure providers, suffered another major outage on Friday, December 5, 2025, briefly knocking offline or slowing a huge range of websites and apps around the world. Users trying to reach services from social networks and AI tools to trading platforms and banks were met with “500 Internal Server Error” messages and stalled dashboards — just weeks after a similar global incident in November. BleepingComputer+2The Economic Times+2 The company says it has now implemented a fix and is monitoring systems, but the back‑to‑back outages are intensifying questions about how much of the modern web
5 December 2025
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Shopify Outage Update: Cyber Monday Login Failure and December 5 Cloudflare Impact

Shopify Outage Update: Cyber Monday Login Failure and December 5 Cloudflare Impact

December 5, 2025 For thousands of Shopify merchants, Cyber Monday 2025 was less about record-breaking orders and more about staring at a frozen login screen. Four days later, on December 5, Shopify is once again in the news as a separate Cloudflare outage briefly disrupts some stores and admin dashboards — even as the company insists its own systems are now fully operational. Red94+1 This is where things stand today, how we got here, and what it all means for merchants heading into the rest of the holiday season. Is Shopify down today? As of the morning of December 5,
5 December 2025
2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software: Workday, OneStream and Board Front an AI Arms Race in FP&A

2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software: Workday, OneStream and Board Front an AI Arms Race in FP&A

The financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software market just hit a major checkpoint. Gartner has published its 2025 Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, and within hours a wave of vendors — including Workday, OneStream and Board — announced fresh leadership positions, all leaning heavily into AI, agents and unified enterprise planning. PR Newswire+2PR Newswire+2 For CFOs and FP&A leaders, these announcements on and around December 4–5, 2025, are more than marketing. They provide a snapshot of who Gartner sees as shaping the next era of planning, forecasting and performance management across 14 evaluated vendors. Anaplan Inc What the 2025
5 December 2025
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AWS, Azure And Cloudflare Outages Expose A Growing Cloud Reliability Crisis — And Why DNS Resilience Is Now Center Stage

AWS, Azure And Cloudflare Outages Expose A Growing Cloud Reliability Crisis — And Why DNS Resilience Is Now Center Stage

As of December 5, 2025, the global internet is once again grappling with reliability questions after a fresh Cloudflare disruption on top of recent outages at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and other core infrastructure providers. At the same time, AWS is rolling out a new Route 53 “Accelerated Recovery” feature and partnering with Google Cloud on a multicloud link designed to make it easier to ride out future failures. Amazon Web Services, Inc.+2Reuters+2 This combination of repeated outages and rapid engineering responses is reshaping the debate about whether the cloud can still be treated as “always on” —
5 December 2025
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Salesforce Stock Pops as Q3 2026 Earnings, AI Deals and AstraZeneca Partnership Lift Guidance — But Investor AI Skepticism Lingers

Salesforce Stock Pops as Q3 2026 Earnings, AI Deals and AstraZeneca Partnership Lift Guidance — But Investor AI Skepticism Lingers

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has triggered a fresh wave of headlines after posting record third‑quarter fiscal 2026 results, raising its full‑year outlook and signing a high‑profile AI deal with AstraZeneca. Yet despite the post‑earnings stock pop and new enterprise wins, CEO Marc Benioff is still fighting to convince Wall Street that Salesforce’s aggressive artificial intelligence strategy will translate into lasting shareholder returns. Salesforce Investor Relations+2Reuters+2 Q3 2026 by the numbers: record revenue, fatter margins For its fiscal third quarter ended October 31, 2025, Salesforce reported: On the bottom line, Salesforce delivered adjusted EPS of $3.25, handily beating the roughly $2.86 Wall
5 December 2025
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Gold Price Today, December 5, 2025: Yellow Metal Firms on Weak Dollar as Fed Cut Bets Grow and Silver Nears Record High

Gold Price Today, December 5, 2025: Yellow Metal Firms on Weak Dollar as Fed Cut Bets Grow and Silver Nears Record High

Gold prices are edging higher on Friday, December 5, 2025, as a softer U.S. dollar offsets pressure from still-elevated bond yields and investors brace for a crucial U.S. inflation release that could set the tone for next week’s Federal Reserve meeting. Spot gold is trading a little above $4,220 per ounce, up roughly 0.5% intraday, while U.S. gold futures hover in the mid‑$4,250s, leaving the metal marginally higher for the week after a choppy few sessions. Reuters+1 At the same time, silver remains the standout story of 2025: prices are holding around $58 an ounce, just below this week’s fresh
5 December 2025
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New Fortress Energy (NFE) Stock: Puerto Rico Gas Deal Triggers Relief Rally Amid Going‑Concern Fears – December 5, 2025

New Fortress Energy (NFE) Stock: Puerto Rico Gas Deal Triggers Relief Rally Amid Going‑Concern Fears – December 5, 2025

As of December 5, 2025, New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) sits at the center of one of the most dramatic turnarounds‑or‑bust stories in the global LNG market. The stock has bounced on news of a long‑awaited gas supply deal with Puerto Rico, even as the company warns there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern and scrambles to restructure more than $7–9 billion of debt. Business Wire+2Stock Titan+2 For investors following NFE on Google News or Discover, the picture is a mix of powerful catalysts and very real solvency risk. Where New Fortress Energy
5 December 2025
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Eli Lilly stock pops as FDA targets cheap weight-loss copycats — what to know before Monday

Eli Lilly stock pops as FDA targets cheap weight-loss copycats — what to know before Monday

7 February 2026
Eli Lilly shares rose 3.7% to $1,058.18 Friday after the FDA said it would act against telehealth firm Hims & Hers for marketing a $49 compounded weight-loss pill. The move followed a sharp selloff Thursday when Hims announced plans to sell a version of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. Investors remain uncertain how aggressively regulators will police copycat drugs and pricing in the obesity drug market.
Saudi Aramco share price set for Sunday test after Tadawul ends market-making deal

Saudi Aramco share price set for Sunday test after Tadawul ends market-making deal

7 February 2026
Saudi Exchange approved Merrill Lynch KSA’s exit as market maker for Saudi Aramco, effective Feb. 8. Aramco shares closed at 25.60 riyals Thursday, down 0.06, with 22.1 million traded. The Tadawul index fell 1.3% as Brent crude dropped to $67.93. Aramco set March official selling prices at $2.10 above Argus for North America and $0.65 above ICE Brent for Western Europe.
Meta stock ends week down about 6% as Wall Street fixates on $135 billion AI capex

Meta stock ends week down about 6% as Wall Street fixates on $135 billion AI capex

7 February 2026
Meta closed down 1.3% Friday at $661.46, capping a 6.4% weekly drop as investors questioned heavy AI spending. Amazon and Alphabet also fell after outlining major capital outlays. Meta’s Instagram suffered a brief outage this week. Legal risks persist, with trials involving Meta set for next week in Los Angeles and New Mexico.
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