Bank Stocks Week Ahead: Fed “Pause” Signals, Holiday-Thin Trading, and Buybacks Put Financials in Focus (Dec. 22–26, 2025)
Bank stocks head into Christmas week with a familiar year-end setup: lighter liquidity, a compressed calendar, and just enough macro and policy headlines to move interest rates—and, by extension, the entire financial sector. Over Dec. 19–21, 2025, the storylines that