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Financial News News 31 December 2025

Lumentum stock slips today as year-end trading thins out — what to watch next for LITE

Lumentum stock slips today as year-end trading thins out — what to watch next for LITE

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 8:58 PM ET — Market closed Lumentum Holdings Inc. shares ended Tuesday down 0.4% at $371.19, as year-end trading stayed subdued and investors trimmed exposure to parts of the technology complex. markets.businessinsider.com The optical-components maker has become a high-beta way to trade demand tied to cloud and AI infrastructure, and thin liquidity late in the year can amplify swings. U.S. benchmarks finished slightly lower, with losses in technology and financials offsetting gains elsewhere, Reuters reported. “It’s just a healthy rebalancing of allocations more so than an emotionally driven sell-off,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist
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MercadoLibre stock closes higher as year-end trading thins; Fed minutes keep rates in focus

MercadoLibre stock closes higher as year-end trading thins; Fed minutes keep rates in focus

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 20:48 ET — Market closed MercadoLibre Inc (MELI) shares closed up 0.3% at $2,020.88 on Tuesday, after trading between $1,997.46 and $2,028.95. Volume was about 294,000 shares. The muted move mattered because liquidity has been thin into the year-end, and small shifts in rate expectations can swing the prices of higher-growth stocks. Investors often adjust what they are willing to pay for future earnings when interest rates move. That rate sensitivity stayed front and center after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 9-10 meeting showed officials divided on how much more to cut in 2026.
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Coca-Cola stock today slips on thin year-end trade — here’s what investors watch next

Coca-Cola stock today slips on thin year-end trade — here’s what investors watch next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 8:44 PM ET — Market closed Coca-Cola shares edged lower on Tuesday, closing down 0.13% at $70.07, as investors kept positions tight heading into the New Year holiday. Yahoo Finance The muted move matters because Coca-Cola is a bellwether “consumer staples” name — a defensive corner of the market that tends to be sensitive to shifts in interest-rate expectations and year-end portfolio rebalancing. Holiday-thin trading across Wall Street kept price action narrow. The S&P 500 ended down 0.14% and the Nasdaq slipped 0.23% as Treasury yields ticked up, according to Reuters. “Solid corporate profits can
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T-Mobile stock closes higher again as year-end rotation lifts telecom — what traders watch next

T-Mobile stock closes higher again as year-end rotation lifts telecom — what traders watch next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 20:30 ET — Market closed T-Mobile US shares edged higher on Tuesday, closing up 0.32% at $203.80. The stock ranged from $201.68 to $204.20, with about 2.95 million shares changing hands. Investing.com The steady grind higher matters because late-December trading is typically thinner, and small swings in sector positioning can move large-cap names. For T-Mobile, the bounce has put the stock back within reach of recent resistance levels after a choppy month. Telecom investors have also been reassessing what will drive returns in early 2026: pricing discipline, subscriber momentum and the interest-rate outlook that can
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Newmont stock today: NEM ends higher as gold rebounds after sharp year-end swings

Newmont stock today: NEM ends higher as gold rebounds after sharp year-end swings

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 20:23 ET — Market closed. Newmont Corp (NEM) shares closed up about 2% on Tuesday at $101.86, even as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended modestly lower in holiday-thin trade. Reuters The move matters heading into the final session of 2025 because Newmont’s stock remains tightly tethered to bullion, and gold has been whipping around on year-end position changes. That volatility has forced fast shifts in risk appetite across the mining sector, with miners often moving more than the metal itself as investors reset exposure. Spot gold rose 0.8% to $4,364.70 an ounce by mid-afternoon
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Verizon stock edges higher in thin year-end trade as investors line up for Jan. 30 earnings

Verizon stock edges higher in thin year-end trade as investors line up for Jan. 30 earnings

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 20:15 ET — Market closed Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE: VZ) shares rose 0.54% to $40.70 at the close on Tuesday, after trading between $40.42 and $40.77. The stock was down 0.12% in late after-hours trading. StockAnalysis The move matters because Verizon is a widely held, cash-generative telecom name that investors often use for defensive exposure when trading turns choppy. With volumes thin into year-end, even small shifts in positioning can show up in steady, high-liquidity stocks such as Verizon. Communication services shares were among the biggest gainers on the S&P 500 even as the index
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PepsiCo stock price today: PEP holds $144 as Fed minutes cap year-end trading

PepsiCo stock price today: PEP holds $144 as Fed minutes cap year-end trading

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 20:02 ET — Market closed. PepsiCo (PEP.O) was last down 0.1% at $144.16 after the close on Tuesday, after ending the regular session at about $144.25. The stock traded between $143.81 and $145.22 during the session. The muted move matters now because markets are repricing the path for U.S. interest rates into 2026. Minutes released Tuesday from the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 9-10 meeting showed officials were deeply divided over a quarter-point cut that lowered the benchmark overnight rate to a 3.5% to 3.75% range. Reuters Those rate expectations can sway defensive consumer-staples names such as
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Texas Instruments stock today: TXN holds near $175 in late after-hours as Fed minutes, year-end flows mute chip trade

Texas Instruments stock today: TXN holds near $175 in late after-hours as Fed minutes, year-end flows mute chip trade

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 19:59 ET — After-hours Texas Instruments (TXN.O) shares were little changed at $175.42 in late after-hours trading on Tuesday, after slipping 0.15% in the regular session. The muted move matters because Texas Instruments is a bellwether for “analog” chips — components that translate real-world signals such as temperature or sound into electrical data — and the stock often tracks shifts in risk appetite when trading is thin into year-end. That dynamic was on display as investors rotated within mega-cap technology and watched interest-rate expectations. “It’s just a healthy rebalancing of allocations,” said Mark Hackett, chief
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PayPal stock slips after Fed minutes in thin year-end trade — what investors watch next

PayPal stock slips after Fed minutes in thin year-end trade — what investors watch next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 19:56 ET — After-hours PayPal Holdings, Inc. shares dipped about 0.7% to $59.10 in after-hours trading on Tuesday, the session after the 4 p.m. close, after a quiet day for markets. The move matters because PayPal is a rate-sensitive consumer payments name, and investors are re-pricing what “higher for longer” means heading into 2026. It also comes in holiday-thin trading, when relatively small flows can push stocks around more than usual, especially in big, widely held fintech names. U.S. stocks ended slightly lower as gains in communication services were offset by declines in tech and
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Merck (MRK) stock slips at the close, then steadies after hours as year-end trading thins

Merck (MRK) stock slips at the close, then steadies after hours as year-end trading thins

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 19:42 ET — After-hours Merck & Company, Inc. (MRK) shares fell 0.53% to $106.06 at the close on Tuesday and were up about 0.1% in after-hours trading at $106.17. The stock has traded between $73.31 and $107.59 over the past 52 weeks. Investing.com The muted move matters now because liquidity typically thins into year-end, which can exaggerate small price swings even in defensive healthcare names. Merck has scheduled its fourth-quarter earnings call for Feb. 3, putting its 2026 outlook in focus as investors reset positions for the new year. Merck.com Wall Street’s main indexes closed
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Booking Holdings (BKNG) stock slips after Fed minutes; traders eye what’s next

Booking Holdings (BKNG) stock slips after Fed minutes; traders eye what’s next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 19:36 ET — After-hours Booking Holdings shares ended Tuesday down 0.26% at $5,427.15 and eased 0.16% to $5,418.57 by 7:18 p.m. ET in after-hours trading, the session after the New York close. Trading in the stock itself was muted, with about 135,000 shares changing hands, roughly half its 65-day average volume. That kind of light tape can make small shifts in risk appetite show up faster in high-priced consumer names. The timing matters because investors are heading into the final U.S. trading session of the year with interest rates back in focus. Booking is often
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Adobe stock slips after hours as year-end tech rotation caps trading — what to watch next

Adobe stock slips after hours as year-end tech rotation caps trading — what to watch next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 7:22 PM ET — After-hours Adobe Inc. shares dipped in after-hours trading on Tuesday, down 0.2% at $352.51, after moving between $350.10 and $355.24 during the session. The move matters now because U.S. trading is entering the final, thinly traded stretch of the year, when small shifts in positioning can push single stocks around more than usual. It also comes as investors have been rotating within megacap and software names after a strong run into year-end, with some money shifting away from crowded technology trades. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished slightly
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ST Engineering stock price drops 2% to S$9.71 as drone-autonomy tie-up grabs attention

ST Engineering stock price drops 2% to S$9.71 as drone-autonomy tie-up grabs attention

7 February 2026
ST Engineering shares fell 1.9% to S$9.71 Friday, outpacing the Singapore market’s 0.8% drop amid a tech-led selloff. The company signed a deal with Shield AI at the Singapore Airshow to integrate autonomy software into its unmanned platforms and unveiled a small drone capable of carrying explosives. About 6.9 million shares traded as investors await full-year results on Feb. 27.
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