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Investing News 1 January 2026

Home Depot stock slips into the year-end close as yields rise; here’s what investors watch next

Home Depot stock slips into the year-end close as yields rise; here’s what investors watch next

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 20:13 ET — Market closed. Home Depot (HD.N) shares fell 0.6% to $344.10 on Wednesday, after trading between $343.98 and $346.69. Rival Lowe’s (LOW.N) slid 0.8%, while the consumer-discretionary sector also eased. The move matters now because Home Depot is a read-through on U.S. repair-and-remodel demand, which often tracks housing activity and borrowing costs. With the calendar turning, investors are also repositioning around interest-rate expectations that can quickly change sentiment toward housing-linked stocks. Wall Street finished the final session of 2025 lower in light trading, and Treasury yields climbed after a labor-market update showed fewer
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Verizon stock today: VZ ends 2025 nearly flat as investors circle Jan. 30 earnings, dividend dates

Verizon stock today: VZ ends 2025 nearly flat as investors circle Jan. 30 earnings, dividend dates

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 20:03 ET — Market closed Verizon Communications Inc. shares finished the year’s final trading session little changed on Wednesday, closing up 0.1% at $40.73 after trading between $40.67 and $40.96. Verizon’s investor relations site lists a fourth-quarter earnings webcast for Jan. 30 at 8:00 a.m. ET. The late-January report is the next major catalyst for a high-dividend stock that often tracks shifts in interest-rate expectations. Investors use the results to gauge whether Verizon can keep cash generation steady while U.S. wireless competition remains intense. Timing matters because the market will reopen on Friday after a
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Costco stock slips into year-end as investors focus on Jan. 7 sales report

Costco stock slips into year-end as investors focus on Jan. 7 sales report

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:53 ET Costco Wholesale shares edged lower in thin year-end trading on Wednesday as investors looked ahead to the retailer’s next update: a monthly sales report due in early January. The move was modest, but the timing matters. Costco’s December sales snapshot will be one of the first reads on holiday-season demand as investors recalibrate expectations for U.S. consumers in 2026. With liquidity lighter into the year-end break, smaller orders can move prices more than usual. Investors are also weighing how quickly interest rates may fall, a backdrop that can sway valuation-sensitive consumer and retail
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Google stock caps best year since 2009 as AI bets carry Alphabet into 2026

Google stock caps best year since 2009 as AI bets carry Alphabet into 2026

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:50 ET Alphabet closed out 2025 up about 66%, its best year since 2009, as investors warmed to Google’s push into artificial intelligence. Shares rebounded from an April low of $144.70, and Wall Street has pointed to new search features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, built on its latest Gemini 3 model, as key to keeping users inside Google even as rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity gain traction. Barron’s The year-end run matters because big tech has set the tone for equity performance, and investors are pressing companies to show that
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Western Digital (WDC) stock slides after-hours into year-end as traders trim storage winners

Western Digital (WDC) stock slides after-hours into year-end as traders trim storage winners

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:43 ET — After-hours Western Digital Corp shares fell about 2.2% to $172.27 in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after swinging between $171.28 and $177.46 earlier in the day. The late-day dip matters because Western Digital has been a high-beta proxy for data-center spending, and year-end rebalancing can amplify moves when liquidity is thinner than usual. It also comes as investors try to separate short-term flow-driven trading from the bigger question for 2026: whether demand for high-capacity drives used in AI-heavy data centers stays strong enough to support pricing and margins. U.S. stocks ended the last
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Carvana stock slides after the bell as Wall Street ends 2025 lower — what investors watch next for CVNA

Carvana stock slides after the bell as Wall Street ends 2025 lower — what investors watch next for CVNA

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:28 ET — After-hours Carvana Co. shares slipped in after-hours trading on Wednesday, ending the final session of 2025 lower as investors wrapped up the year with light liquidity and a broad pullback in U.S. equities. The move matters now because Carvana has become a high-volatility consumer name, and year-end trading tends to magnify swings as funds rebalance and tax-driven positioning fades. Thin volumes can exaggerate price moves in stocks that have been heavily traded through the year. With U.S. markets shut on Thursday for New Year’s Day, investors are looking to Friday’s reopen for
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Lumentum stock slips in year-end trade; investors look to February results for next catalyst

Lumentum stock slips in year-end trade; investors look to February results for next catalyst

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:26 ET — After-hours Lumentum Holdings Inc. shares fell 0.7% to close at $368.59 on Wednesday and edged up 0.06% in after-hours trading. Investing The late-year dip matters because Lumentum has become a high-beta way for investors to express a view on data-center networking demand, where expectations can swing quickly on budgets and supply. With thin liquidity typical into year-end, small order imbalances can drive outsized moves, especially in momentum-linked names. The next clear catalyst is timing: investors are shifting focus from tape-driven trading to the next round of quarterly results and early-January economic releases
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PayPal stock slips in late trade as Wall Street wraps 2025; what investors watch next for PYPL

PayPal stock slips in late trade as Wall Street wraps 2025; what investors watch next for PYPL

NEW YORK, Dec 31, 2025, 6:41 PM ET — After-hours PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL) shares were down 1.2% at $58.38 in after-hours trading on Wednesday, when stocks changed hands outside the regular 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET session. The stock traded between $58.30 and $59.21 and saw about 13.0 million shares in volume, with the shares valued at roughly 13 times trailing earnings, a standard price-to-earnings measure. The move matters now because liquidity typically dries up into the final session of the year, leaving even modest flows to move prices. Investors also use the calendar turn to reset exposure
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Bank of America stock today: BAC slips after-hours as year-end selling and rate focus set up January catalysts

Bank of America stock today: BAC slips after-hours as year-end selling and rate focus set up January catalysts

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:01 ET — After-hours Bank of America shares dipped about 0.5% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, last near $55, after fluctuating between roughly $54.94 and $55.41 during the session. The year-end move matters because markets shut for New Year’s Day, giving investors a pause to reset expectations for rates and bank earnings before trading resumes in 2026. With the next round of big-bank results approaching, even small shifts in Treasury yields can move bank stocks because they influence lending margins and funding costs. In regular trading, Bank of America fell 0.5% to $55.00, alongside declines
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Sidus Space stock swings after-hours as $16.2 mln share sale and new 13G stake keep SIDU in focus

Sidus Space stock swings after-hours as $16.2 mln share sale and new 13G stake keep SIDU in focus

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 19:07 ET — After-hours Sidus Space Inc shares surged in year-end trading on Wednesday, closing up 31.9% at $3.52 and then sliding about 10.8% in after-hours to $3.14. The Nasdaq-listed stock ranged from $2.48 to $4.20 on the day as volume ran above 168 million shares. Yahoo Finance The sharp move matters because Sidus, like many early-stage space hardware and data companies, relies heavily on access to capital markets. When financing news hits, the stock can swing quickly as investors recalibrate near-term cash runway versus dilution. It also comes at a moment when traders are
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Cisco stock today: CSCO slips into the close as year-end trading thins, dividend date nears

Cisco stock today: CSCO slips into the close as year-end trading thins, dividend date nears

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 18:54 ET — After-hours Cisco Systems Inc shares slipped in the final trading session of 2025, closing down about 0.5% at $77.03 and holding steady in after-hours trading. The move came as Wall Street wrapped up the year with broad declines in thin holiday-week trade. The S&P 500 fell 0.74% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.76%, and U.S. markets are closed on Thursday for New Year’s Day, Reuters reported. “It’s perfectly fine in any bull market to have moments of cost,” said Giuseppe Sette, co-founder and president of Reflexivity, pointing to profit-taking when liquidity is low.
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Walmart stock slips after hours as fresh insider filings and app outage hit the tape — what’s next for WMT

Walmart stock slips after hours as fresh insider filings and app outage hit the tape — what’s next for WMT

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 5:58 PM ET — After-hours Walmart Inc. shares were down about 0.5% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, extending a modest decline into the close of the year’s final session as investors weighed fresh insider disclosures and a recent digital outage. The timing matters because Walmart heads into 2026 after a strong 2025 run, leaving investors sensitive to any signals that management is trimming exposure or that key systems are vulnerable during peak shopping windows. The broader backdrop was also unsupportive. Wall Street’s major indexes ended 2025 lower in thin holiday trading, and “I do not
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Stock Market Today

Blackstone (BX) stock price rebounds after Sabre deal as jobs, CPI loom next week

Blackstone (BX) stock price rebounds after Sabre deal as jobs, CPI loom next week

7 February 2026
New York, February 6, 2026, 21:13 EST — Market closed. Blackstone Inc. (BX) shares closed up 2.25% at $129.69 on Friday, after a sharp drop the day before and a bruising week for the sector. The stock was last at $129.65 in late after-hours trading. (StockAnalysis) The swing matters because Blackstone sits in the crosshairs of a wider rethink of private-market managers. Investors have been quick to punish anything tied to leverage, credit risk and tech exposure, then just as quick to buy back when rates and risk appetite settle. That push-pull has been driven in part by an AI-linked
Verizon stock price snaps 7-day run as consumer chief exit sharpens focus on turnaround

Verizon stock price snaps 7-day run as consumer chief exit sharpens focus on turnaround

7 February 2026
Verizon shares fell 1.7% to $46.31 Friday, ending a seven-session rally and closing about 2.7% below Thursday’s one-year high. The dip follows news that consumer chief Sowmyanarayan Sampath will step down, with Alfonso Villanueva named interim head. Verizon has climbed 16% since January 29 amid strong subscriber growth and a $25 billion buyback plan.
Cisco stock jumps 3% near $85 as UBS sticks with Buy ahead of Feb. 11 earnings

Cisco stock jumps 3% near $85 as UBS sticks with Buy ahead of Feb. 11 earnings

7 February 2026
Cisco shares rose 3% to $84.82 Friday, nearing $85 ahead of fiscal Q2 results due Feb. 11. UBS maintained a Buy rating and $90 target, citing strong product order growth and data-center demand. Investors are watching AI-related spending and U.S. economic data that could affect rates. Peers Fortinet, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks also gained.
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