On a day without European references, where the stock markets have remained closed, Wall Street has ended with soft sales and few movements this Friday (Dow Jones: -0.04%; S&P 500: -0.03%; Nasdaq: -0.09%), after the S&P 500 will renew historical highs in the last session before Christmas. In this way, the US markets have closed a bullish weekwith stocks recovering from early December turbulence driven by weakness in technology stocks due to concerns linked to artificial intelligence (AI) spending. Thus, during this week, the S&P 500 It has accumulated an increase of 1.4%, which represents its fourth weekly advance in five weeks. He Dow Jones and the Nasdaq They have also advanced 1.2% each. Looking ahead to the new year, investors are waiting to see when the Federal Reserve (Fed) could cut interest rates further. Added to this is that they are waiting for Donald Trump to nominate a president of the organization to replace Jerome Powell. «Today we finished a short week with low volumes typical of these dates. The year is practically over and there are only three/four sessions left. the balances have been frankly positive for the stock markets«, point out from the Analysis Department of Bankinter. They believe that «the balance will be rather positive and will continue to be supported by the good feeling that we saw after the American GDP data, with rising stock markets and a decline in the Bund’s IRR.» This Friday’s day did not include relevant macroeconomic data. On a business level, Sanofi has acquired hepatitis B vaccine maker Dynavax Technologies for $2.2 billion. It will pay $15.5 per share in cash, a 39% premium. The company plans to close this acquisition in the first quarter of 2026. On the other hand, Nvidia has signed an agreement with the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Groq to acquire your technology licenses for 20 billion dollars in cash. It is the chipmaker’s largest operation to date. Furthermore, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas announced that he plans to meet this Sunday with his counterpart in the US, Donald Trump. «You can decide long before the New Year»he assured. «We didn’t waste a single day. We have agreed to a meeting at the highest level with President Trump soon«, he published on his ‘X’ account after the latest round of talks between Ukrainian and American negotiators.
OTHER MARKETS
In other markets, the euro It has been quoted at $1,177. Crude oil has fallen 2.5%: the Brent is trading at $60.71, while the WTI it does so at $56.78. He gold has advanced to $4,557 and the silver has reached 78 dollars. The performance of US 10-year bond has relaxed to 4.134%. He bitcoin It has fallen to $87,388 and Ethereum is down to $2,921.
