Stock Market Weekend Update - 12|28|25

Welcome to the weekend updates

Last week was a shortened week due to Christmas holiday and resulting in very low Volumes throughout the week due to the holiday season. Overall, it was a quiet week. However, the stock market managed to go up for the week but still many of the AI stocks had a lackluster week. Let's see what happens this week - another short one. This is how the indexes performed last week:

S&P 500: +1.4% weekly, closed at 6,929.94 (new intraday all-time high 6,945.77).

Dow Jones: +1.2% weekly, closed at 48,710.97.

Nasdaq: +1.2% weekly, closed at 23,593.10.


Economic Report last week

Strong Q3 GDP growth expanded at a 4.3% annualized pace, reinforcing confidence in economic growth but potentially tempering expectations for rapid Federal Reserve interest rate cuts in the near future.


Nvidia's (NVDA) announced $20 billion deal for Groq's AI inference tech, acquiring talent and assets to boost its AI capabilities. This was taken positively by Wall Street and stock went u last Friday.

Stocks to watch
NVDA, TSLA, AVGO, GOOG, META, MSFT, PLTR, AMD, CRWV, NBIS, APLD, CVNA, SOXL, TQQQ.

What to Expect
This week will be another shortened week due to New Year holiday. The stock market will be closed on January1. There are 2.5 trading days left for this year and January 2 will be the only one trading day in this week for 2026. We all can hope for the best and keep our fingers crossed. I am putting together my January 2026 blog where I will provide my thoughts about 2026 and list of stocks that I like. Also, I will conduct a Q&A session on January 1, for about 30-40 minutes. Stay tuned!

NOTE: I will not be able to publish my weekends update for next 3 weeks or so due to some traveling. 

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