Wall Street is on watch for more records as it returns from the Christmas holiday for a single session ahead of the weekend.

The S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq are all within touching distance of record highs, having surged through 2025, with U.S. president Donald Trump predicing a 2026 “boom.” However, as traders brace for the "biggest merger in history, the $3 trillion bitcoin and crypto market could be flashing a warning sign to stocks.

The first nation to achieve quantum supremacy doesn’t just win a science prize. It wins the ability to break every encryption system. Let me tell you something that should keep you up tonight. Somewhere in a Google lab,

The benchmark S&P 500 hit its latest record, setting up Wall Street to ride into the Christmas holiday on a high note.

Right now, Alphabet is in the midst of riding a virtuous cycle, given its vertical integration edge. That's why it's a stock to hold through any market crash.

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As the year draws to a close, stock market analysts and pundits are making their predictions for 2026. But how good are these stock market predictions? Well, let’s look at some projections FactSet gave last year about 2025.

Although both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are trading marginally higher today, 9 out of the 11 stock-market sectors were actually trading lower on Friday. Information technology and materials were the only two sectors seeing solid performance today.