Here are the most important news investors need to start their trading day:
1. Inventory
The final two days of this trading year will help determine how strong stocks will be in 2024. U.S. futures were lower on Monday, following losses on Friday in major stock indexes. Entering this week, S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average They grew by 25% and 14% respectively, marking the best year since 2021. Nasdaq has risen 31%. Markets will be closed on Wednesday for New Year’s Day. Follow real-time market updates.
2. Jimmy Carter dies
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks to the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on April 28, 2019. , has been teaching Sunday school regularly at the church since 1981.
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former president of the united states Jimmy Carter dies 100 years old.th Carter was elected to one term as president in 1976. After leaving office, he led a colorful life, campaigning for human rights around the world and working to build homes for those in need. After a president dies, the stock market typically closes for a day in mourning.
3. South Korea plane crash
A Jeju Air flight crashed in South Korea, killing 179 people. President Choi Sang-mok Order emergency safety inspection The country’s aviation system. Officials from South Korea’s Ministry of Transport also stated that they would conduct a “comprehensive special inspection” of the South Korean Ministry of Transport. boeing company The accident aircraft model was a B737-800 aircraft. Boeing shares fall Follow the news. It’s unclear what caused the crash.
4. Google gets ready
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, delivers an artificial intelligence speech at the Bruegel Think Tank Conference in Brussels, Belgium, on January 20, 2020.
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Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai is gearing up for a critical year in 2025. He told staff ‘the stakes are high’ As the company prepares to face tougher competition and more regulatory skepticism around the world. His comments come a year after Google made strides in the artificial intelligence race and officials in the United States and Europe moved to curb what they called anticompetitive behavior. Pichai acknowledged to employees that the company faced “scrutiny,” which he said was related to Google’s “scale and success.”
5. Trump’s views on TikTok
President-elect Donald Trump wants to put the brakes on the TikTok ban. he Asking the Supreme Court for a stay of execution The law would ban the video-sharing app from being sold in the United States on January 19 if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not sell the platform to a U.S. company. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the law on January 10.
– CNBC’s Samantha Subin, Martin Steinberg, Yeo Boon Ping, Jenni Reid, Jennifer Elias and NBC News’ Daniel Barnes and Raquel Coronell Uribe contributed to this report.
