US Stocks Kick Off 2025 On A Positive Note; Cryptocurrencies Rally As Analysts Eye Blue-Chip Momentum; GameStop Soars Premarket With Roaring Kitty's Viral Comeback- Top Headlines Today While US Slept

US Markets­­­­­­­­

• US Stocks To Open Higher In The First Trading Session Of 2025: Analyst Says History Favors Rebound After Year-End Dip
• Analyst Says It’s ‘Unusual’ For ‘Santa Claus Rally’ To Fizzle Out, But That Was The Case Last Year Too: ‘Anything Is Possible’ On Wall Street
• S&P 500 Surges 23% In 2024, But Greed Index Remains In ‘Fear’ Zone
• S&P 500’s Record-Breaking 2024 Ends With Four-Day Slump — History Suggests Bullish Days Ahead

Crypto

• Cardano Price Surges 13% On Thursday: What Is Driving ADA Momentum?
• Blockchain Company HIVE Digital Achieves 47% Hashrate Growth, Secures Low-Cost Energy For Mining In Sweden
• MicroStrategy Surges Nearly 6% In Pre-Market On Thursday: What’s Going On?+
• Shytoshi Kusama Clears The Air On Shiba Inu Role, Memecoin Rivalry: ‘Our Drive Was To Overtake Dogecoin’
• Peter Thiel’s Bubble Theory Gains Relevance As Bitcoin Hovers Around $95K: ‘Extremely Hard To Define’
• Elon Musk’s Return To Original X Avatar Causes Coin Themed On ‘Kekius Maximus’ To Crash 90% — Frog-Themed PEPE Slips As Well
• Roaring Kitty’s Rick James-Themed Post Triggers 300% Rally In GameStop Coin, Kitty-Labeled Cryptos Spike
• Terra Classic Token Spikes After Terraform Labs Co-Founder Do Kwon Extradited To The US From Montenegro
• Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin Begin New Year On A Healthy Note: Analyst Says This Blue Chip Crypto Can Witness ‘Good Amount Of Action’ In Early 2025

US Economy

• Gold Prices To Climb 7% In 2025 Amid Trump’s Return To White House And Geopolitical Tensions: ‘Momentum Is Taking Back Over’

World Economy

• 2025 Kicks Off With Gains In Dollar And Crude Oil, Asia Markets Mixed, Europe Dips – Global Markets Today While Us Slept

Tech

• GameStop Shares Are Rising In Thursday Premarket As Roaring Kitty Returns With Viral Post
• Alibaba Leverages Scale and Deep Pockets to Slash AI LLM Prices To Gain Market Share
• Why MicroStrategy Shares Are Trading Higher By Over 5%; Here Are 20 Stocks Moving Premarket
• Synaptics Teams Up With Google To Accelerate Development Of AI Devices For IoT: Details
• UBS Cuts iPhone Sales Forecast For December Amid Stiff Competition From Rivals, Maintains Neutral Rating
• Apple Discounts iPhone 16 Prices In China By Up To $68.5 As It Battles Huawei’s Resurgence In The Country
• Alibaba Sells $1.58 Billion Stake In Sun Art Retail, Refocusing On Core E-Commerce Strategy
• Nvidia’s Investments In Elon Musk’s xAI, Perplexity, OpenAI, And Other Startups Crossed $1 Billion Mark In 2024
• Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, And More: Tech Moguls Post Upbeat New Year Greetings: ‘Have A Good Feeling About 2025’
• Broadcom Thrives with 114% Stock Surge in AI Boom, While Intel Faces Steep Decline
• SoFi Tech Downgraded Over Valuation Concerns: Stock Priced Three Times Its Peers

Electric Vehicle

• EV Price War Heats Up As Chinese Automakers Extend Subsidies: Details
• Tesla Shares Rise In Thursday Premarket Despite Recent Cybertruck Explosion Outside Trump’s Las Vegas Hotel: Here’s Why    
• Tesla Adds 11,000 Superchargers In 2024, Takes Total Count To Over 65,000
• Tesla’s Cybertruck All-Wheel Drive Now Eligible For $7,500 EV Tax Credit
• Tesla Rival BYD Marks 50% Growth In December Passenger Vehicle Sales, Likely To Trump Tesla In Q4 BEV Sales Yet Again
• US-Listed Chinese EV Startups Clock Delivery Growth In December: Li Auto Tops Charts, Mona M03 Spurs XPeng, Nio’s Onvo Breaches 10,000 Monthly Delivery Milestone
• Tesla To Deploy First V4 Superchargers In China By 2025: Report
• Battery Electric Vehicle Sales To Surge 30%, Capture 17% of Global Light Vehicle Market By 2025: Report

Consumer

• Constellation Brands Gears Up For Q3 Print; Here Are The Recent Forecast Changes From Wall Street’s Most Accurate Analysts

Communication

• TikTok Fined $10 Million In Venezuela, Funds To Be Used To Compensate Victims Of Deadly Viral Challenges

Industrial

• This L3Harris Technologies Analyst Is No Longer Bullish; Here Are Top 5 Downgrades For Thursday

Healthcare

• Chinese Cancer Drug Developer Hutchmed Sharpens R&D Focus, Divests Non-Core JV For Over $600 Million
• Neumora Therapeutics Depression Drug Fails In First Of Three Pivotal Phase 3 Trials

General

• Robinhood Rings In New Year With $2.5 Million Bitcoin, Dogecoin Giveaway: CEO Vlad Tenev Celebrates Customer Loyalty
• Explosives Unearthed Following Deadly New Year’s Day Attack In New Orleans: Report
• Jim Cramer Says Year-End Selloff Triggered By Fear Of Higher Capital Gains Taxes: Here Are The Rates Listed By IRS

Space

• SpaceX Says Starlink Now Has Over 4.6 Million Customers: 1.6 Million New Users Added In 7 Months

Energy

• Top 3 Energy Stocks That Could Lead To Your Biggest Gains This Month
• Nova Minerals’ $6.73 Million Snow Lake Sale Fuels Debt Reduction And Alaskan Gold Ambitions: Details
• Kosmos Energy Ignites First Gas At West Africa LNG Project: Details

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