Final 2025 FOMC meeting minutes released 30/12/2025

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Market wrap:

• U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, capping off the final full trading week of the year on a cautious note. The S&P 500 slipped 0.35%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 249 points, or 0.51%. Selling pressure was concentrated in some of 2025’s standout technology winners. Artificial intelligence plays retreated, with Nvidia down more than 1% and Palantir Technologies sliding 2.4%. Oracle fell 1.3%, while Tesla dropped more than 3%. The move suggests investors are growing wary of excesses building around the AI trade.
• Weakness in materials compounded the decline, with precious-metals producer Newmont sinking 5.6% after silver futures posted their worst session since 2021. Although all 11 sectors of the S&P 500 remain higher for the year, real estate continues to lag, up just 0.5% in 2025. Looking ahead, markets will parse fresh home-price data due Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET, followed by the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December meeting at 2 p.m. U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for the New Year’s Day holiday, bringing the curtain down on trading for 2025.

Analysts eye rebound in 2025 laggards

• Another strong year for U.S. equities masked sharp losses beneath the surface. The S&P 500 is up about 19% in 2025, extending a powerful rebound from the 2022 selloff, but gains have been uneven and increasingly concentrated in a handful of mega-cap names. Several sectors posted solid advances, led by communications and information technology, while real estate and consumer staples lagged well behind. The index’s market-cap weighting has amplified that divide, leaving investors heavily exposed to a small group of stocks even as a meaningful share of constituents finished the year in the red.
• Roughly one-third of the S&P 500 declined in 2025, and more than 50 stocks fell at least 20%. Yet analysts are growing more constructive on a subset of those laggards. Consensus price targets compiled by LSEG point to potential rebounds of 20% to as much as 65% over the next 12 months for companies that retain majority buy ratings despite this year’s selloff. The message heading into 2026 is familiar: while index-level returns look impressive, dispersion remains wide. For investors willing to look beyond the market’s biggest winners, Wall Street sees plenty of room for catch-up trades in the year ahead.

Stocks on the move:

• Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE): Shares plunged more than 40% after the company said its bone-disease drug setrusumab failed to meet expectations in two clinical trials. Ultragenyx said neither study met its primary endpoint of reducing annualized fracture rates versus placebo or existing treatments
• Newmont (NEM), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX): Mining stocks slid as gold and silver prices retreated. Newmont fell more than 5%, while Freeport-McMoRan dropped about 2%. The Global X Silver Miners ETF (SIL) sank over 4% after silver briefly topped $80 an ounce overnight before tumbling more than 7%. Gold prices declined more than 4%
• Energy stocks: Shares of energy producers advanced as oil prices climbed more than 2%, with investors weighing potential peace talks in Ukraine against risks of supply disruptions in the Middle East. Diamondback Energy (FANG) and Devon Energy (DVN) rose nearly 2%, helping the energy sector lead gains in the S&P 500
• DigitalBridge (DBRG): The data-center-focused investment firm jumped 10% after SoftBank said it agreed to acquire the company in a $4 billion deal

Watchlist: NVDA, AVGO, ORCL, COIN, NEM, DVN, TSLA, GOOGL

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