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Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq fall with Wall Street awaiting expected Fed rate cut

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Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq fall with Wall Street awaiting expected Fed rate cut

US stocks fell on Monday as Wall Street headed into a pivotal week dominated by the Federal Reserve’s final policy meeting of 2025.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped 0.6%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 0.6% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) declined by 0.4%. The laggard start to the trading week comes on the heels of closing gains for stocks on Friday.

Markets are on the lookout for risks to almost-total confidence that the Fed will cut interest rates at its two-day policy meeting, which starts on Tuesday. After a recent surge in optimism, traders now see an 88% probability of a cut in Wednesday’s decision, compared with 67% odds a month ago, per CME FedWatch.

A tame reading on September PCE consumer inflation kept that conviction alive on Friday, buoying appetite for risk and helping spur back-to-back weekly gains for the major gauges.

The consensus has emerged despite a split among policymakers, in part over whether to focus on the labor market or inflation — which some at the Fed worry could still be too high. But backing from influential officials for the third cut of this year has cemented bets, though the prospects for 2026 are seen as less certain.

Given this, this week’s raft of economic data will be closely watched, with the labor market in the spotlight after a mixed bag of readings last week. The postponed October report on JOLTS job openings finally arrives on Tuesday to shed light on hiring activity, layoffs, and the pace at which workers are quitting.

Meanwhile, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) stock surged after Paramount (PSKY) launched a $108 billion hostile bid for the media giant. The last-minute move shakes up plans for Netflix (NFLX) to acquire the company.

On the earnings side, Oracle (ORCL) and Adobe (ADBE) quarterly results will be in focus on Wednesday, while Broadcom (AVGO) and Costco (COST) headline the proceedings on Thursday.

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    Treasury yields should fall as Fed cuts further: UBS

    UBS strategists believe Treasury yields should fall further as the Federal Reserve is expected to continue cutting interest rates at its December meeting.

    “We maintain the view that government bond yields will move lower, and we forecast the yield on 10-year Treasuries to fall to 3.75% over the next six months,” Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, CIO Americas and global head of equities at UBS Global Wealth Management, wrote in a note on Monday.

    “With returns coming from a mix of yield and capital appreciation, we continue to see value in holding quality fixed income in a portfolio,” she added.

    The market widely expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by 25 basis points this Wednesday, despite persistent inflation, as the labor market shows signs of weakening.

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    Tesla stock drops as new Morgan Stanley analyst downgrades shares

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    Nvidia-backed CoreWeave sees shares sink on $2 billion private debt offering

    CoreWeave (CRWV) shares fell nearly 7% Monday as the Nvidia-backed (NVDA) AI cloud provider said it plans to issue $2 billion worth of senior convertible notes set to mature in 2031, raising the risk that the stock’s value could be diluted.

    Investors buy senior convertible notes, a type of debt, from a company that they have the option to convert into shares if the stock rises above a certain value. When a company issues new shares —or increases the number of outstanding shares — it can reduce the value of preexisting ones, “diluting” them.

    CoreWeave said in its announcement that it will use the proceeds of its debt offering in part to buy financial products called capped call options from banks, allowing the company to receive a payout when its stock rises in order to offset the dilution.

    CoreWeave is one of the so-called “neoclouds” — new, AI-focused cloud firms — seeded by Nvidia that rival the AI chip giant’s other Big Tech firms.

    CoreWeave’s roughly $14 billion in short- and long-term debt, partly backed by its depreciating store of Nvidia’s AI chips, has raised concerns for investors worried over the rising role of debt in the AI data center build-out, as the return on investments in AI infrastructure is hotly debated on Wall Street.

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    Warner Bros. Discovery shares surge on report of hostile bid by Paramount

    Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) stock climbed more than 7% in early trading Monday as Paramount (PSKY) launched a hostile bid to buy the media giant.

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  • Structure Therapeutics stock soars on positive results for its GLP-1 pill

    Structure Therapeutics (GPCR) stock rocketed 72% higher just after the open following the biotech company’s positive obesity pill results from a mid-stage study. The stock rose as much as 40% in premarket trading.

    The company announced that its oral GLP-1 pill, aleniglipron, reduced weight loss by 11.3% in patients in a 36-week Phase 2b study. Structure also said that 10.4% of patients discontinued treatment after adverse events at the 120mg dose level, while no patients discontinued treatment at a lower 2.5 mg dose.

    The results pave the way for Structure to advance its GLP-1 pill to late-stage trials in mid-2026.

    “The topline results presented today show that aleniglipron is differentiated and delivered clinically meaningful, competitive and dose-dependent weight loss with a safety profile appropriate for chronic use in a disease that impacts millions of people,” the company’s CEO, Raymond Stevens, said in a statement. “For the higher doses, the observed weight loss data at 36 weeks with no weight loss plateau is potentially best-in-class for oral small molecule GLP1s.”

    Pharma companies have been racing to develop a pill version of the injectable GLP-1 drugs, as pills are cheaper to produce and are likely preferred by patients. Novo Nordisk (NVO), a leader in the space, has already applied for FDA approval of its pill, while Eli Lilly (LLY) is expected to apply for FDA approval by the end of this year.

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    Stocks steady at the market open

    US stocks steadied at the market open on Monday following back-to-back weekly gains for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) as investors looked ahead to the Fed’s policy meeting this week.

    The S&P 500 and the Dow were roughly flat, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose 0.3%.

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  • IBM to buy Confluent for $11 billion

    IBM (IBM) announced it has officially entered an agreement to buy data streaming platform Confluent (CFLT) for $11 billion.

    IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for the company as it seeks to rekindle momentum in its cloud software business and take a piece of the AI applications market. Confluent stock traded above $23 per share as of Friday’s close.

    Confluent stock soared nearly 30% following the announcement, while IBM shares declined about 1%.

    “IBM and Confluent together will enable enterprises to deploy generative and agentic AI better and faster by providing trusted communication and data flow between environments, applications and APIs,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said. “With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.”

  • Crude oil falls as traders look ahead to Fed meeting, Ukraine peace talks stall

    Crude oil slipped in early morning trading on Monday as traders anticipated a likely interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve this week and as peace talks between Russia and Ukraine stalled.

    West Texas Intermediate futures (CL=F) fell 1.2% to trade below $60 per barrel while Brent crude (BZ=F), the international benchmark, also dropped 1.2% to $62.

    Oil prices dropped after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that negotiators remain divided on the Donbas territory in peace talks brokered by the US.

    The steady selling also comes as traders price in 89.6% odds that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by 25 basis points at its policy meeting this week, according to CME Group’s FedWatch.

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    Premarket trending tickers: Carvana, Marvell, Rivian

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    Marvell Technology (MRVL) stock dropped 6% in premarket trading on Monday. Stephens analyst Melissa Roberts expected Marvell to join S&P 500 index (^GSPC); however, it was not included.

    Rivian (RIVN) stock fell 3% during premarket trading. The fall follows news that the company will be recalling 35,000 vehicles due to a damaged seat belt pretensioner cable.

  • Buffett’s investment right-hand man to leave Berkshire for JPMorgan

    Investment manager Todd Combs is leaving Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) as Warren Buffett prepares his own departure at the end of the year.

    Combs — seen as an investment protege of Buffett’s, per the FT — will take up a role at JPMorgan Chase (JPM), where he is already a board member. He is also stepping away as CEO of Geico, Berkshire said in a statement on Monday.

    “[Combs] has resigned to accept an interesting and important job at JPMorgan,” Buffett said in the statement. “Todd made many great hires at GEICO and broadened its horizons. JPMorgan, as usually is the case, has made a good decision.”

    Berkshire is reshuffling its leadership ranks as it adjusts to losing Combs. Geico COO Nancy Pierce will take over the helm at Geico, the insurance giant that is a key part of the Buffett-built conglomerate.

    The news comes just weeks after Buffett said he was entering a “quiet period” before handing over the CEO position to Greg Abel in 2026.

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