00:00all right futures under slight pressure here the day after christmas for friday december 26th
00:14although they are up off of the lows and very close to unchanged s&p futures are actually down
00:200.02 percent dow futures are down 0.01 or excuse me 0.09 percent and the nasdaq actually turned green
00:30that's higher by 0.05 so initially when we started the pre-market here today all of the indices were
00:37down very very slightly on very very light volume they appear as if they've come up off the lows
00:42the nasdaq the first to go red to green here let's take a look at some cues from last session
00:49consumer staples real estate and utility stocks recorded the biggest gains on the half day on
00:57wednesday while energy stocks bucked the trend to close lower that's notable because a lot of us
01:03suspect energy is actually going to be a theme in 2026 the new york stock exchange closed early at
01:111 p.m on wednesday and remained closed yesterday for the christmas holiday on the economic data front
01:17the u.s initial jobless claims declined by 10 000 from the previous week to 214 000 in the week ending
01:24december 20th compared to market estimates of 223 000 meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond yielded 4.15
01:32percent and the two-year bond was at 3.51 percent now we have several stocks in focus here for you
01:40today as we close the year out first one here is going to be nvidia ticker nvda shares rose 0.58
01:46after it announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with ai chip startup grok that's g-r-o-q
01:54not g-r-o-k which you might know from twitter or x grok g-r-o-q which was founded in 2016 grok has
02:04entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with nvidia covering its inference technology so some more
02:10partnership there for ai the next stock on our list here is going to be dynavax and this is a
02:16carryover from wednesday ticker dvax shares surged 38.19 following sanofi's announcement to acquire
02:25the vaccine company so once again no trade here but if you were holding dvax uh your time has come
02:32because that premium has been paid and the stock is up and higher on that takeout the next stock on
02:38our list here is going to be sober safe this is one of our smaller movers the ticker is sobr it
02:44dropped 15.61 percent after announcing definitive agreements to issue 1.29 million shares of common
02:52stock at 155 per share and associated warrants in a private placement see if that can catch any type
02:59of bounce here today the next stock is going to be davis commodities the ticker on this one is dtck
03:06and shares jumped 7.19 percent after reporting revenue of 95 million for the first six months
03:13that ended june 30th that was up 42.1 percent from the 66.9 million a year earlier according to the
03:20company's statement the last stock on our list here is going to be bio haven and the ticker on this one
03:26is bhvn shares slumped 14 plus percent after it disclosed that its phase two proof of concept
03:35study for bhv 7 000 in major depressive order failed to meet its primary endpoint next step here on bhvn
03:45would be to check what else this company has in its pipeline but on the back of this news here we are
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