Kevin Warsh, a former member of the regulator's board of governors, has topped the list of candidates to become the next chairman of the US Federal Reserve, President Donald Trump said in an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-says-he-is-leaning-toward-warsh-or-hassett-to-lead-the-fed-34a200e5?mod=hp_lead_pos1">interview with </a>The Wall Street Journal. He said he was leaning toward either this contender or another favorite, Kevin Hassett, who heads the National Economic Council.

Trump has named a new favorite to head the US Fed

Fundstrat's Tom Lee has no doubts about the US stock market's ability to rise again after three consecutive years of gains

Wall Street's most accurate forecaster predicted a 12% rise in the S&amp;P 500 by the end of 2026

Oracle Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Photronics, Inc.

Marvell Technology, Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

New York Morning: Oracle may wake up the "bears"

ASML Holding N.V.

SAP SE

SoftBank Group Corp.

The technology sector in Europe and Asia was also pressured by weak sales and earnings figures from US-based Oracle

Equity and cryptocurrency markets declined amid disagreement at the Fed on the rate trajectory

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation

Meta is moving from open-source to creating a closed commercial model of Avocado and rebuilding internal teams under the personal leadership of Mark Zuckerberg. Cisco shares, meanwhile, riding a wave of renewed interest in infrastructure technologies, surpassed their dotcom-era highs for the first time. These and other topics are in our review of key events for the morning of December 11.

Main by morning: Meta goes to closed models, Cisco updates dotcom-era maxima

Fed committee members expect only one round of monetary policy easing in 2026

The Fed has cut rates for the third time in a row. What happens next?

GameStop Corp.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Microsoft Corporation

Morning in New York: investors expect restrained steps from the Fed

Last year's Oppenheimer forecast for U.S. stocks proved prophetic, what will happen next year?

The investment bank that predicted the U.S. rally has given the S&amp;P 500 its most bullish outlook for 2026

Netflix, Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Broadcom Inc.

Eli Lilly and Company

Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Morning in New York: quotes drifting ahead of the Fed meeting

Silver and copper are hitting records due to tight supply, inflows into ETFs and expectations of structural demand growth. Robinhood buys Indonesian broker and licensed crypto trader to enter the Indonesian market. On these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of December 8.

Highlights for the morning: silver and copper break records, Robinhood enters Indonesia

Wall Street is expecting a quarter percentage point cut in the US interest rate during this week's main event - the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of the US Federal Reserve, which will end with a press conference by Fed chief Jerome Powell. Powell is expected to undertake a so-called hawkish rate cut: with no hint of further monetary policy easing in early 2026, Barron's <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/fed-rate-decision-adobe-oracle-costco-broadcom-c2d28c54?mod=RTA#:~:text=But%20Powell%20is%20expected%20to%20deliver%20a%20hawkish%20cut%2C%20meaning%20he%20won%E2%80%99t%20signal%20any%20rate%20cuts%20early%20next%20year.">writes</a>.

Fed rate and Oracle and Adobe reports: what investors need to know this week

US core inflation rose by 2.8% in September