S&P 500 Futures Edge Higher Ahead of CPI Report — Daily Trends Digest

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Today's consumer price index report could be the decisive test for the market's recovery, an analyst said.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Anthropic PBC and some of its shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $90.4 billion in an IPO and private placement, in a bid to make history as the first frontier artificial intelligence lab to go public and exceed the size of SpaceX’s record-setting first-time share sale.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Cameroon is preparing for its first parliamentary and municipal elections in almost seven years, with President Paul Biya facing opposition anger over a disputed presidential vote and growing questions about his succession.”

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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Consumer adoption of AI agents is lagging for lack of trust and usefulness”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “On semiconductors, HSBC Private Bank's Global CIO Willem Sels says, "in terms of delays and in thinking about how different parts of the stack react to the delays, therefore do we change our positioning? And I think we do. We have done so: we are much more in the cloud and in…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump probably won’t change his approach to trade, according to France’s top trade official, even after the Republican Party suffered a massive collapse in the US midterm elections last week.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Angola’s eurobonds led the retreat among frontier and emerging market oil-producers after Brent crude tumbled below $90 a barrel for the first time since August.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Blackstone Inc. will acquire a 15.57% stake in mid-sized Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance Ltd. for about 50 billion rupees ($532 million), deepening its push into the country’s financial sector as global investors increasingly seek exposure to its fast-growing economy.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Diplomatic efforts by US, Iran are pushing Brent crude lower.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “A Bank of America analyst says Costco's October proved one thing about its shoppers. The stock may already reflect it.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Jensen Huang spent decades building Nvidia. Now, he’s embroiled in a scandal after admitting to an affair with a woman who US intelligence reportedly suspect was spying for China, throwing into turmoil a company at the center of the US-China AI chip battle. (Source: Bloomberg)”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Georgian co-founder Simon Chong sees the future of Canadian technology inside a 95-year-old Campbell’s Soup factory in Toronto.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The US is indicating Russia’s strategic demands are on the table.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bloomberg understands Nvidia’s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International, questioning whether the Trump administration played a role in detaining an executive from the Singapore-based firm who’s now at the…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Casas, jardines, campos de fútbol y salas comunitarias se convierten en alojamientos en Luján, donde la visita del papa León XIV abre una oportunidad para ganar dinero extra.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Lucía Rodríguez never imagined strangers would pay to sleep in her modest three-bedroom home an hour west of Buenos Aires.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The Emirates President said the carrier has been resilient and they are feeling the impact from the cost of fuel and supply chain hurdles more so than the Iran war in the region. Tim Clark spoke exclusively with Bloomberg’s Benedikt Kammel from Berlin. (Source: Bloomberg)”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The Gulf Cooperation Council, a bloc of US allies including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, approved a joint forward-command center, signaling their desire to deepen military integration in the wake of the Iran war.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The bigger question is whether SpaceX's Texas site can carry that load.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “It comes in 24 colors.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak is set to leave prison for house arrest as soon as Tuesday after a court cleared the way for his release, a development that prompted the resignation of a senior minister and put fresh pressure on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The popular family SUV's latest numbers reveal a surprising ownership-cost gap.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “These earrings are "comfortable enough to wear to bed."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “SoftBank Group Corp. reported its first net loss in almost two years after the tech investor swallowed a $3.7 billion writedown over its US data-center projects and AI valuations dipped around the world.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Aluminum fell in London, tracking a slump in Shanghai futures, on a report that Chinese inventories have started to expand.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A powerful rebound in US stocks ran out of steam after Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller backed an interest-rate hike in December just hours before Tuesday’s inflation report.”

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Excerpt from GitHub: “Public repository for Agent Skills”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “A collection of projects designed to help developers quickly get started with building deployable applications using the Claude API”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. A general purpose physics simulator.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “The personal finance app for everyone (by everyone)”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Configure and automate Home Assistant with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Browser automation CLI for AI agents”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks”

Excerpt from GitHub: “A batteries-included framework for building web apps”