<div id="readability-page-1">Following Wall Street's third-straight day of losses, futures on all three major benchmarks are quietly higher ahead of the open. As the last trading day of the year gets underway, the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq Composite (IXIC), and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are all headed for monthly, quarterly, and yearly gains. Elsewhere, this morning's data showed jobless claims came in at 199,000 for last week, below analyst estimates of 220,000, while silver prices are sharply lower. <ul> <li>The best options plays of 2025, per Schaeffer's Quantitative Analyst Rocky White.</li> <li>Steel stock poised for even more highs next month. </li> <li>Plus, Hyatt revises outlook; NVDA completes INTC investment; and streaming wars continue. </li> </ul> <img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://schaeffers-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/images/default-source/schaeffers-cdn-images/2025/december/ov/futures-december31.png/query-c2Z2cnNuPTVkZGJiZTA2XzI?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="535" height="185" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://schaeffers-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/images/default-source/schaeffers-cdn-images/2025/december/ov/futures-december31.png/query-c2Z2cnNuPTVkZGJiZTA2XzI"/> <h2>5 Things You Need to Know Today</h2> <ol> <li>The Cboe Options Exchange saw over 1.3 million call contracts and 681,395 put contracts exchanged on Tuesday. The single-session equity put/call ratio fell to 0.51, while the 21-day moving average remained at 0.58.</li> <li>Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE:H) stock is down 0.4% premarket, paring earlier losses after the company updates its 2025 outlook due to Hurricane Melissa. H is up 4.2% year-to-date heading into today. </li> <li>Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) stock is up 1.1% in electronic trading, after Nvidia (NVDA) completed its $5 billion equity investment in the tech name. Since the start of the year, the equity is up 86%. </li> <li>Warner Bros Discovery Inc (NASDAQ:WBD) stock is down 0.6% before the bell, after reports that the entertainment company plans to reject Paramount's latest takeover bid. Year to date, WBD is outperforming with a 173.8% lead. </li> <li>Fed meeting minutes and more coming up this week. </li> </ol> <img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://schaeffers-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/images/default-source/schaeffers-cdn-images/2025/december/ov/newbuzzdec31.jpg/query-c2Z2cnNuPTQ3ZGJiZTA2XzI?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="820" height="231" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://schaeffers-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/images/default-source/schaeffers-cdn-images/2025/december/ov/newbuzzdec31.jpg/query-c2Z2cnNuPTQ3ZGJiZTA2XzI"/> <h2>China's Manufacturing PMI Rises Above Expectations</h2> Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was the only major player open in Asia today, falling 0.9%. China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) saw a December lift to 50.1, above forecasts and higher than November’s reading. Japan’s Nikkei, China’s Shanghai Composite, and South Korea’s Kospi were all closed for holiday. Open for a half day for the New Year’s Eve holiday, markets in Europe are trading mixed, with defense stocks enjoying gains. At last glance, London’s FTSE 100 is off 0.09%, France’s CAC 40 is down 0.3%, and Germany’s DAX is up 0.6%.</div>

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