CPI and AI earnings save the stock market from a breakdown

Welcome back everyone to Stock Market Weekly Episode #812 for Friday, December 19, 2025 where we will be breaking down the most important trends, price action, and noteworthy moves across financial markets.

As always, we will share extensive analytics on the S&P500 (SPX), Nasdaq 100 (NDX), Russell 2000 (RUT), and current volatility environments.

Markets covered

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Stocks covered

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In this week’s episode

This week’s Stock Market Weekly highlights a key market inflection as cooling CPI data and Micron’s earnings helped ease inflation fears and stabilize the AI trade. That combination stopped a potential breakdown in SPY and QQQ, pulled volatility back down, and shifted momentum in favor of the bulls heading into year-end.

We also look at where leadership is re-emerging, from large-cap tech and AI-linked stocks to continued strength in gold and silver, while energy remains a laggard. The episode emphasizes price action, failed breakdowns, and risk management—offering a practical roadmap for traders navigating a choppy but improving market backdrop.

Video episode timestamps

• 0:00 Introduction – key events from this week’s trading
• 0:57 Sponsor – Investors Business Daily
• 1:18 Consumer Price Index report and inflation cooling
• 2:31 Micron earnings and AI sector confidence
• 3:31 Micron trade analysis and risk management principles
• 5:23 OpenAI funding round and AI sector relief
• 7:02 Index returns, sector analysis, and market breadth
• 9:19 Major indices price action analysis (SPY, QQQ, IWM)
• 13:22 VIX analysis and market fear subsiding
• 13:37 Metals sector strength – gold and silver performance
• 14:07 Gold miners breakout (GDX)
• 14:21 Biotech sector (IBB) consolidation and bounce
• 14:54 Energy sector weakness (XLE)
• 15:14 Portfolio review – Galahad long-term trading system
• 15:54 Quant Rockets momentum model updates
• 16:13 Planet Labs (PL) and space sector strength
• 16:35 Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM) gold mining play
• 16:48 D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) re-entry setup
• 17:18 Rambus (RMBS) semiconductor relative strength
• 18:04 Rivian (RIVN) multi-year breakout
• 18:32 Zoom (ZM) potential base breakout
• 19:10 Oracle (ORCL) AI sentiment indicator
• 19:26 CoreWeave (CWEAV) 20% bounce
• 19:46 Year-end wrap up and closing thoughts

We hope that you enjoyed this week’s episode, and look forward to having you back next week!