CNBC Daily Open: Crypto trips up markets' festive mood

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There's thing astir the latest crypto clang that makes it antithetic from erstwhile downturns.

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After finishing past period connected a beardown note, markets stumbled into December, tripped implicit by the sell-off successful crypto. 

All 3 large U.S. indexes snapped their 5-day winning streaks as bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, dropped astir 6% to commercialized beneath $86,000, putting downward unit connected the banal market. 

It was bitcoin's worst time since March. The integer currency precocious past period fell beneath $90,000 for the archetypal clip since April and has since struggled to enactment supra that mark.

Even arsenic likelihood for the Fed's expected year-end Christmas acquisition of a complaint chopped rise, investors look to person enactment crypto connected the "naughty list."

As we caput deeper into December, could markets shingle disconnected the crypto chill, and volition tech stocks beryllium the heroes that support pushing stocks higher? Watch this space.

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Musk throws enactment down H-1B visas. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the U.S. has been a beneficiary of endowment from India, saying "I'm surely not successful the schoolhouse of thought that we should unopen down the H-1B program," adding that it would beryllium "very bad."

Nvidia-Synopsys partnership. The company announced Monday it has purchased $2 billion of Synopsys' communal banal arsenic portion of a strategical concern to accelerate computing and artificial intelligence engineering solutions.

Crypto sell-off. Prices of bitcoin and ether plunged connected Monday, signaling a 5% and 7% autumn respectively. A connection by the People's Bank of China connected Saturday informing of amerciable activities relating to integer currencies heaped unit connected Hong Kong-listed shares of integer assets-related companies connected Monday.

Markets slide. All 3 U.S. indexes tracked the losses successful crypto and snapped 5 time winning streaks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average signaling the largest nonaccomplishment with a 0.9% fall. Over successful Asia, markets besides mostly rose, led by South Korea.

[PRO] Analysts affirmative connected electrical level stock. Wall Street analysts are bullish connected this electrical airplane manufacturer, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America initiating sum with a bargain rating. Citi, which views the banal arsenic a precocious risk, precocious reward, enactment a people terms that suggests a 50% upside.

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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 2: Samsung Electronics holds a Galaxy Z TriFold media time astatine Samsung Gangnam successful Seoul, South Korea, connected December 2, 2025. (Photo by Hwawon Ceci Lee/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Samsung launches its archetypal multi-folding telephone arsenic contention from Chinese brands intensifies

Samsung Electronics on Monday announced the motorboat of its archetypal multi-folding smartphone arsenic it races to support gait with innovations from fast-moving rivals. 

The long-anticipated "Galaxy Z TriFold" volition spell connected merchantability successful South Korea connected Dec. 12, with launches to travel successful different markets including China, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates, the institution said successful a press release. 

The telephone volition beryllium disposable successful the U.S. during the archetypal 4th of 2026, with much details to beryllium shared later, the South Korean tech elephantine added. The Galaxy Z Trifold volition vessel arsenic a azygous exemplary successful achromatic with 16GB of representation and 512GB of storage, priced astatine 3,594,000 South Korean won ($2,449).

— Dylan Butts

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