By William Collins, consultant in stock markets – Eurasia Business News, January 2, 2025. Article no 1961

The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Thursday, marking its first five-day losing streak since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4% after giving up an early gain, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.2%.

The declines extended a short losing streak from the end of 2025, as investors took profits after strong multi‑year gains in equities.​

Concerns about stretched valuations, higher yields, and stock‑specific weakness in large tech names, including Tesla, weighed on risk appetite

Semiconductor stocks, including Nvidia, Intel and Micron, rallied, as did some other artificial intelligence names. Shares in Tesla fell, however, after the EV maker posted another annual drop in deliveries.

Micron Technology (MU) led the sector, with gains of nearly 8% in late morning trading. Micron shares rose more than 220% in 2025, amid continued demand for memory from the artificial intelligence spending boom.

AMD (AMD) shares rose more than 3%, while competitors Nvidia (NVDA) and Intel (INTC) rose 1.7% and 6.5%, respectively. Shares of all three companies jumped in 2025, with AMD and Nvidia riding the AI wave, thanks to their respective AI accelerator offerings that have become ubiquitous inside data centers. 

The AI trade drove a rally in chip-heavy Asian gauges. Upbeat sentiment boosted less technology-centric benchmarks too, with the U.K.’s FTSE 100 hitting 10000 for the first time.

Gold price

Front‑month gold futures ending at 4,314.40 dollars a troy ounce after falling 220.40 dollars in a week implies a weekly decline of about 4.9%, the largest weekly dollar drop on record for gold.

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This move snapped a three‑week winning streak and came right after a parabolic run in 2025, when gold’s total gain of 65% far exceeded its typical historical annual moves.

Silver price

Historical precious‑metals overviews for 2026 forecast silver near the mid‑80s dollars per ounce at the start of the year 2026, broadly consistent with ratios implied by gold price growth over the past months. ​

Silver’s move that year significantly outpaced gold in percentage terms, with some reports citing gains well above 100% for 2025 as a whole.

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