Stock Trading Daily Digest – October 17, 2025

Today’s Stock Market update 📈. Catch the top movers across Nigeria, Africa, and global equities.

1. Regional banks, Jefferies shares tank as concerns about sour loans grow on Wall Street
2. John Bolton indicted; ex-national security advisor is latest Trump foe to face criminal charges
3. 🇳🇬 Naira dips third consecutive day to N1,473.29/$ – Punch Newspapers
4. 🇳🇬 Market value surges to N93.8tn as NGX uptrend persists – Punch Newspapers
5. Banks tap Fed lending facility in sign of short-term market strains – Financial Times
6. AI’s double bubble trouble – Financial Times
7. 🇳🇬 NGX 30 index returns 41% so far in 2025, outperforms America’s US30, others – Nairametrics
8. 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s most indebted states as of June 2025 by total debt stock – Nairametrics
9. Stock Market News, Oct. 16, 2025: Dow Falls; Regional Banks Under Pressure – The Wall Street Journal
10. Trump: Cost of Ozempic Could Be $150. Dr. Oz: Not Yet. – The Wall Street Journal
11. OpenAI Has a Business Plan – Bloomberg.com
12. Nothing Is Securities Fraud? – Bloomberg.com
13. Stock market today: Dow drops 300 points, S&P 500, Nasdaq slide as regional bank woes hit markets – Yahoo Finance
14. Waller calls for October cut and then caution as he competes for Fed chair post – Yahoo Finance
15. Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China’s DeepSeek
16. Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
17. 🇳🇬 Markets eye bolder rate cut as inflation cools
18. 🇳🇬 Food inflation drops to 16.87% in September on maize, grains decline
19. Asian shares fall, gold claims new record as banking fears weigh – Reuters
20. US bank stocks plunge as investors grow uneasy about mounting risks – Reuters

That’s it for today’s stock market roundup! Which market do you think will rally next? 🚀