Stock Trading Daily Digest – October 26, 2025

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

1. S&P 500 Climbs to New Record on Strong Earnings – WSJ – The Wall Street Journal
2. Stocks to Watch Friday: Intel, Deckers, Booz Allen Hamilton – The Wall Street Journal
3. Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China’s DeepSeek
4. Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
5. 🇳🇬 NNPC can increase stake in Dangote refinery — Aliko – Punch Newspapers
6. 🇳🇬 Capital market critical to achieving $1tn GDP goal — CIS – Punch Newspapers
7. Wall Street notches record closing highs on cool inflation, solid earnings – Reuters
8. Indian benchmark shares rise for fourth week; profit booking caps day’s gains – Reuters
9. Banks Make Loans to Non-Banks – Bloomberg.com
10. The FBI Found Some Insider Betting – Bloomberg.com
11. Trump slaps 10% extra tariff on Canada over Reagan trade ad
12. Timothy Mellon is Trump’s $130 million mystery military donor: NYT
13. 🇳🇬 N100trn market cap: NGX Group expanding definition of value
14. 🇳🇬 Skymark Partners raises N11.49 billion in latest commercial paper issuance
15. 🇳🇬 Who Lives Better: Income of N1.5M in Nigeria or $1K in the US? – Nairametrics
16. 🇳🇬 Naira strengthens to N1,455/$ as foreign reserves hit $42.8 billion – Nairametrics
17. Markets brace as Argentines go to the polls – Financial Times
18. ‘Where the hell is the market risk?’ Scott Bessent takes on his critics – Financial Times
19. Softbank approves remaining $22.5 billion of OpenAI investment, The Information reports – Yahoo Finance
20. ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws – Yahoo Finance

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