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Market Rebound and Triple Witching: A Tale of Two Halves in 2025’s Final Full Trading Week

The final full trading week of 2025 concluded on December 19 with a dramatic display of resilience, as Wall Street successfully navigated a "liquidity tsunami" and a mid-week tech rout. After starting the week with a multi-day sell-off that threatened to erase December’s gains, major indices staged

Triple Witching

$7 Trillion "Witching Hour": Unprecedented Derivatives Expiration Sparks Volatility on Wall Street

Today, December 19, 2025, marks the arrival of "Triple Witching" Friday, a quarterly phenomenon that has reached historic proportions this year. With an estimated $7.1 trillion in notional value of derivatives contracts set to expire simultaneously, the market is bracing for a surge in volume and price

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The $7 Trillion Cliff: Massive Options Expiration Collides with Post-CPI Euphoria

The global financial markets are bracing for a historic "Triple Witching" event on Friday, December 19, 2025, as a record-breaking $7.1 trillion in notional value of options and futures contracts are set to expire. This massive "options cliff" arrives at a moment of extreme market