19 December 2025:  S&P 500: 6,834.50  ▲ 0.88%   NASDAQ Composite: 23,307.62  ▲ 1.31%   SOX: PHLX Semiconductor Index: 7,067.86  ▲ 2.98%    Portfolio: USD 20.073m = AUD 30.366m  ▲ 1.636%    AAPL: Apple : $273.67  ▲ 0.544%    AMZN: Amazon : $227.35  ▲ 0.260%    GOOG: Alphabet Class C: $308.61  ▲ 1.600%    GOOGL: Alphabet Class A: $307.16  ▲ 1.554%    IBM: IBM: $300.98  ▲ 0.166%    IONQ: IonQ: $48.48  ▲ 4.348%    META: Meta Platforms: $658.77  🔻 0.855%    NVDA: Nvidia: $180.99  ▲ 3.934%    PLTR: Palantir: $193.38  ▲ 4.141%    QBTS: D-Wave Quantum: $26.82  ▲ 7.884%    RGTI: Rigetti: $23.76  ▲ 4.119%    TSLA: Tesla:  $481.20  🔻 0.449%   AUD/USD  🇦🇺: 🇺🇸 19 Dec 2025: 0.66104779 📉   🧙‍♀️🧹 Triple Witching Day   🚀 Spacex IPO to raise more than USD 25 billion   🌏 S&P Global Investment Manager Index (IMI) Sep 2025   🇺🇸 US Imminent Liquidity Crisis 2026? 6 Nov 2025   ⚙️ Manufacturing PMI:  🇦🇺 PMI: 52.2 Dec 2025 [51.6 Nov 2025]   🇺🇸 US Economy   🇺🇸 US Federal Reserve FOMC cuts FFR by 25bp to 3.75% - 4.00% [29 Oct 2025] [📆 Calendar]   🇺🇸 US Manufacturing PMI Oct 2025: 52.5   🇺🇸 US Consumer Price Index Sep-Nov 2025: +0.2% [BLS]   🇺🇸 US Economy: Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE): +2.8% [BEA]   🇺🇸 Consumer Sentiment (UMich) Dec 2025: 52.9 [Dec 2024: 74.0]   🇺🇸 Employment Situation (Jobs Report) Nov 2025 [BLS: 16 Dec 2025]   🇦🇺 Australian Economy   MYEFO: 2025/2026 [17 Dec 2025] - Gross Debt Forecast: AUD 993bn = 34.0% of GDP   GDP - Year to Sep 2025: +1.7% [ABS: Dec 2025]   Unemployment: 4.3% [ABS: Nov 2025]   S&P Global Australia Manufacturing PMI: Nov 2025: 51.6   Consumer Price Index: Year to Oct 2025 Quarter: 3.8%   Productivity Commission advises Treasurer to lower company tax rate [ABC 1 Aug 2025]   🇦🇺 Australian Currency   RBA OCR unchanged again: 3.60% [9 Dec 2025]   Robotics  Unitree Robotics   ⏯️ Conversation   ⏯️ Development   Quantum   D-Wave Announces Formation of U.S. Government Business Unit: 2 Dec 2025   Nvidia’s New Product Merges AI Supercomputing with Quantum: [WSJ] 28 Oct 2025   D-Wave Advantage 2 European Growth: [Market Beat] 21 Oct 2025   Quantum supremacy: Google ran an algorithm on its Willow quantum chip that is verifiable and 13,000 times faster than today's best supercomputers [Google Quantum] 22 Oct 2025   D-Wave Advantage 2 European Growth: [Market Beat] 21 Oct 2025   D-Wave + IonQ: Q-Alliance - The Birth of the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Hub - Italy: 14 Oct 2025   National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act: 22 Sep 2025  Nvidia invests USD 1 billion in PsiQuantum [10 Sep 2025]   Rigetti Demonstrates Industry’s Largest Multi-Chip Quantum Computer; Halves Two-Qubit Gate Error Rate: 16 Jul 2025   Quantum computing over the next five years: Scenario planning for strategic resilience: Deloitte 11 Aug 2025   D-Wave Completes USD 400 million fund raise: 1 Jul 2025   AI   AI Weekly: 4 Dec 2025   Anthropic, Google Discuss Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Deal [Bloomberg: 22 Oct 2025]   Jensen Huang: Nvidia + OpenAI [CNBC: 9 Oct 2025]   Microsoft Agentic AI [Bloomberg Technology: 30 Sep 2025]   Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI [Reuters 22 Sep 2025]   D-Wave Introduces New Developer Tools to Advance Quantum AI Exploration and Innovation: 4 Aug 2025   🇦🇺 Biological AI   🇺🇸 StarGate [USD 500 billion]   ❗️ GPT-5 [Sam Altman]: 7 Aug 2025   🇺🇸 White House AI Action Plan: 23 Jul 2025   🇺🇸 Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) Awards Up to USD200 Million in Contracts for AI to Google, OpenAI, XAI, Anthropic: 14 Jul 2025   A16Z 50 Leading AI Companies 27 Aug 2025   ⏯️ Top 100 [Gen AI] Consumer Apps: 2 Sep 2025   ⏯️ Bloomberg AI: 2 Sep 2025   CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report   Avatars   Synthesia: 17 Aug 2025   GPU+AI   GPU US allows Nvdia to sell H200 Chips to China [Bloomberg 10 Dec 2025]   Nvidia Becomes First USD 5 Trillion Company [Reuters 29 Oct 2025] Jensen Huang Net Wealth: USD 164 Billion cf Elon Musk Net Wealth: USD 469 Billion   AGI: Artificial General Intelligence ⏯️ Tesla xAI Colossus 2 (1 million Nvidia GPUs)   Robotics+AI    Tesla Optimus Gen 3    Seeking Alpha   WSJ   Reuters     ⏯️ The Street   ⏯️ Bloomberg   ⏯️ Business News Live   ⏯️ Brief: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Open Interest: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Opening Trade: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Technology: 18 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Markets: 18 Dec 2025   ⏯️ The Pulse: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Surveillance: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Insight: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ DayBreak Europe: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ Balance of Power: 18 Dec 2025   ⏯️ The Close: 18 Dec 2025   ⏯️ The Asia Trade: 19 Dec 2025   ⏯️ The China Show: 19 Dec 2025