Today is Thursday, December 18, 2025.

The Early Bird Index today is 79.83.

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Micron Technology $MU ( ▲ 9.94% ) posted strong financial earnings results on Wednesday, sending the stock up 7.99% in after-hours trading.

Financials: Micron reported earnings of $4.78 per share in the past quarter and revenue of $13.64 billion. Both were better than expected.

Outlook: The company anticipates stronger results in the current quarter, including earnings of $8.42 per share and revenue of about $18.7 billion.

Quote: “Our Q2 outlook reflects substantial records across revenue, gross margin, EPS and free cash flow, and we anticipate our business performance to continue strengthening through fiscal 2026. Micron’s technology leadership, differentiated product portfolio, and strong operational execution position us as an essential AI enabler, and we are investing to support our customers’ growing need for memory and storage.” - CEO Sanjay Mehrotra.

Early Bird’s Nest Egg Gains: Micron’s strong financial outlook is being driven primarily by its AI-focused data center memory and storage businesses, especially high-bandwidth memory (HBM), advanced DRAM, and data center SSDs, which sit directly in the AI infrastructure spend cycle.

Final Thoughts: The strong year continues. Micron’s stock was already up 158% in 2025.

Notable Earnings Today: FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Nike (NYSE: NKE), KB Home (NYSE: KBH), CarMax (NYSE: KMX), BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), FactSet (NYSE: FDS), Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), Cintas (Nasdaq: CTAS), Mission Produce (Nasdaq: AVO), Birkenstock Holding (NYSE: BIRK), HEICO (NYSE: HEI), Accenture (NYSE: ACN), FuelCell Energy (Nasdaq: FCEL), Innovative Aerosystems (Nasdaq: ISSC), Scholastic (Nasdaq: SCHL).

Notable IPOs Today: Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. II Units (Nasdaq: VHCPU), American Drive Acquisition Company Units (Nasdaq: ADACU), Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET), Bimergen Energy Corporation (NYSE American: BESS).

Notable Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns Ending Today: Self Care Non-Alcoholic Beer by Three Magnets (StartEngine), Vita Imaging (StartEngine), MoviePass (Wefunder), Paladin Power (Wefunder), TruAgents (Republic), My-Shop Holdings (Republic), Gains App (Crowdcube), Haatch EIS (Crowdcube), Everything (Crowdcube), Celtic Renewables (Crowdcube). 

Notable Economic Events Today: Jobless Claims (8:30 a.m. ET), Consumer Price Index / Core CPI (8:30 a.m. ET), Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (8:30 a.m. ET), Philly Fed Employment (8:30 a.m. ET), TIC Net Long-Term Transactions (4:00 p.m. ET), Fed's Balance Sheet (4:30 p.m. ET).

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase $COIN ( ▼ 5.73% ) jumped 1.50% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after announcing plans to expand its application beyond…well…crypto.

Details: Coinbase is adding stock trading and a predictions market to its platform. 

Final Thoughts: Perhaps this will spark a revival in the stock? It has been down about 5% this year.

The furniture and equipment company MillerKnoll $MLKN ( ▼ 0.39% ) jumped 9.18% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after posting better-than-expected financial results.

Financials: MillerKnoll reported earnings of 43 cents per share in the past quarter and revenue of $955.2 million. Both were better than expected.

Final Thoughts: Revenue was down year-over-year. An increase in orders made sales better than expected.

Meme Coin Pain: Dogecoin and shiba inu test lower levels after key support gives way (CoinDesk)

New Big Oil Boss: BP's CEO steps aside in Big Oil shakeup (Axios)

Flying Away: Delta president Glen Hauenstein, who helped turn airline into industry profit leader, to retire in February (CNBC)

AI Trouble: Oracle-Blue Owl Split Over Data Center Rattles Markets Banking on AI Boom (Bloomberg)

New Activist Investor: Elliott Builds Over $1 Billion Stake in Lululemon (Wall Street Journal)

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