Closing Bell Overtime: IMAX CEO on Avatar; Gold & Silver Set Fresh Records 12/22/25

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.8 • 118 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Carol Schleif of BMO Private Wealth and Bob Doll of Crossmark Global Investments on positioning, risk appetite, and what’s driving sentiment. Bart Melek of TD Securities explains the forces moving oil, metals, and broader raw-material markets. Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, on the box office outlook. Michelle Caruso Cabrera examines oil tankers, Venezuela, and the geopolitics shaping energy flows, before Jeff Kilburg of KKM Financial breaks down options activity and market positioning. The show closes with a global equity lens from Kei Okamura of Neuberger Berman on Japanese stocks.

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0:00.0	Well, that's the end of regulation. Global X ETS screening the closing belt, the New York Stock Exchange.
0:08.8	KMK Financial doing the honors of the NASDAQ. We'll be talking to them a little bit later this hour.
0:14.2	Stocks higher. Risk on. S&P and NASDAQ up for the third straight session. the Russell 2000, the outperformer today.
0:21.3	With today's gains, the S&P 500 is less than 1% from a fresh all-time high.
0:26.7	Financials, materials, and energy were the leaders.
0:29.0	In fact, all the sectors were higher except for Staples.
0:31.7	That was the only sector to end in the red.
0:34.0	The big action was in the commodities today.
0:36.3	Gold, silver, copper, all hitting new highs.
0:38.8	Gold and silver now tracking for their best years since 1979. Oil also jumping on supply concerns
0:46.1	after the U.S. intercepted an oil tanker in the international waters off the coast of Venezuela.
0:50.8	A lot swirling there with geopolitics and that blockade. And Bitcoin losing its earlier gains, ending in the red.
0:56.0	It did cross back above $90,000 this morning.
1:00.0	That's the scorecard on Wall Street.
1:02.0	Welcome to Closing Bell Overtime.
1:03.0	I'm Morgan Brennan.
1:04.0	John Ford is off today.
1:05.0	Ahead after coming into December on the defense,
1:09.0	the AI trade seems to be finding its footing with the NASAC 100 back in the green for the month.
1:13.6	Will it last?
1:14.8	Plus, forget the Mag 7.
1:16.6	Gold and silver have outperformed all of them.
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