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5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens

U.S. stock futures point higher to begin the week, bitcoin pulls back after setting a fresh record high, and Palantir stock slips and MicroStrategy shares rise on news the firms will be added to the Nasdaq 100. Here's what investors need to know today.

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International, domestic insurers push into catastrophe-hit US property markets

International and domestic insurers are pushing into the U.S. market for hard-to-protect homes, charging high premiums and enjoying strong profits after some U.S. firms pulled out. This has left greater room for non-domestic players like Hiscox and Munich Re to enter the fray, industry sources say. Recent large U.S. hurricanes Helene and Milton have added to concern about property losses.

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Canal+ falls, Havas and Louis Hachette up on market debut post-Vivendi split

(Reuters) -Shares of Canal+ fell on their London debut on Monday while fellow Vivendi spinoffs Havas and Louis Hachette rose in Amsterdam and Paris, after shareholders of the French media conglomerate voted in favour of the high-stakes split. Shares of broadcaster Canal+ opened at 290 pence, giving it a market value of 2.9 billion pounds ($3.7 billion), but fell around 16% from that price to 242 pence by 1106 GMT. At that market value, Canal+ would have been eligible to join the FTSE 250 index, but its French domicile prevents it from being integrated into any indexes.

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Nasdaq tops NYSE in listings for 6th straight year as IPO optimism grows

Exchange operator Nasdaq is on track to beat the New York Stock Exchange on listings for the sixth straight year in 2024, as Wall Street looks for a bumper crop of initial public offerings in 2025. Companies raised approximately $22 billion across 160 initial public offerings at Nasdaq in the first 11 months of this year, outpacing the nearly $17 billion in 34 listings for NYSE, according to data provided by Dealogic and Nasdaq. Market watchers took it as another hopeful sign for IPO volume, which has slumped in recent years after the Federal Reserve ramped up interest rates in 2022 to stem surging inflation.

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