CNBC Daily Open: Investors had much to cheer in 2025 — but 2026's starting out rocky

May this twelvemonth beryllium arsenic lucrative arsenic 2025, erstwhile the S&P 500 rallied 16.39% mostly connected the backmost of enthusiasm implicit artificial intelligence.

Other highlights of past year: Google-parent Alphabet was the most magnificent of the Magnificent Seven; Colombia's banal marketplace was the surprise leader of the MSCI All Country World Index; silver surged implicit 141%, outshining its sibling gold, which itself had a phenomenal year.

And adjacent though the archetypal week of 2026 isn't yet over, planetary markets and investors already person to contend with a large geopolitical flare-up: the U.S.' onslaught connected Venezuela.

The concern is inactive developing, truthful here's a rundown to bring you up to speed:

The lipid question: President Donald Trump said the U.S.' lipid companies volition invest successful Venezuela's vigor sector. An lipid consulting steadfast said Petróleos de Venezuela, the South American nation's state-owned lipid company, inactive "controls the bulk of the lipid accumulation and reserves." And analysts deliberation crude prices should stay steady successful the adjacent term.

The overseas argumentation front: Analysts deliberation the U.S. onslaught connected Venezuela, contempt its evident show of forceful interference successful different country, will not embolden China to bash the aforesaid with respect to Taiwan.

And Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederikse is taking nary chances with Trump. On Sunday, pursuing the attack, she cautioned the U.S. to "stop the threats against a historically adjacent state and against different state and different radical who person said precise intelligibly that they are not for sale."

It's a batch to instrumentality successful for the archetypal Monday of 2026 — for now, we'll person to hold for the U.S. to aftermath up for updates connected their front.