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Now time for some of today’s trending tickers. We are watching new additions to the S&P, strategy and Marvel.

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First up, Carvana, CRH and Comfort systems. All those stocks are popping after it was announced they’ll be joining the S&P 500.

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The inclusion officially goes into effect on December 22nd. The S&P 500 indexes were balanced every quarter with new companies added if they meet certain criteria.

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factors include things like market value, profitability, and sector representation.

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Next up is strategy, a stock that to some controversially is not going in the S&P 500, at least not right now.

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Uh the stock is down at the moment about a quarter percent after the digital asset Treasury company said it bought $963 million worth of Bitcoin.

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That is the company’s biggest acquisition of the token since July. It comes amid a sell-off in Bitcoin. Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings are now worth more than $60 billion total,

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but the premium to its holdings continues to narrow. And as a reminder, last week strategy announced a $1.4 billion reserve fund to cover future dividend and interest payments.

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And finally Marvel. Those shares are under pressure amid reports that Microsoft will shift its custom chip business to Broadcom from Marvel.

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That’s according to the information which says Microsoft is in discussions with Broadcom to design future custom chips.

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That would be a move away from its alliance with Marvel. The stock was also downgraded at benchmark today. The analyst there says the company has lost Amazon as well as a customer for some of its chips.