Group 1 - U.S. stock index futures are slightly down, with Nasdaq futures down 0.01%, S&P 500 futures down 0.02%, and Dow futures down 0.07% [1] - Moody's reports that the U.S. real GDP growth for Q3 is approximately 2% after excluding technical factors [3] - Nvidia has reportedly paused testing of Intel's 18A process technology [4] - Morgan Stanley indicates that the delivery lead time for Apple's iPhone 17 series has significantly shortened, with supply and demand conditions stabilizing [5] Group 2 - Apple has reached a settlement with Brazil's antitrust agency to allow third-party app stores [6] - Sanofi plans to acquire Denali Therapeutics for approximately $2.2 billion to expand its vaccine product line [7] - Warner Bros. Discovery's key shareholders believe Paramount's revised conditions are still insufficient and will continue to monitor the situation [8] - Apple CEO Tim Cook purchased 50,000 shares of Nike stock at a transaction value of nearly $3 million [8] Group 3 - Boeing has been awarded a $2 billion contract by the U.S. Air Force to advance the B-52 program [10] Group 4 - Lockheed Martin has received an increase in the total contract amount from the U.S. Department of Defense for the C-130J transport aircraft to $25 billion [11] Group 5 - BP is nearing a $10 billion deal to sell a majority stake in its Castrol lubricants business to Stonepeak [12] Group 6 - Automation company UiPath has been added to the S&P MidCap 400 index, effective before the market opens on January 6 [13]