Morning Brief hosts Seana Smith and Brad Smith review the biggest market-moving stories this morning ahead of Wednesday's opening bell.

The program welcomes Deutsche Bank chief US economist Matthew Luzzetti on to talk about the likelihood of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates where they are in 2025 after cutting at the central bank's December meeting.

Jefferies Senior Analyst Brent Thill also joins the show to discuss Salesforce's (CRM) latest earnings print and his outlook on the cloud provider's pivot into AI.

Wedbush Securities senior equity research analyst Dan Ives is forecasting the AI rally to "rage" on into 2025 while discussing the Santa Claus Rally tech stocks could be due for this year.

To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here.

Other top trending stocks on the Yahoo Finance platform include Broadcom (AVGO), General Motors (GM), Foot Locker (FL), and Okta (OKTA).

This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.