A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 29, 2025.
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Investors are monitoring the Venezuela developments after the U.S. launched strikes on the Latin American country over the weekend. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured and flown to New York.
Maduro — who came into power in 2013 —and his wife were charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy and other crimes in an indictment on Saturday.
President Donald Trump said that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” in a news conference on Saturday, before Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to walk back those remarks on Sunday. Rubio made no reference to the U.S. governing Venezuela directly.
On the economic data front, the big event of the week will be the December jobs report, due to be released on Friday. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect the economy to have added 54,000 jobs last month.