It's the witching hour for traders: the final trading hour of the week, conventionally coming on a "triple-witching" session for expiring futures and options contracts.

Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton are here to catch investors up on the biggest market stories heading into Friday's closing bell.

Infrastructure Capital Advisors CEO Jay Hatfield lays out his market predictions in the case of either a Harris or Trump election victory, believing "a Republican sweep" could send his S&P 500 (^GSPC) year-end price target soaring to 6,700.

Radiant Energy Group founder and managing director Mark Nelson — who also has a background in nuclear engineering — weighs in on what Constellation Energy's (CEG) deal with Microsoft (MSFT) could mean for adopting nuclear energy to meet electricity demands for AI and cloud computing data centers.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Qualcomm (QCOM) approached Intel (INTC) about a possible takeover bid. TECHnalysis Research president and chief analyst Bob O'Donnell joins the program to talk whether this deal is in the realm of possibility for Qualcomm and its product portfolio.

Other top trending stocks on the Yahoo Finance platform include VinFast (VFS), Eli Lilly (LLY), Novo Nordisk (NVO), Qualcomm (QCOM), Intel (INTC), FedEx (FDX), and Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT, DJTWW).

This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.