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U.S. equities gained on Thursday, boosted by a rebound in chip stocks after recent pressure, after President Donald Trump said that he has called off the strikes on Iran scheduled for this evening. The S&P 500 gained 1.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite added 1.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 712 points, or 1.5%. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were last trading around the flatline at roughly $90 a barrel. Oil prices had risen earlier in the day after President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. will be attacking Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT.” He...

To get into the S&P 500, a company is supposed to make some money. The sum of its four quarters of earnings has to be positive—at least GAAP wise—and so does its most recent quarter. That’s a pretty basic rule, decades old and it’s the reason Tesla sat outside of the index until the end of 2020, years after it had become one of the most valuable companies on earth. Soon, that rule will be broken, likely three times. On purpose. SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are all independently preparing to go public, at different speeds; SpaceX has released its S-1,...

A remarkable two-month sprint higher for the major U.S. stock-market indexes encountered its first major hiccup on Friday, as the Nasdaq Composite plummeted more than 1,121 points — its biggest one-day point drop on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That translated to a 4.2% decline for the Nasdaq, the biggest in percentage-point terms since April 10, 2025, data showed. A 2.6% drop for the S&P 500 on Friday was its worst since Oct. 10.

Shares of Dell Technologies rocketed 32% after the company reported its fastest pace for revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018. The stock closed its best day ever. AI server revenue increased 757% from last year. Shares of Dell Technologies closed 32.76% higher on Friday, wrapping its best day ever after the company reported its fastest pace for revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018. The stock narrowly beat its previous record from March 1, 2024, when it popped 31.6%. Shares are now up 234% in 2026. Dell,...

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Wall Street's major averages advanced on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 (SP500) achieving a record high as investors awaited good news on the U.S.-Iran conflict front while parsing more bank and financial earnings. The benchmark S&P 500 (SP500) made new intraday highs and was last +0.5%. The heavy-tech Nasdaq Composite (COMP:IND) was last +1.1%, aided by Broadcom (AVGO), +3%, as it entered into a three-year partnership with Meta Platforms (META) to develop its AI chips and deploy them into data centers. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) was -0.3%. Over in the bond market, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield...

Investors around the globe on Wednesday cheered what appears to be the beginning of the end of the military clash between the U.S. and Iran, sending stocks higher and government bond yields lower. Oil prices plunged on the promise that the Strait of Hormuz may soon be open for shipping.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up by 1,000 points by midday, a 2.3 percent gain. The S&P 500 rose 2.1 percent. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.6 percent. Stocks had been even higher earlier in the morning but pared gains as reports on ongoing missle strikes and a drone attack on...

Historical precedent suggests risk assets trough not long after wars start While the duration of the war is unknown, Lee acknowledges, he senses Trump wants a quick end Stock markets bottom at the beginning and not end of wars is the reassuring message that Fundstrat's Tom Lee sent to investors in a note coinciding with the first quarter's final trading session. While the war's duration is unknown, Lee looks at seven major conflicts dating back to 1900 and finds equity markets have a habit of troughing early on because investors "price adverse risks early and quickly." Markets usually bottom early...

Stocks rose on Tuesday following new reports that gave investors hope that the U.S.-Iran war could soon come to an end. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1,125.37 points, or 2.49%, and closed at 46,341.51. The move came after an unconfirmed report said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was open to ending the war with guarantees. The S&P 500 gained 2.91% to end at 6,528.52, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 3.83% to 21,590.63. All three indexes posted their best day since May. To be sure, Pezeshkian made similar remarks earlier this month, saying in a post on X that the...

I have had Marketwatch on my list of favorites as my “go to” website for financial news for quite some time. I’m becoming increasingly weary of their negative spin on virtually everything related to this administration. I understand that this bias is probably due to Marketwatch being a product of the Wall Street Journal. I’m not avoidant of negativity in reporting but sometimes the bias seems over the top. Any suggestions on where to obtain online reporting on the economy and finances that may be more objective?

We left our sector ratings unchanged for February. Communication Services, Industrials and Health Care remain Outperform, based on their generally solid fundamentals and potential ability of the first two to benefit from artificial intelligence adoption. Consumer Discretionary, Real Estate, and Utilities remain Underperform, based partly on the pockets of consumer stress we're seeing, especially among lower-income consumers, as well as challenging fundamentals (such as a mixed outlook for the office sector).

Paramount Skydance (PSKY) emerged as the likely winner in a m, after streaming giant Netflix (NFLX), on Thursday refused to raise its bid for the storied Hollywood studio. "We've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid," Netflix said in a statement. Netflix confirmed to Reuters that it was walking away from bidding for Warner Bros Discovery. The Warner Bros board still has to terminate the Netflix deal and adopt Paramount Skydance's offer. "Once our board votes...

NEW YORK - International Business Machines shares plunged on Feb 23, after the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic said its Claude Code tool can help with modernising COBOL, a dated programming language that’s mainly run on IBM computers. Shares sank 13 per cent in their biggest one-day percentage loss since October 2000. With the decline, the stock is now down 27 per cent in February, on track for its biggest one-month percentage decline since at least 1968, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “Modernizing a COBOL system once required armies of consultants spending years mapping workflows” but “tools like Claude Code...

US stocks retreated on Monday as investors grappled with the fallout from the Supreme Court's rebuff of President Trump's most sweeping tariffs, which has thrown major trade deals into doubt. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the way down, losing roughly 1.3%, or over 600 points. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) both fell roughly 0.6%, coming off a volatile but winning session on Friday. Growing uncertainty about the global trade landscape is unsettling markets amid debate about Trump's next moves and reaction from countries that have signed US trade pacts. The Supreme Court's...

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was granted the power to see the future, but cursed so that no one would believe her. She warned of disaster repeatedly, only to be ignored until tragedy struck. Today, the United States has its own modern-day Cassandras, and once again our warnings are being dismissed. Knowledgeable experts have cautioned that our nation’s fiscal path is unsustainable. Federal budget documents themselves have repeatedly sounded the alarm. Credit rating agencies have raised increasingly serious concerns. Despite these warnings, Washington continues to behave as though time is unlimited and there are no consequences to continuing to ignore the...

Wall Street could be in for a volatile end to the week as traders brace for what Goldman Sachs says will be the largest options expiration on record.Options expiration days are a monthly occurrence on Wall Street when the contracts on short-term derivatives expire. Friday happens to be one of the rare times (four times a year) when options on four types of securities expire on the same day: index options, single stock options, index futures and index futures options. This is called a “quadruple witching” day.More than $7.1 trillion in notional options exposure is set to expire this Friday,...

Tom Lee breaks down his 2026 market outlook on CNBC Closing Bell: Could we face a bear market next year... yet still finish strong? Tom Lee: What's in store for markets in 2026? | 18:29 Fundstrat | 95.4K subscribers | 183,037 views | December 11, 2025 [interesting YT comment: The interviewer argued with Tom all year that the landscape was not bullish. And now he can't wrap his mind around it no longer being bullish. -- @Luke.Spirit 19 hours ago (edited)

Profitability soared alongside it, with adjusted EPS climbing 60% and margins reaching an impressive 73.4%.Key PointsNvidia’s blowout quarter confirms AI demand is still accelerating.Palantir’s AIP adoption is surging as enterprises operationalize AI.Multiple simultaneous computing shifts are fueling a long-lasting AI boom.Nvidia’s Results Don’t Support the “AI Is Over” NarrativeMost striking was Nvidia’s data-center performance. Revenue from this segment hit $51.2 billion, up 66% year over year. That growth reflects real hardware orders from cloud providers, sovereign AI buyers, and large enterprises racing to scale their training infrastructure.Supply-chain analysts note that Blackwell-generation GPUs are being pre-ordered a year in advance, and...

Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index on Wall Street has started to fall. And even leaders of the industry, such as the Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have started to warn about valuations getting out of control. We already knew that AI was driving a boom in investment. But this week there are worrying signs the market is about to crack. The only real question is whether that turns into a full scale crash. Bitcoin, as so often, is leading the market rout. More than $1 trillion has been wiped off the value of...

Wall Street’s AI-driven rally just got another vote of confidence. UBS (UBS) set its S&P 500 (^GSPC) forecast to 7,500 by the end of 2026 in a note on Monday, citing strong corporate earnings and gains in a resilient technology sector. According to the bank’s just-published global economics and markets outlook, UBS forecasts S&P 500 earnings growth of 14.4% year over year in 2026. About half of those gains are expected to come from the technology sector — a sign that the "Magnificent Seven" will keep powering overall corporate profits, even as other sectors play catch-up. The firm described the...