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Microsoft (MSFT) is planning a new round of layoffs affecting up to 2.5% of its workforce, including its Xbox gaming division. The stock rose 1.21% in after-hours trading.
Gold slid to its lowest since November, pressured by rising Treasury yields and a hawkish Fed repricing. The yellow metal is on track for its worst quarter since 2013.
AMD shares surged 7.68% after a wave of analyst price-target upgrades. Wall Street’s top analysts are betting big on the chipmaker’s AI-driven growth story.
A consortium of over 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase, unveiled a new stablecoin called Open USD. Coinbase shares fell 3.6% after hours, while Circle’s stock cratered nearly 17%.
Oppenheimer cut ratings on Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, flagging structural headwinds for traditional investment banking. The firm is bullish on alternative asset managers Blackstone and KKR instead.
Michael Burry has disclosed a new short position in Tesla (TSLA) ahead of its Q2 delivery numbers, betting the stock will retreat. Shares closed at $420.6 on June 30, up 2.13%.
Tech led the charge Wednesday as the Nasdaq 100 surged 1.70%, while Super Micro's Taiwan office was raided over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling and Intel popped 6% after hours ahead of Q2 earnings.
Intel (INTC) shares surged 6% in after-hours trading to $139.63 ahead of its Q2 2026 earnings release on July 23. Investors are betting on AI chip progress and foundry wins.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 52,000 for the first time ever Monday, as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq bounced back sharply from last week's tech selloff. Tesla surged 8.46%, Alphabet made its Dow debut up 4.7%, and VIX slid to 17.65. June jobs data hits Thursday before Friday's…
JPMorgan raised its year-end S&P 500 target to 7,800, citing U.S.–Iran peace progress and AI earnings momentum — while warning that speculative trading in second-tier AI names raises the odds of a flash crash.
A wall-to-wall week for U.S. labor data. The June jobs report gets pulled forward to Thursday, July 2 — ahead of the July 4th holiday — with consensus pegging payrolls at +172K.
June's preliminary came in at 48.9 — up ~9% MoM and above the ~46.1 consensus — as falling gas prices gave consumers a lift. The final drops today; watch whether the rebound holds and where inflation expectations land.
PLTR has shed ~45% from its peak while revenue growth accelerated from 48% to 85%. This selloff killed the multiple, not the business — and the data shows why this may be the best entry point in two years.
Bears spent a week spinning ghost stories about AI memory demand collapsing — then Micron dropped a $41.5B quarter that beat estimates by 22% and made the skeptics go quiet. One earnings report, one verdict.
TSMC's Q1 FY2026 revenue surged 40.6% YoY with a 66.2% gross margin and net income up 58.3% — the eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit profit growth. The market isn't valuing a foundry; it's pricing the essential manufacturing backbone of the entire AI era.
Jensen Huang called Marvell "the next trillion-dollar company" at Computex, triggering its biggest-ever single-day surge. Now the question is whether the fundamentals can actually back the valuation.
Spot gold broke $4,000 on June 24, dropping to $3,959 intraday — nearly 29% off January's $5,594 all-time high. The three forces behind the selloff are all cyclical; the structural central bank bid — 17 consecutive months, ~850 tonnes per year — hasn't moved.
Precious metals posted their steepest single-day loss since June 10 on Wednesday: spot silver fell ~5.4% to ~$61.6/oz and gold dropped ~1.7% to ~$4,040/oz, as markets priced in three Fed rate hikes before year-end and the dollar hit a one-year high.
Oil prices sold off sharply on June 24: WTI crude settled at $70.34/bbl (−3.92%), briefly dipping below $70 for the first time since March 2, while Brent fell 4.3% to $73.74 — its lowest close since before the February Middle East escalation. Improving tanker transit through the Strait…
A 14-point US-Iran memorandum of understanding reopened the Strait of Hormuz, sending Brent below $80 and WTI to ~$76. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury yield hit ~4.5% and markets are pricing a ~50% chance of a September Fed rate hike.
Citi slashed its Brent crude forecasts after the US-Iran framework deal pointed to Strait of Hormuz reopening — but gold rallied for a third straight session, with markets focused on easing inflation expectations rather than fading safe-haven demand.
Trump called off a planned strike on Iran and told reporters a peace deal is "essentially done." WTI tumbled more than 2% to $87.71, and Brent fell roughly 3% to $90.38 — erasing weeks of geopolitical risk premium in a single session.