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News2026-08-10

Monday Premarket Edition: Futures Mixed After Record Week

Futures Mixed After Record Week as Hormuz Demands Keep Oil Elevated; SpaceX Extends Rebound Ahead of CPI.

News2026-08-07

Friday Close Edition: S&P 500 Hits Record

S&P 500 Hits Record as Soft Jobs Report Eases Rate-Hike Fears; Nasdaq Leads on Tech Rebound While SpaceX Surges After Lock-Up.

News2026-08-07

Friday Premarket Edition: Futures Edge Higher Ahead of Jobs

Futures Edge Higher Ahead of July Jobs Report; Nasdaq Bid on Chip and Software Strength While Hormuz Uncertainty Keeps Oil Elevated.

News2026-08-06

Thursday Close Edition: Dow Pulls Back From Record

Dow Pulls Back From Record as Memory Digestion and SpaceX Lock-Up Weigh; Soft Jobless Claims Keep Labor Narrative Intact.

News2026-08-06

Thursday Premarket Edition: Futures Mixed After Dow’s Record

Futures Mixed After Dow’s Third Straight Record; Nasdaq Soft on Memory Digestion and SpaceX Lock-Up Expiration — Hormuz Diplomacy Keeps Oil Contained.

News2026-08-05

Wednesday Close Edition: Dow Hits Record, Nasdaq Slips

Dow Hits Another Record While Nasdaq Slips on SpaceX and AMD Digestion; Soft ADP Flags Cooling Labor Market Ahead of Friday’s Jobs Report.

News2026-08-05

Wednesday Premarket Edition: Futures Steady After Record Session

Futures Steady After Record Session as SpaceX and AMD Weigh on Tech; Hormuz Deal Hopes Keep Oil Soft Ahead of ADP.

News2026-08-04

Tuesday Close Edition: Records Across the Board

Records Across the Board: S&P 500 and Dow Hit Fresh Highs, Nasdaq Rallies 2.6% as Palantir Soars Nearly 30% and Oil Keeps Falling on Hormuz Deal Hopes.

News2026-08-04

Tuesday Premarket Edition: Palantir Surges, SpaceX Earnings Loom

Wall Street Digests Record Dow Close as Palantir Surges on Blowout AI Software Results; SpaceX First Public Earnings Loom After the Bell.

News2026-07-31

Friday Premarket Edition: AI Capex Converts, Again

Amazon Soars on AWS, Apple Slides on Guidance, Futures Edge Higher After Microsoft’s Record Session.

News2026-07-30

July 30th Market Close: A Tale of Two AI Strategies Delivers: Microsoft Leads a Powerful Rebound, Meta Craters, Apple and Amazon Split After the Bell

Microsoft Leads a Powerful Rebound, Meta Craters, Apple and Amazon Split After the Bell.

News2026-07-30

July 30th Market Open: A Tale of Two AI Strategies After the Bond Market Revolts

Microsoft Surges on Record Cloud Growth, Meta Craters 8.5% on a Capex Raise, and Futures Rebound From the Dow's Worst Day Since April 2025.

News2026-07-29

July 29th Market Open: The Pause Breaks on Fed Day: Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at US Troops

Brent Jumps 6.6% Back Toward $90, and SK Hynix's Record Profit Can't Satisfy the Market — KOSPI Falls 6% Again as Wall Street Waits on Warsh, Microsoft, and Meta

News2026-07-28

July 28th Market Close: The Correction Scare That Held: Nasdaq-100 Brushes Correction as Global Memory Craters

Kioxia -18%, Dell -13% — but the Dow Jumps 537 on Coca-Cola and Sherwin-Williams, Health and Financials Hit Records, and Apple Crosses $5 Trillion; SK Hynix Reports Tonight, the Fed Tomorrow

News2026-07-28

July 28th Market Open: The Chip Rout Goes Global: Korea's Kospi Craters 10.84%

Samsung 13.4% Before Earnings; Nvidia's $250 Billion OpenAI Backstop Reignites Circular-Financing Fears — Yet Dow Futures Gain on Coca-Cola and Cheaper Oil, and Apple Retakes the Crown

News2026-07-27

July 27th Market Close: The Relief Rally That Turned: Dow Climbs 263 Points as Oil Settles Nearly 9% Lower

While a China Chip Shock Sinks the Nasdaq; ASML and AMD Tumble on Domestic DUV Breakthrough — Yet Semis Bounce Off the Lows Into a Fed-and-Megacap Week

News2026-07-27

July 27th Market Open: Futures Surge as the US and Iran Pause the War and Oil Crashes 7% Below $90

Wall Street Braces for the Quarter's Biggest Week — the Fed, Four Magnificent Seven Prints, and the First Verdict on Starship's Successful Flight; Airlines Fly While Energy Stocks Sink

News2026-07-25

Week of July 20–24: The Week AI Capex Went on Trial

Alphabet, Tesla and Even Intel's Blowout All Punished for Spending; Oil's Round Trip From $94 to $100 and Back to $95; the Magnificent Seven Shed $800 Billion

News2026-07-24

July 24th Market Close: Even a Blowout Can't Escape the Capex Punishment

Intel Beats, Opens +4%, Then Closes Down 8% on a Two-Year Spending Guide; Chips Sink the Nasdaq Below 25,000 While Apple Lifts the Dow to a Green Close

News2026-07-24

July 24th Market Open: Wall Street Attempts a Rebound

Intel's Blowout Lifts Chips and Oil Cools Below $99 — but New Trump Global Tariffs Take Effect and the 'Magnificent Seven' Shed $800 Billion

News2026-07-23

July 23rd Market Close: Big Tech's Capex Bill Triggers a Rout

Dow Sheds 507 Points, Nasdaq -2.15% as Tesla Crashes 14% and Alphabet Loses 7%; Brent Settles Above $100 for the First Time Since May

News2026-07-23

July 23rd Market Open: Big Tech's Capex Bill Comes Due

Alphabet Sinks to $331.91 on a $205 Billion Spending Plan, Tesla Craters to $352.10 on a 1.4% Operating Margin, IBM Cuts Guidance

News2026-07-22

July 22nd Market Close: Wall Street Closes Coiled Before the Verdict

Dow Six Points From Flat, Nasdaq -0.57% as Alphabet and Tesla Are Sold Into Their Own Earnings; Brent Settles at $94.07 on the Eleventh Strike Night

News2026-07-22

July 22nd Market Open: Futures Slip, Oil Tops $92

Futures Slip as Oil Tops $92 on the Eleventh Strike Night and Alphabet, Tesla Take the Stage; Memory Rally Cools After Morgan Stanley's 25% Price Call

News2026-07-21

July 21st Market Open: Chip Stocks Revive, Korea Rebounds

Chip Stocks Revive Again as Korea Rebounds 3.6% and Nasdaq Futures Jump 1.3%; Earnings Season Roars (87% Beating) Even as Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Canada

News2026-07-20

July 20th Market Close: Apple Drags the Dow 307 Points

Healey — Not Mahmood — Named Chancellor as Gilts Hit a Two-Month High; SpaceX Prints a Fresh $122 Low Then Rallies; Warsaw Closes Green on a 7.6% Factory Beat

News2026-07-20

July 20th Market Open: Ninth Night of Strikes, Futures Point Higher

Futures Point Higher as Oil Round-Trips From $91: Musk Calls a $52 Billion Nvidia-Server Report Fake News as Starship Slips to Thursday.

News2026-07-18

Best Futures Trading Platforms: Week in Review Jul 13–17

Futures & spot week in review, Jul 13–17, 2026: ES, NQ, CL, GC, NG, FX and stock movers — how the best futures trading platforms handled it. Read on.

News2026-07-17

July 17th Market Close: Semiconductors Smoked, Dow Surrenders 406 Points

S&P -1.01%, Dow surrenders 406 points as CENTCOM launches a seventh night of strikes; SpaceX dates retry for Monday; Warsaw ends week flat.

News2026-07-17

July 17th Market Open: Starship Aborts, Netflix Slides

Starship Aborts on the Pad as Shorts Swell to 29% of the Float; Netflix Slides Toward -10%. Both AI Mysteries Are Solved.

News2026-07-16

July 16th Market Close: 147-Point Dow Rally, VIX at 17 & Starship Flight

Dow Jones stages a late 147-point rally in the final 16 minutes after a chip-led selloff. Gold breaks below $4,000 while SpaceX prepares for Starship Flight 13.

News2026-07-16

Starship Day: SpaceX Flies at 5:45 PM With the Stock Below Its IPO Price; TSMC's 77% Profit Surge Gets Sold as Memory Carnage Goes Global — Kospi Crashes 6%, Netflix Reports Tonight

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 and TSMC's record profits overshadowed by global memory sector rout. Kospi crashes 6%.

News2026-07-15

Apple and Big Tech Buy the Close as Opaque Fed Calms Rates; Memory Makers Tumbler >7% on Gravity Check — Starship Flies Tomorrow

S&P 500 and Nasdaq close higher led by Apple and Big Tech. PayPal surges over 20% on Stripe-Advent bid, while memory sector suffers pullback.

News2026-07-15

PPI Goes Negative as Disinflation Doubles Down; PayPal Rockets on $53 Billion Stripe-Advent Bid; ASML's Second Guidance Hike Reignites AI Trade — and Starship's 13th Flight Is Tomorrow

June PPI falls 0.3% confirming disinflation momentum. PayPal rockets on joint Stripe-Advent bid, and ASML raises 2026 guidance.

News2026-07-14

Inflation Delivers a Shock Cooldown as IBM Suffers Worst Day in 39 Years — and the Dow Still Closes Green; SK Hynix Explodes 27% Higher, Gold Reverses Its Unwind, Nasdaq +0.9%

June CPI falls 0.4% month-over-month, annual inflation drops to 3.5%, triggering a massive chip-led rebound while IBM collapses 25.21%.

News2026-07-14

One Hour to CPI: Futures Coil as Banks Kick Off Earnings — BofA and Wells Post Profit Jumps; Brent Hits $86 on Third Night of Iran Strikes; Warsh's Maiden Testimony at 10

S&P 500 futures coil flat ahead of June CPI print. Bank of America and Wells Fargo report profit jumps while Brent crude hits $86 on continued Hormuz tensions.

News2026-07-13

Nasdaq Sinks 1.55% as Trump Reinstates "Iranian Blockade" With 20% Hormuz Cargo Fee; SK Hynix Closes Down 9% in Textbook Post-IPO Fade; Warsaw Sets Records, FTSE Ends Flat

Nasdaq Composite drops 1.55% as Trump announces the reinstatement of the 'Iranian Blockade' and a 20% cargo fee. SK Hynix closes down 9%.

News2026-07-13

Chip Rout Goes Global: SK Hynix Crashes 15% in Seoul's Worst Day Ever, Kospi Halted as Iran Declares Hormuz Closed; Nasdaq Futures Sink 1% Ahead of Massive CPI-Warsh-Banks Week

SK Hynix shares collapse over 15% in Seoul, dragging Kospi down 9% and halting trading. Nasdaq futures sink 1% ahead of CPI week.

News2026-07-10

SK Hynix Soars in Historic $26.5 Billion Nasdaq Debut as Indexes Close Higher; Meta Jumps 6% on AI-Cost Surprise; Dow's Four-Week Streak Snaps

SK Hynix soars in a historic $26.5B Nasdaq debut. Meta jumps 6% on AI-cost efficiency, while the Dow snaps its four-week winning streak.

News2026-07-10

Mixed Futures as SK Hynix's Record $26.5 Billion IPO Takes Center Stage; Delta Beats but Slips on Fuel Costs

U.S. futures are mixed as SK Hynix begins trading on the Nasdaq after its record $26.5B IPO. Delta beats estimates but slips on fuel costs.

News2026-07-09

Chips Lead Broad Rally as Markets Shrug Off Iran Strikes; SK Hynix 7x Oversubscribed Ahead of Friday Debut; Dow Still Set to Snap Winning Streak

Wall Street rallies as the chip sector surges ahead of SK Hynix's debut, looking past escalating US-Iran conflict. The Dow nears the end of its 4-week winning streak.

News2026-07-09

Futures Rise as Markets Look Past Iran Strikes Toward SK Hynix Debut; SpaceX Faces Fresh Funding-Risk Warning Even as Mag 7 Wobbles

U.S. futures are pointing modestly higher this morning as investors look past a second consecutive day of U.S.-Iran hostilities and instead focus on a genuinely bullish AI-chip narrative.

News2026-07-08

Dow Slides 1.1% as Iran Ceasefire Collapse Sends Oil Surging Past $78; Fed Minutes Reveal Divided Committee Under Warsh

Wall Street closed broadly lower Wednesday as the collapse of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire dominated the session, though the damage was notably uneven across the market.

News2026-07-08

Futures Claw Back Overnight Losses as Markets Digest Trump's 'Ceasefire Is Over' Declaration; Oil Spike Cools, Fed Minutes Loom

U.S. futures are recovering most of their overnight losses after Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran is 'over', leading to an oil spike.

News2026-07-07

Chip Stocks Tank Despite Samsung's Record Profit as Iran Tanker Threat Sends Oil Spiking; Dow Pulls Back From Record High

Wall Street closed lower Tuesday in a session dominated by a sharp, chip-specific selloff that overshadowed an otherwise record-setting start.

News2026-07-07