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03
Sep

Stock Market News — September 03, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Wall Street surged 1%+ Thursday as Treasury yields fell and investors rotated into risk assets ahead of Friday's jobs report. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch, Nvidia's $2.5B Thinking Machines Lab investment, and Anthropic's $15B credit facility dominated AI headlines, while Lululemon crashed 17% on slas
7 min read
02
Sep

Stock Market News — September 02, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Snowflake surged 21% on raised revenue guidance as enterprise AI cloud spending accelerates, while Broadcom slid 3.5% on soft semiconductor guidance and Ultragenyx collapsed 40% after a failed clinical trial. The Dow gained 0.56% as AI capital spending reaches breathtaking pace—ByteDance secured $29
8 min read
01
Sep

Stock Market News — September 01, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Wall Street opened September with a broad selloff as oil prices and bond yields surged, with the Dow falling 0.79%, while Dell Technologies soared 10% after hours on blowout AI-driven earnings. MongoDB cratered 12.5% on disappointing results, and Nvidia could seal a $14 billion Hugging Face acquisit
6 min read
31
Aug

Stock Market News — August 31, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Wall Street closed August lower as U.S.-Iran tensions spiked oil prices, though Anthropic's landmark $35 billion cloud deal with Lambda highlighted AI infrastructure's massive scale. Shein's Hong Kong IPO flopped 8–10%, while the FTC sued Amazon over ad practices and MediaTek surged on Nvidia's $3.5
7 min read
30
Aug

Stock Market News — August 30, 2026 — Weekend Recap — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Fed Chair Warsh's hawkish comments reignited rate-hike fears while a U.S.-Iran military flare-up injected geopolitical risk, driving broad Asian market losses. China's property sector cratered on new mortgage restrictions, and airlines posted heavy losses as oil prices surged, creating a risk-off to
6 min read
27
Aug

Stock Market News — August 27, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Nvidia's $96.2B Q2 revenue beat lifted the Nasdaq 1.5% and sparked a chip-stock rally, while PayPal cratered 12% after-hours following Advent and Stripe's abandoned $50B takeover bid. Affirm surged 8.5% on strong fintech results as investors weighed mixed earnings and anticipation of Fed Chair nomin
7 min read
25
Aug

Stock Market News — August 25, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Tech stocks led markets higher Tuesday, but all eyes are on Nvidia's after-hours earnings as the ultimate AI trade stress test. Intuit's weak guidance and Zoom's soft outlook rattled software investors, while Jack Ma's $76M Alibaba stake purchase and Semtech's strong beat offered bullish signals for
7 min read
20
Aug

Stock Market News — August 20, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Wall Street tumbled Thursday as rising Treasury yields and Walmart's 9% plunge—its steepest drop in years after reporting slowest sales growth—rattled consumer sentiment, though Samsung's $79B shareholder return and Bitcoin's 5.94% surge offered brief Asian relief.
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17
Aug

Stock Market News — August 17, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Markets tumbled Monday as the U.S.-Iran ceasefire expired, sending oil past $90/barrel and bond yields to multi-decade highs—the Dow fell 0.51% and the S&P 500 tested critical support. Geopolitical risk and inflation fears dominated, though bright spots emerged: Nvidia pledged $105B for OpenAI's dat
7 min read
13
Aug

Stock Market News — August 13, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Wall Street hit record highs as softer inflation data crushed rate-hike bets and boosted tech stocks. Silver Lake's $25B bid for Workday and Databricks' $5B funding round at $190B valuation highlight explosive momentum in enterprise software and AI infrastructure, with OpenAI's revenue run rate now
6 min read