Stock Market News — September 18, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, handing control to son Howard in a historic succession. Meanwhile, UBS projects AI spending will hit nearly $1 trillion this year, and Anthropic targets a November IPO with plans for a new model release.
Mortgage Rates — September 18, 2026 — Today (Pacific Time)
US mortgage rates for September 18, 2026: 30-Yr Fixed at 7.20% (+0.01% daily, +0.08% weekly). 15-Yr Fixed at 6.83%. Full rate table and trends inside.
Business News & Hints — September 18, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
CoreWeave and CleanSpark dominated Friday's deal activity with massive capital raises—$3.7B and $2.28B respectively—signaling robust investor appetite for AI infrastructure and crypto mining. Meanwhile, Paramount advanced settlement talks on its $81B Warner Bros. Discovery merger, potentially cleari
Stock Market News — September 18, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Markets face a volatile Friday as a Strait of Hormuz tanker strike sends European stocks to their third consecutive weekly loss, Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, and a $7 trillion options expiration amplifies swings. A hawkish Fed rate hike and Volkswagen's €10 billion profi
Earnings Reports — September 04, 2026 — After Hours — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Virco crushed earnings with a $0.50 EPS beat, while Pro-Dex also delivered strong results—but Vivendi stumbled 4% on restructuring headwinds in tonight's light but quality earnings window with a 75% beat rate.
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
Earnings Reports — September 02, 2026
Snowflake surged 20% on a strong beat and raised guidance, while Tilly's soared 31% with a $0.10 EPS beat and robust outlook. ChargePoint gained 16% on improving losses and 18% revenue growth, but weak forward guidance sank C3.ai 5% despite beating Q1 estimates—proving guidance quality matters more
Stock Market News — September 01, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
European stocks tumbled to multi-week lows as rising bond yields and U.S.-Iran tensions triggered broad risk-off selling, though Apple surged 2.6% on its CEO transition and GoPro skyrocketed 55-80% after a $285M acquisition deal. Goldman Sachs and 20 other institutions plan a dollar stablecoin launc
Stock Market News — August 19, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Moderna's Phase 3 melanoma vaccine success sent its stock soaring over 100%, igniting a biotech rally and record Nasdaq biotech highs, while surging Treasury yields hammered Asian markets before U.S. buyback intervention stabilized sentiment. Marvell's $12.2B custom AI chip deal with Google and Eli
Stock Market News — June 18, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
U.S.-Iran peace deal lifts S&P 500 1% and Nasdaq nearly 2%, with tech surging on chip enthusiasm including Marvell's 7% jump and a Trump-backed Apple-Intel partnership. Defense contractors plummet—Northrop Grumman (-5.8%), Lockheed Martin (-4.3%), L3Harris (-6.4%)—while SpaceX cools after its IPO fr
