Stock Market News — September 04, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Wall Street closed lower Friday as stronger-than-expected August jobs data fueled Fed rate-hike bets, with the Dow falling 0.51% and Citigroup pushing rate cuts to June 2027. Meanwhile, Anthropic's IPO nears mid-October launch, but OpenAI faced a rogue AI agent incident and fresh copyright lawsuits,
Stock Market News — August 21, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Wall Street closed higher Friday but endured its worst week in over a month as bond sell-offs and rising oil prices pressured sentiment. Boeing workers authorized a strike threatening production, while OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 pricing by 20%+ and Anthropic hired ex-Google chip talent ahead of a potent
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.
Stock Market News — August 05, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
S&P 500 and Dow hit record highs Wednesday as Shopify surged ~29% on strong earnings and Middle East peace hopes boosted sentiment, though AMD fell ~8% despite a 50% revenue beat and SpaceX slid ~11% post-IPO on valuation concerns.
Stock Market News — August 03, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Amazon crossed $3 trillion market cap as AWS reported its fastest growth in nearly five years, while Palantir surged ~10% post-earnings on raised AI forecasts and CoreWeave jumped 18% on surging AI infrastructure demand. The Dow posted its first record close in a month, powered by broad tech earning
Stock Market News — July 24, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Memory chip stocks cratered across Asia and the U.S.—SK Hynix fell 7.1%, Micron dropped 5.8%, and SanDisk slid 8.6%—as AI spending concerns and U.S. tariffs triggered a brutal semiconductor rout, while SAP's strong earnings lifted European markets and Intel surged 6% on its best quarterly beat in ye
Stock Market News — June 29, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Nasdaq surged 2% and the Dow hit a record close Monday, powered by Alphabet's historic debut in the Dow and broad tech strength. After-hours saw biotech wins (Gain Therapeutics +21%, Abivax +18.5%) offset by a telecom rout and Uber-Waymo's robotaxi breakup.
Stock Market News — June 26, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Apple's 15–25% price hikes on Macs and iPads sparked a global tech selloff, triggering circuit breakers in South Korea and sending the Nikkei down 4%, while Volkswagen's planned 100,000 job cuts and rising Fed rate-hike odds deepened bearish sentiment across markets.
Stock Market News — June 23, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Tech stocks plummeted globally as semiconductor concerns sparked a 2%+ Nasdaq selloff, though Samsung's $59B buyback plan and SpaceX's record $89B bond demand provided bright spots. FedEx tumbled on weak guidance while Alphabet replaced Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Stock Market News — June 18, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Markets rallied ~1% Thursday as a U.S.-Iran peace deal boosted sentiment, with semiconductor stocks soaring after Apple confirmed memory chip price pass-throughs—SanDisk and Micron hit 52-week highs. However, Accenture's guidance cut triggered a broad IT services selloff, dragging down IBM, Cognizan
