Stock Market News — July 15, 2026 — After Hours — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Wall Street closed higher Wednesday on cooler inflation data and strong earnings, but a $53 billion Stripe-Advent bid for PayPal (sending PYPL up 15%) and a brutal AI hardware selloff led by Dell's 14% plunge dominated trading. Anthropic's formal IPO push and DeepSeek's $74B fundraising round unders
Stock Market News — July 13, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Markets tumbled over 1.5% as Trump's Iran blockade spiked oil prices and reignited inflation fears, while Nvidia's halved Asia buyer list and SK Hynix's 5.4% plunge deepened semiconductor sector pain ahead of Tuesday's CPI report and Q2 earnings season.
Stock Market News — July 09, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Chip stocks led a broad market rebound Thursday as SK Hynix priced a blockbuster $26.5B U.S. offering and OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 with a new enterprise "super app," intensifying AI competition. Geopolitical tensions eased after Trump signaled Iran wants a deal, while Meta's aggressive AI infrastruct
Stock Market News — July 06, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Wall Street's record Dow and 1% Nasdaq gain Monday were fueled by chip stocks rebounding on the Broadcom-Apple deal extension and SK Hynix's $28B US listing, but optimism fizzled after-hours as Samsung's stunning 19-fold profit jump paradoxically spooked investors worried AI valuations have peaked.
Stock Market News — July 02, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Soft June jobs report sparked a global rally as rate-hike bets faded, lifting European indices up to 2.6% and Wall Street higher. Tesla's record Q2 deliveries paradoxically triggered a 6.6% stock drop in a classic "sell the news" reaction, while chip stocks tumbled on valuation concerns and Meta's A
Stock Market News — June 25, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Micron Technology's record Q3 results sparked a semiconductor rally, briefly pushing its market cap past Meta and Tesla, while Qualcomm unveiled Meta as its first data center CPU customer and Applied Materials surged 7.1% on new AI chip launches. Apple's forced price hikes on Macs and iPads due to s
Stock Market News — June 24, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Micron Technology's record quarter sparked a $400+ billion chip stock rally, with SK Hynix surging 9% and KOSPI briefly halting after a 5%+ spike, while Anthropic accused Alibaba of "industrial-scale" AI model scraping, adding geopolitical tension to the semiconductor-driven market surge.
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
Stock Market News — June 16, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
SpaceX surged past Amazon and briefly topped Microsoft after its IPO, while OpenAI's $3.7 billion Q1 cash burn raised sustainability concerns. Goldman Sachs hit a record $1 trillion in first-half M&A volume as deal activity and AI partnerships drove markets, though tech rotation and Fed uncertainty
Stock Market News — June 16, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
SpaceX surges past Microsoft and Amazon with a $3 trillion valuation and record options volume, while acquiring Cursor AI for $60 billion to boost its competitive edge. The Dow hits a record high as investors digest Iran peace deal relief, though the Nasdaq faces positioning risks amid mixed sentime
