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Sep

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,
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04
Sep

Analyst Ratings — September 04, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Cybersecurity stocks led Friday's analyst activity, with Zscaler receiving near-unanimous bullish revisions from eight firms, while Lululemon absorbed heavy target cuts from six analysts citing weak demand and China headwinds. Snowflake saw Freedom Broker raise its price target 50% to $450, marking
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04
Sep

Stock Market News — September 04, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)

Strong August jobs report (162K payrolls) reignited Fed rate hike bets, sending stocks lower and pushing Citigroup's first rate cut forecast to June 2027. Lululemon crashed ~18% on guidance cut, while Volkswagen surged 6.5-7% after board approved radical restructuring, and Tesla slid on Cybercab reg
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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
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03
Sep

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

Wall Street surged ~1% Thursday as Treasury yields fell and investors rotated into risk assets. Nvidia's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face marked a landmark AI infrastructure bet, while Snowflake's 22% jump on strong AI results lifted the enterprise software sector, signaling faster-than-ex
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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
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02
Sep

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

AI stocks soared on strong earnings—Dell +11%, GitLab +22%, NVIDIA +3.9%—but gains were tempered by rising bond yields, geopolitical tensions, and oil prices dragging European markets to one-month lows. Google's courtroom victory blocking a forced ad-tech breakup was overshadowed by its new defense
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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
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01
Sep

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
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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
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