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
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 17, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Markets closed lower Wednesday as the Fed's hawkish dot plot sent stocks sliding and yields soaring, but sentiment reversed sharply after a U.S.-Iran peace deal sparked an Asian rally with record highs in Japan and South Korea. Apple dominated headlines with price hike warnings due to chip costs, a
Stock Market News — June 17, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Semiconductor stocks led a broad market rally as Intel's 18A-P process entered risk production, lifting ASML to a 52-week high and Applied Materials nearly 9%, while a reported U.S.-Iran peace deal and biotech wins offset BMW's 7% profit warning plunge ahead of today's Fed decision.
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
Stock Market News — June 15, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
US-Iran peace deal sends Dow to record highs and Nasdaq to best day since March, while Nvidia's blockbuster $25B bond offering and SpaceX's $3 trillion valuation surge underscore booming AI investment momentum amid geopolitical optimism.
Stock Market News — June 15, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
U.S.-Iran peace deal sparks broad rally with S&P 500 surging and Nasdaq jumping 3%, while SpaceX's record $85.7B IPO values the company at $2.1 trillion and makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. AMD hits all-time highs on its MEXT acquisition, and Nvidia announces a $20B bond sale as AI an
Stock Market News — June 14, 2026 — Weekend Recap & US Pre-Market — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
U.S.-Iran peace deal sends Asian markets and Wall Street futures soaring while crushing oil prices; SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, reshaping mega-cap benchmarks and reigniting institutional appetite for mega IPOs.
Stock Market News — June 12, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
SpaceX's historic Nasdaq debut surged ~19% to push the company past $2 trillion valuation, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Broader markets rallied on U.S.-Iran peace deal optimism that lowered oil prices, while the DOJ cleared Paramount-Skydance's $110B Warner Bros. merger and Roku
