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 14, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Stripe and Advent International's $53 billion offer to acquire PayPal reshapes the payments landscape, while cooler CPI data and strong Goldman Sachs earnings lift equities—though IBM's AI warning and Lucid's near-collapse keep gains measured.
Stock Market News — July 10, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Wall Street closed higher Friday as the S&P 500 approached record highs, buoyed by SK Hynix's historic 13% Nasdaq debut—the largest foreign IPO ever—which reignited AI chip enthusiasm and lifted NVIDIA 3.5%. Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions pushed oil prices higher, Apple sued OpenAI over trade secr
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 01, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Semiconductor stocks plunged 6% as OpenAI's efficiency gains and Meta's cloud infrastructure plans threatened chip demand, though Meta surged 9% on its monetization strategy. Strong IPO debuts from ITG and Lime, plus robust M&A activity including Kroger's $1.65B Giant Eagle acquisition, signaled res
Stock Market News — June 30, 2026 — Morning Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Semiconductor stocks surge to record market share as the Philadelphia chip index posts its best first-half performance since the dotcom era, up ~94%, while NVIDIA and AMD recover on bullish outlooks. A landmark Visa/Mastercard stablecoin launch reshapes crypto payments, though BMW's profit margin co
Stock Market News — June 26, 2026 — Friday Evening — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Tech stocks plummeted 4.5% this week as OpenAI delayed GPT-5.6's rollout and Strait of Hormuz tensions escalated, but SpaceX soared with a $25B bond offering and confirmed Nasdaq 100 entry on July 7, triggering massive passive fund buying.
Stock Market News — June 25, 2026 — Evening Update — Last 12 Hours (Pacific Time)
Apple's price hikes triggered an 8% KOSPI plunge in South Korea, while a reported OpenAI IPO delay to 2027 hammered SoftBank 13% and extended Nasdaq losses. However, Micron's stellar earnings and Samsung's $648B decade-long AI investment plan signal underlying strength in semiconductor infrastructur
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
