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<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow dropping almost 1.9%, the S&P 500 shedding 1.6% and the Nasdaq falling nearly 2%.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Renewed tensions in the Middle East added to investor uncertainty, with President Donald Trump saying the U.S. would attack Iran again "very hard" following a significant exchange of fire overnight.</p><p>Chip makers continued to drag on the market, extending their recent declines. Shares of Nvidia lost more than 3.5%, while Broadcom dropped more than 5%.</p><p>Gina Martin Adams is chief market strategist at HB Wealth.</p><p>"We've had a pretty tough go for the last few days in the equity market, really starting in the middle of last week. We started to see a little bit of rotation out of technology stocks as the earnings season is finally finished. That was clearly the big catalyst for gains. Now we're starting to see markets react a little bit to friction that has reemerged in the Middle East. So you've got two different influences on the equity market right now. Investors are rotating out of tech after the enormous run that it had had since the end of March, and Middle East tensions, which are flaring up again."</p><p>:: Oracle</p><p>In other tech names, shares of Oracle, down more than 2% at the close, dropped further in extended trading after </p><p>the company reported quarterly revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street expectations. Its results came amid concerns about Oracle's spending and AI-driven disruption to traditional software demand. The company also said it expects to raise nearly $40 billion through a combination of debt and equity financing in fiscal 2027.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Shares of Super Micro Computer nosedived 28% after the company announced plans to raise $7 billion through a series of equity and equity-linked transactions to fund component purchases for its growing AI server demand.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>And shares of trucking companies dipped after Amazon announced an expansion of its freight services, with shares of J.B. Hunt, XPO and Old Dominion all suffering losses.</p><p>Meanwhile, data from the Labor Department showed U.S. consumer prices increased 4.2% in the 12 months through May, the largest gain since April of 2023.</p><p>While the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at its policy meeting next week, investors are now pricing in at least one rate hike by the end of the year.</p></body>
AI hardware shares slide as investors digest Super Micro’s massive stock sale, hot inflation, and rising tensions in the Gulf, today, June 10, 2026.
Inflation is back in the headlines, and at first glance, the latest numbers appear to deliver a clear message: higher prices mean higher interest rates. Markets have spent the last several years obsessing over every inflation report because the Federal Reserve’s next move depends heavily on whether price pressures are accelerating or easing. According to ... May CPI Surges to 4.2%, but the Fed May Not Be Ready to Raise Rates
Anyone who’s been paying attention at the pump or supermarket knows that the cost of goods has increased substantially this year, particularly over the past few months. We can largely thank the Iran conflict for that. Since the conflict broke out earlier in the year, oil prices have soared, leading to a rise in ... CPI Just Spelled Bad News for Social Security COLA — Even Though it May Not Seem That Way

US stock futures (ES=F, NQ=F, YM=F) tick lower in Wednesday's pre-market trading after consumer prices rose 0.5% month over month and 4.2% year over year in May, according to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) survey. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre takes a closer look at the market reaction to the inflation data, especially in the bond market (^TYX, ^TNX, ^FVX) and various commidites. Additionally, core CPI — which excludes food and energy costs — rose 0.3% monthly and 2.9% yearly. All numbers met economists' estimates.
U. S. equity futures traded lower on Wednesday as investors assessed renewed military action between the United States and Iran while awaiting a closely watched inflation report and quarterly results from software giant Oracle (NYSE:ORCL).
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh sees room to lower interest rates, but President Trump's actions have essentially made rate cuts impossible.
The May inflation report sets the stage for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to act.
The new Fed chair is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
OpenAI is in negotiations to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio, in a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the most vertically integrated company in tech, is turning to Nvidia and Google Cloud to power its most advanced AI workloads. According to CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos, Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that the company’s new frontier language model, FM Cloud Pro, will run on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google Cloud for agentic ... Apple Will Run Advanced AI Model on Nvidia GPUs via Google Cloud, Ditching Private Infrastructure
Kevin Warsh was sworn in as the new Federal Reserve chairman on May 22, 2026, after months of tension between departing Fed chair Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump. Trump has long advocated for a reduction in interest rates to promote economic growth and provide relief to would-be homebuyers facing a difficult housing market and ... New Inflation Data Confirms the end of Kevin Warsh’s Honeymoon
Jensen Huang was in Seoul on June 8, meeting South Korean business leaders, when the question about the selloff came. US tech shares had dropped Friday on concerns over a possible interest rate hike. South Korea's Kospi Index was tumbling that Monday morning as investors continued pulling back from ...
Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) can drive the dagger into Trump's hopes for a rate cut at the June 17 meeting.
The Federal Reserve not only sets monetary policy but also plays a major role in bank regulation.
Fed rate hike probability has quietly climbed from 46% to 70% this year, and Saylor's prized Bitcoin may have been the first to feel the burn.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) is the stock everyone wants to talk about right now, with shares up 202.87% year to date on an AI memory supercycle narrative that has order books reportedly stretching into 2027. But here’s what you should actually be watching. The Crowded Trade At The Top Of Its Cycle Micron just reported a ... As Changing Fed Expectations Rattle Tech Stocks, This Cash-Generating Titan Is The Clear Winner
Investors need to understand the relationship between interest rates and stock prices.
US stock futures were mixed as concerns about a Middle East ceasefire continued to weigh, and investors braced for fresh inflation data and a blockbuster SpaceX IPO this week.
US stock futures were mixed as concerns about a Middle East ceasefire continued to weigh, and investors braced for fresh inflation data and a blockbuster SpaceX IPO this week.
There's a silver lining in the Fed's initial June inflation forecast -- but we're nowhere close to being out of the woods.
Investors have some good options if the Warsh-led Fed makes an unpopular decision in the near future.
By Jihoon Lee and Yena Park SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters) - South Korea's stock benchmark plunged over 8% on Monday, tripping circuit breakers, after robust U.S. jobs data lifted bets on a Federal Reserve
Will the Federal Reserve act in the best interest of the American people?
President Trump’s second-term trade agenda has hardened into a structural policy regime, with U.S. steel imports sitting at their lowest levels since the global financial crisis. That backdrop has turned the under-$40 corner of the industrial market into one of the most asymmetric setups in the market, where a single multi-quarter pricing cycle can re-rate ... 1 Cash-Rich Industrial Titan Under $40 to Buy Hand Over Fist to Capitalize on the New Trump Tariff Supercycle
A 68-year-old retiree who moved $180,000 out of stocks and into the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) in late 2024 was making a directional rate bet. The pitch was clean: lock in a 4.5% long-bond yield before the Federal Reserve cut rates, then collect price appreciation on top of monthly coupons. The 20-year ... If You Hold This 20 Year Treasury ETF You Are Losing Money Even With Yields Up
