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Hopefully, the MOU between the U.S. and Iran will be the first step toward less mercurial day-to-day trading activity.

Consumers may finally be getting some relief at the pump, with gas prices falling to their lowest levels since March following the Iran peace deal. But any savings could be offset elsewhere, as the AI-driven chip shortage pushes up the price of Apple (AAPL) iPhones. Hennion & Walsh CIO Kevin Mahn and Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferre join Julie Hyman to discuss the latest pressures on consumers and how the Fed is navigating the shifting inflation landscape.

Oil prices continued tumbling on Thursday after President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The deal starts a 60-day negotiation period centered on Iran's nuclear program. It requires the U.S. to lift its blockade of Iran's ports, free up frozen Iranian funds, waive sanctions of Iranian oil sales and prevail upon Israel to cease military operations in Lebanon.

Oil prices dropped further on Thursday after US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart signed off on a deal to end four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic."The US and Iran have signed an initial deal to end the war, causing oil prices to fall further," he said.

June 18 (Reuters) - Wall Street's major indexes advanced on Thursday with technology shares leading gains as optimism about a Middle East peace deal offset worries about a hawkish Federal Reserve

Gold traded lower early Thursday as the dollar rose to its highest level in more than a year after t

JPM, BAC and others face a two-sided Fed setup: higher rates may lift NII, but funding costs, credit risk and securities pressures could rise.

In recent days, Apple has warned that it will raise prices across products like iPhones, Macs, and iPads as soaring memory and storage chip costs, driven by AI-related demand and supply tightness, make current pricing unsustainable. This shift signals that AI infrastructure inflation is now feeding directly into consumer hardware, forcing even a cash-rich company like Apple to pass higher component costs on to customers rather than fully absorbing them. We’ll now examine how these...

Fed holds rates steady but turns more hawkish. Here's how AI, Japan, dollar, small-cap and dividend ETFs could benefit from a higher-for-longer rate backdrop.

Futures markets pointed higher ahead of the open, with S&P 500 E-mini contracts up 0.72% and Nasdaq 100 E-mini futures rising 1.36%, according to Reuters, as investors partly unwound Wednesday's sharp selloff. The S&P 500 lost 1.21% on Wednesday to close at 7,420.10 and the Nasdaq fell 1.34% to 26,021.66 after the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.75% but nine officials projected at least one hike by year-end, stripping away prior language that had flagged likely cuts. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

QBTS signs a $100M LOI under the CHIPS and Science Act, signaling federal backing that could accelerate its quantum computing R&D and qubit roadmap.

US stocks are set to rebound on Thursday after Wall Street suffered a sharp sell-off following the first meeting of a new Federal Reserve regime, with investors taking comfort from signs of a de-escalation in the Middle East. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 have risen 1.3%, while the S&P 500...

Investing.com - U.S. stock futures ticked higher on Thursday, as the signing of an interim Middle East peace deal helped ease concerns sparked by the Federal Reserve’s hawkish policy outlook.

Giverny Capital Asset Management, LLC, an investment management company, recently published its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy can be downloaded here. The model portfolio fell 6.88% this quarter, compared to the S&P 500’s 4.33% decline. Over the past year, the portfolio gained 8.52%, while the index increased by 17.80%. Geopolitical conflicts and inflation concerns drove […]

Policymakers nonetheless said that a recent fall in energy prices meant it was no longer expecting inflation to go as high as it was in April.

GM’s stock, however, is up more than 40% over the past five years even as its market cap clocks in around $75 billion today. The magic is share repurchases: GM has spent roughly $30 billion retiring 500 million shares over that span. Since 2021, GM has generated about $53 billion in free cash flow, despite Covid, inflating prices, tariffs, and ever-changing EV policies.

Giverny Capital Asset Management, LLC, an investment management company, recently published its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy can be downloaded here. The model portfolio fell 6.88% this quarter, compared to the S&P 500’s 4.33% decline. Over the past year, the portfolio gained 8.52%, while the index increased by 17.80%. Geopolitical conflicts and inflation concerns drove […]

Giverny Capital Asset Management, LLC, an investment management company, recently published its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy can be downloaded here. The model portfolio fell 6.88% this quarter, compared to the S&P 500’s 4.33% decline. Over the past year, the portfolio gained 8.52%, while the index increased by 17.80%. Geopolitical conflicts and inflation concerns drove […]

Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 1.6% Thursday as traders looked past the Fed's hawkish signals and oil prices fell on the peace pact

SpaceX stock fell for the first time on Wednesday. The fell 1.3% after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and retail sales numbers showed some discretionary spending weakness. The overall market is probably a secondary factor in SpaceX trading.

US equity markets were tracking in the green before the opening bell Thursday as investors weighed t

Shippers’ exports will face higher fuel fee percentages, while imports will see lower rates once the adjustment takes place June 22.

FedEx is showing an IV Percentile of 87% in advance of their earnings announcement on June 23rd. Assuming we have a bearish outlook on FDX stock, we can run the Barchart’s Bear Call Spread Screener and find the following results:

Wall Street closed lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held rates steady and policymakers projected the possibility of further rate hikes.

Warsh kills Fed guidance but the signs are clear on rates, peace deal leaves big questions over Hormuz and oil

Heavy investment linked to AI and steady consumer spending should help the expansion continue even with sticky inflation, the company said.

By Liang-sa Loh and Faith Hung TAIPEI, June 18 (Reuters) - Taiwan's central bank on Thursday raised its growth outlook for the year thanks to the AI boom, while keeping its policy interest rate steady

U. S. stock futures moved higher on Thursday as investors assessed the implications of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy decision and a surprise agreement between the United States and Iran aimed at ending months of conflict.

D-Wave Quantum (NYSE:QBTS) secured up to $100 million in U.S. CHIPS Act funding, marking a new phase of direct federal support for its quantum computing efforts. The company outlined a gate-model roadmap targeting 100 logical qubits by 2032, alongside its existing quantum annealing platform. D-Wave plans to release an error-aware quantum simulator this September, described as a first of its kind for modeling real-world noise and reliability. D-Wave Quantum enters this news cycle with its...

Volkswagen (ETR:VOW3) used its 66th annual general meeting to outline a difficult but active 2025 fiscal year, with executives pointing to product launches, electric-vehicle momentum and restructuring progress while warning that tariffs, competition and geopolitical pressures continue to weigh on pr