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A softer inflation report that was in line with expectations helped boost stocks today, but overall, it was another fairly uneventful session after a quiet start to the week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite finished up 0.5% today. Outside of the cooler inflation reading this morning, artificial intelligence stocks like Super Micro Computer and Lumentum helped drive stocks higher today, particularly in the Nasdaq, after turning in earnings performances that smashed expectations.
Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, advanced 0.2% last month, with the overall annual inflation rate landing at 3.4%.
US equity indexes ended mixed Wednesday amid stock gains by some major technology stocks and a four-
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Stock futures were rising on Wednesday after cloud computing company CoreWeave, optical networking company Lumentum, and server maker Super Micro all reported solid quarterly results, breathing some life into the AI trade ahead of the July inflation report.
Today Economic data: NFIB small-business index for July, existing home sales Earnings: Cardinal Health, Lumentum, CoreWeave, Super Micro, On Holding, Smithfield Foods Wednesday Inflation data: Consumer price index for July, 8:30 a.
Monday Earnings (a.m): Barrick Mining Earnings (p.m.): Simon Property, Rocket Lab, JBS, Hims & Hers Health, Trump Media Tuesday Economic data: NFIB small-business index for July, existing home sales Earnings: Cardinal Health, Lumentum, CoreWeave, Super Micro, On Holding, Smithfield Foods Wednesday Inflation data: Consumer price index for July, 8:30 a.
Economic news this week will include data on consumer and producer prices, existing-home sales, and small-business optimism. As earnings season winds down, we’ll see results from Simon Property, Applied Materials, Cava, and more.
The stock market cruised higher on Friday to wrap up its best week since April in the wake of the July jobs report. The yield on the 2-year Treasury note fell 4.2%, marking its biggest one-week decline since June. Bond prices move inversely to yields, so the stock market was following the bond market’s rally after the Labor Department said the U.S. economy subtracted 23,000 nonfarm jobs.
Technology stocks were trading higher in premarket trading Monday as the looked set to finally snap its five-day losing streak. Semiconductor companies, other artificial-intelligence stocks, and the Magnificent Seven were among those rebounding to start the week. Microsoft jumped 2% ahead of the open, while Amazon Alphabet Nvidia Meta and Tesla were all up around 1%.
In March 2026, federal prosecutors charged the co-founder of Supermicro with masterminding a $2.5 billion scheme to smuggle Nvidia-equipped servers to China through front companies, forged documents, and dummy servers staged to fool auditors. Jensen Huang had been watching this unfold for months. ...
Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment has improved to ‘bullish’ on SPY and ‘neutral’ on QQQ from ‘bearish’ earlier in the week.
The U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran on Wednesday, even as the war in the Middle East has stretched over 100 days now.
US stocks were set to open lower on Wednesday, but investors gained a little confidence from fresh inflation data ahead of the opening bell, while there were conflicting Middle East messages that pushed oil prices higher. Futures pointed to a weaker start on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones,...
