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The S&P 500 undercut its 50-day as Treasury yields and oil prices surged. Oracle jumped late on earnings. The CPI inflation report could lock in expectations for a Fed rate hike next week.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Thursday ahead of a key inflation report. Nvidia chipmaker TSMC falls on August sales.
FEATURE Stock futures were edging higher on Thursday, even as oil carried on rising having topped $100 a barrel for the first time since July the previous session. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
Oil prices and Treasury yields weighed on the indexes, But Meta, AMD were winners. Apple unveiled its foldable iPhone. Inflation data looms.
Tracey Ryniec and John Blank debate the slowing job market while AI spending is also booming.
The major market indexes pulled back amid higher oil prices and upcoming CPI inflation data. Nvidia partners Lumentum, CoreWeave, Super Micro reported late.
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(Bloomberg) -- The lofty premium on SK Hynix Inc.’s US-listed shares, following its $26.5 billion mega listing, will come under scrutiny as the memory chip giant’s stock becomes convertible.Most Read from BloombergChip Rout Deepens on Circular Funding, China Competition FearsNvidia’s $750 Billion in Deals Reignite Circular AI FearsApple Set to Make Big Smart Home Push With Siri AI at CenterCitadel Securities Sees Warsh Delivering Surprise Fed HikeSpaceX Rebounds After Briefly Plunging 20% Below
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<body><p>STORY: :: TSMC sees 'strong', 'multi-year' AI chip demand as it invests another $100 billion in its Arizona facilities</p><p>:: Taipei, Taiwan / July 17, 2026</p><p>:: Wendell Huang, TSMC Chief Financial Officer</p><p>"Our overseas expansion decisions are based on customer needs with a necessary level of government support. So we do see, we continue to see customers' strong demand, multi-year structured demand."</p><p>:: TSMC</p><p>"We also are very grateful for the support from the U.S. government: the federal, the state, and the city level. And therefore, we decided that -- and we're doing very well. We're very happy with our current status in Arizona -- so we decided to increase the investment in Arizona."</p><p>"There are physical constraints, the number of construction workers available, the infrastructures available. Those parts will -- some of that depends on -- we'll work closely with the government to solve these issues."</p><p>Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang said on Friday (July 17) the company is "very happy" with progress in Arizona, which is why it decided to ramp up investment to $265 billion, during an interview. He added that the company was very grateful for U.S. government support.</p><p>The pledge to expand in Arizona is a win for U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pushed for more chip-making at home. Trump has repeatedly accused Taiwan of stealing American semiconductor business. He has said that by the time he leaves office, the U.S. will have 50% of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity. </p><p>In total, current and planned projects will bring TSMC's Arizona footprint to 12 fabrication and advanced packaging facilities plus an R&D center. He did not provide a timeline for the latest investment. </p><p>At the same time, TSMC continues to invest at home, where it is building 13 leading-edge and advanced packaging fabs over the next several years. </p><p>Huang added that “the most leading-edge technology will stay in Taiwan" because of the need for close coordination between research and manufacturing teams when ramping up the company’s most advanced technologies. And overseas expansion would be considered once production had stabilized.</p><p>Asked if the company would consider raising money by selling new shares in the U.S., Huang said it would "not rule out issuing new bonds" if market conditions are favorable.</p></body>
<body><p>STORY: A brutal selloff in chipmakers spread through global markets on Friday.</p><p>It led to a rout across Asia and also saw European shares open lower.</p><p>It follows a shift in investor sentiment about an AI-driven rally as they reassessed its durability.</p><p>Investors fled risk across Asia, which sent MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan down 2.7%.</p><p>While the Nikkei tumbled more than 5%.</p><p>Taiwan's stock market plunged more than 6% for its worst day since U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.</p><p>Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index also slid 2.5%.</p><p>The selloff came even as Taiwan's TSMC announced second-quarter profit that blew past forecasts earlier in the week.</p><p>Another AI-exposed firm in ASML also raised its sales forecasts earlier this week.</p><p>Markets in South Korea were closed on Friday for a holiday.</p><p>It came a day after authorities announced they would temporarily ban new listings of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to certain major tech firms.</p><p>They will also raise minimum required deposits for retail investors to invest in such products as they try to lower volatility.</p><p>Oil prices were also on the rise in commodities.</p><p>Brent crude futures crept up 0.1% at just over $84 a barrel.</p><p>Iran said it launched fresh attacks on U.S. facilities in the Gulf on Friday.</p><p>That comes after a sixth consecutive night of U.S. strikes on Iranian military facilities.</p><p>Brent and U.S. crude futures were due to rise more than 10% each for the week.</p></body>
Investing.com -- U.S. stock index futures were mixed on Thursday as investors weighed lingering Middle East tensions, and focused on corporate earnings and further signs that U.S. inflationary pressures are easing.
US stock futures traded close to flat on Thursday as investors weighed encouraging inflation data, another strong round of corporate earnings and ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Market attention also turned to a busy schedule of economic releases and earnings reports that could shape sentiment for the remainder of the week.
Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were largely steady on Thursday as softer inflation data continued to support hopes that the Federal Reserve can keep interest rates on hold.
Today Earnings: Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, PNC Financial Services, Conagra, Cintas, United Airlines, Bank of New York Mellon, Elevance Health, J.B. Hunt, ASML Economic data: Producer-price index data for June, Empire State manufacturing survey, EIA weekly petroleum status report, Fed beige book.
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Wall Street heads into one of its busiest weeks of the summer, with second-quarter earnings season shifting into high gear alongside key inflation data and closely watched testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh. The week kicks off with a flood of bank earnings. JPMorgan Chase,...
Big banks kick off earnings season this week, which will also bring reports from GE Aerospace, Netflix, and Taiwan Semi. In economic news, we’ll get the consumer and producer price indexes, and retail sales data.
Your exchange-traded fund is flat. Remember that ETF you tucked away that invests in developed markets outside the U.S.—the one that looked cheap but has lagged behind the S&P 500 forever because it’s loaded with crusty old companies in Europe and Japan? By the way, both of these overseas funds, developed and emerging, beat the S&P 500 by a lot in 2025, too, but that was partly because the value of the dollar tanked last year as the Federal Reserve was cutting interest rates.
Asian markets mostly fell on Thursday as a heavy sell-off in chip shares spread across the region, while European stocks opened flat and US futures pointed lower ahead of a closely watched American jobs report.View on euronews
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