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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.74%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.55%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.45%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.74%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.44%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.74%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.72%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.38%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Retail investors are piling into AI-linked chip and hardware names as valuation concerns rise after a six-week semiconductor surge.
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems increased the size of an upcoming initial public offering in a sign of continued strong demand for AI stocks.
June S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESM26) are down -0.03%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM26) are down -0.04% this morning, pointing to a muted open on Wall Street as oil prices and bond yields climbed after U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Iran’s response to a U.S. peace proposal.
Welcome to the great chip-stock melt-up of 2026. Intel is now up 239% this year. Sandisk shares have surged 558%. South Korea’s largest stock index has nearly doubled. And the S&P 500’s semiconductor companies have added roughly $3.
A year ago, investors had all but left Intel for dead. Now, the chip maker’s shares are going parabolic, notching their first record in 26 years, then soaring past it. Intel is now up 239% this year.
📈 Follow our live markets data and coverage. Hold on a minute, didn’t they change their name to “Strategy?” Sorry, we were looking at a table of stock performance ending in March 2000, not today. As Jonathan Krinsky and his team at BTIG point out, many of today’s marquee companies also were top performers back then.
May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as a recovery in chipmakers helped offset worries about renewed U.S.-Iran tensions, while investors looked ahead to a crucial employment
Shares of Sandisk Corporation (SNDK) have been flying high as investors pile into semiconductor names and memory-related stocks. The stock has surged nearly 100% over the past month and closed at $1,409.98 on May 6, extending a massive rally that has pushed shares up nearly 500% year to date, ...
Sandisk and Micron are now generating around 80 cents of gross profit for every dollar of revenue. That compares to a wide range historically, from single digits to around 60 cents on the dollar. That seems unsustainably high for companies in the very expensive business of physically manufacturing chips, but AI demand is changing the game.
Profits have never been a sure thing in the volatile industry. Memory chip makers Micron Technology and Sandisk as well as hard-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital have all produced annual operating losses at least once in just the last three years. Sandisk and Micron are now generating around 80 cents of gross profit for every dollar of revenue.
Futures rose. President Trump "paused" his Hormuz opening effort. AI plays AMD, Astera Labs, Lumentum, Arista were earnings movers late.
Oil prices fell and tech stocks extended gains after Iran shared its latest proposal for negotiations. Brent crude futures fell about 2% on Friday to around $108 a barrel. Both indexes finished April with their largest monthly gains since 2020, as investors looked past the war in Iran and focused instead on strong earnings.
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The Nasdaq composite dominates the major indexes on Friday. Buffett stock Berkshire Hathaway reports earnings on Saturday.
Memory-chip maker Sandisk crushed analyst estimates for its fiscal third quarter, sending its stock to record heights on Friday.
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