IDACORP (NYSE:IDA) raised the lower end of its 2026 earnings guidance after reporting higher second-quarter profit, supported by January rate changes, customer growth and an early ramp in revenue from large industrial customers. The utility holding company reported second-quarter diluted earnings p
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Individual investors are taking some of their chips off the table. Retail traders have piled out of hardware stocks and other artificial-intelligence shares in recent days, according to separate reports from JPMorgan and Vanda Research.
The Nasdaq-100 is on track to deliver its strongest daily gain in more than a year. The index tracked by the Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (NASDAQ:QQQ) surged 3.5% in afternoon trading, on pace for its best session since May 2025, when the Trump administration’s 90-day tariff pause with China unleashed a relief rally across global equities. This time, the catalyst was another proof yet that the artificial intelligence spending boom remains alive and well. A blockbuster quarter from Microsoft Corpo
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Every investor has felt this jolt. A stock is sliding, and then an executive’s name shows up in a regulatory filing next to a stock sale. The instinct is to assume leadership knows something the market does not. Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra just handed shareholders that exact moment. He ...
Lee argued that the Fed’s policy announcement itself could remove a layer of uncertainty that has weighed on markets in recent weeks.
Investing.com -- Direxion on Wednesday launched a new family of exchange-traded funds designed to generate income by writing call options on individual high-volatility stocks, expanding beyond its traditional leveraged and inverse ETF offerings.
There’s never a good time to miss on earnings, but memory-chip giant SK Hynix really picked its moment.
U.S. stock futures largely moved higher, though Sandisk and Micron Technology fell premarket as investor enthusiasm around semiconductor companies continued to wane.
(Bloomberg) -- SK Hynix Inc.'s quarterly profit rose a smaller-than expected 557%, adding to heightened fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating. 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% Bel
(Bloomberg) -- SK Hynix Inc.’s quarterly profit rose a smaller-than expected 557%, adding to heightened fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating. 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% Bel
The market has been spooked by concerns of tech giants’ ballooning spending and signs that China may be catching up in the AI arms race. Asian chip stocks plunged, sending South Korea’s Kospi index 10% lower and Japan’s Nikkei down 4%. The worst-hit American names included memory makers Sandisk which fell another 14%, and Micron, which shed 8.9%.
U.S. stocks finished mixed as a rout in chip stocks continued while falling oil prices boosted consumer stocks.

Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Apple (AAPL) are the next Big Tech names — part of the Magnificent Seven — to report quarterly earnings results this week. Zacks Investment Research stock strategist Ethan Feller weighs in on investors' expectations for these Magnificent Seven member stocks.
NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBTB) reported second-quarter net income of $53 million, or $1.02 per diluted common share, as record net interest income, loan growth and fee-based revenue contributed to improved results. President and CEO Scott Kingsley said the company delivered “significantly stronger earni
Micron Technology stock plunged on Tuesday as semiconductor stocks broadly continued to sell off. In morning trades on the stock market today, Micron fell more than 11% to 796.46. It was among the worst performers on the Philadelphia semiconductor index, known as SOX.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose, but tech futures dropped as chip stocks Micron and Sandisk dived. Coca-Cola jumped on earnings.