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SpaceX stock is now down roughly 24% from its high. What comes next?
SpaceX will be added to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index on July 7, exchange operator Nasdaq confirmed on Friday, paving the way for a surge in passive investments in Elon Musk's rocket and AI giant. (Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli and Will Dunham)
Tech stocks had another subpar day, as worries about AI spending—and its inflationary impact on consumers—mount.
By Noel Randewich June 26 (Reuters) - Shares of SpaceX rose a marginal 0.15% on Friday ahead of its inclusion in Russell indexes, with passively managed funds tracking those benchmarks required to add
Most of the U.S. stock market rose after oil prices eased back to where they were before the war with Iran, but drops for AI stocks kept the market in check. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.2%. The Nasdaq composite fell 60.99 points, or 0.2%, to 25,297.62.
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Could a delayed mega-IPO be the first crack in the AI spending boom?
June 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes fell on Friday, as chipmakers came under renewed selling pressure after a stellar run this quarter, with investors questioning high valuations and the
Things aren't looking good for the Nasdaq. The tech-focused index is down 4.4% through Thursday—and premarket activity suggests more pain is on the way. Stock futures are lower, with chip stocks and memory makers among the biggest losers premarket.
June 26 (Reuters) - Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street losses on Friday, as chip stocks came under renewed pressure after a sharp rally in the previous session, while some megacap
By Utkarsh Hathi and Johann M Cherian June 26 (Reuters) - European shares declined on Friday, with technology shares tracking global sector weakness, while Zalando fell after Germany's financial
U.S. tech stock futures were down as a global tech selloff gathered pace. A report OpenAI was considering delaying its mooted public offering further soured already weak sentiment around the AI boom.

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, while the S&P 500 closed flat and the Nasdaq dropped nearly half a percent.</p><p>Technology shares reversed early gains to move lower, as investors worried about hyperscaler spending on AI and who foots the bill.</p><p>:: Micron</p><p>Those fears outweighed upbeat signals on AI demand from Micron, which gained nearly 16%, while shares of Sandisk soared 22%.</p><p>Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, notes that it's memory chip makers that are now leading the charge. </p><p>"What's different about Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, those types of names that are doing so well is that they're memory chips. And you have to have memory, specifically DRAM or H-band memory, if you're going to have enough computing power to do all the computations. That is nothing if you don't have memory to transfer it from one place to another. So one of the reasons that these stocks have done so well and the growth at Micron is so solid is because a recent redesign in the server technology means we go from eight memory chips per server to 96. That's 12 times growth in demand for this one simple component."</p><p>The surging prices of memory and storage chips prompted Apple on Thursday to hike prices for its iPads and MacBooks. That weighed on the stock, sending it down more than 6%. Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet also dropped.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Among other movers, shares of Bio-Techne jumped after Merck agreed to acquire the biotech firm for $73 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of about $11.3 billion.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Commerce data on Thursday showed the annual inflation rate through May rose above 4% for the first time in three years, but oil prices this week fell to below pre-war levels.</p></body>
On June 25, 2026, investors tracked deal progress as Bio-Techne shares responded to the proposed buyout terms.
On June 25, 2026, BlackBerry reported impressive earnings, driven by its booming QNX unit.
US equity indexes were mixed on Thursday after Micron Technology's (MU) better-than-expected quarter
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📣 “What we are getting right now is a power rotation. The 10-year Treasury is rallying, and that’s causing rotation into financials and consumer cyclicals. And the Nasdaq is bouncing all over the place because tech is a secular growth story and you don’t need tech as much when oil is at $70.