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Dow Jones futures: The S&P 500 and Nasdaq jumped as Trump canceled Iran strikes, but still below key levels. The SpaceX IPO priced at 135 a share. CrowdStrike flashed a new buy signal.
U.S. stocks rallied to their best day in two months, and oil prices fell after President Donald Trump called off his threat to bomb Iran in the evening. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 2.5%. The Nasdaq composite rose 640.16 points, or 2.5%, to 25,809.66.
US equity indexes were higher on Wednesday after core producer price inflation grew less than foreca
Wall Street snapped a three-day losing streak on Thursday, but the rally lost steam by midday. Hot inflation data and Middle East tensions are keeping investors cautious ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.
Tesla stock rose early Thursday after the order book for SpaceX’s massive IPO closed. Tesla stock was up 0.8% at $384.74 on Thursday, while the and were up 0.2% and 0.6%, respectively. Coming into Thursday trading, shares were down almost 10% over the past week, leaving investors wondering if Tesla investors were selling stock to fund purchases of SpaceX shares, which are expected to begin trading on Friday.
(Updates with new information from the first paragraph.) US equity indexes rose amid a broad-base
Caterpillar announced an 8% dividend hike after Wednesday's close, extending its streak of dividend increases to 32 years. CAT stock led Dow Jones Industrial Average winners early Thursday, rebounding from a key support level after suffering its sharpest loss since April 3, 2025, the day after President Donald Trump unveiled "Liberation Day" tariffs. Caterpillar is among 69 members of the S&P 500 that have increased dividends every year for the last 25 years.
Stocks looked poised for a rebound today, as investors shrug off mounting U.S.-Iran tensions and Oracle earnings that highlighted the huge cost of the AI boom.
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) may be forced to tackle rapidly rising inflation.
The market looked set to rebound on Thursday as investors piled back into tech stocks, which have taken a beating in recent days due to worries about higher inflation and the looming SpaceX IPO. “We remain constructive on the long-term bull market, but mounting technical evidence suggests an increased risk of a deeper pullback,” said LPL Financial’s chief technical strategist Adam Turnquist. The European Central Bank is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly three years, which could foreshadow future tightening by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.
Shares are mostly lower in Asia following another sell-off of artificial-intelligence stocks that dragged the U.S. market sharply lower. U.S. futures advanced and oil prices gained more than $1 a barrel.
The Nasdaq Composite tumbled again today after the latest inflation reading and higher oil prices failed to stop the bleeding. Chips were at the heart of the downturn, with the iShares Semiconductor ETF sinking another 3.7%, putting the chip stock benchmark 12% off its June 3 closing high. Industrials were the biggest laggard on Wednesday, dragged down by a swirl of other factors including rising oil prices, and expectations of a Fed interest rate hike.
<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow dropping almost 1.9%, the S&P 500 shedding 1.6% and the Nasdaq falling nearly 2%.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Renewed tensions in the Middle East added to investor uncertainty, with President Donald Trump saying the U.S. would attack Iran again "very hard" following a significant exchange of fire overnight.</p><p>Chip makers continued to drag on the market, extending their recent declines. Shares of Nvidia lost more than 3.5%, while Broadcom dropped more than 5%.</p><p>Gina Martin Adams is chief market strategist at HB Wealth.</p><p>"We've had a pretty tough go for the last few days in the equity market, really starting in the middle of last week. We started to see a little bit of rotation out of technology stocks as the earnings season is finally finished. That was clearly the big catalyst for gains. Now we're starting to see markets react a little bit to friction that has reemerged in the Middle East. So you've got two different influences on the equity market right now. Investors are rotating out of tech after the enormous run that it had had since the end of March, and Middle East tensions, which are flaring up again."</p><p>:: Oracle</p><p>In other tech names, shares of Oracle, down more than 2% at the close, dropped further in extended trading after </p><p>the company reported quarterly revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street expectations. Its results came amid concerns about Oracle's spending and AI-driven disruption to traditional software demand. The company also said it expects to raise nearly $40 billion through a combination of debt and equity financing in fiscal 2027.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Shares of Super Micro Computer nosedived 28% after the company announced plans to raise $7 billion through a series of equity and equity-linked transactions to fund component purchases for its growing AI server demand.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>And shares of trucking companies dipped after Amazon announced an expansion of its freight services, with shares of J.B. Hunt, XPO and Old Dominion all suffering losses.</p><p>Meanwhile, data from the Labor Department showed U.S. consumer prices increased 4.2% in the 12 months through May, the largest gain since April of 2023.</p><p>While the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at its policy meeting next week, investors are now pricing in at least one rate hike by the end of the year.</p></body>
US stock futures tumbled amid reports that the US struck Iran hours after President Trump had pledged to do so, saying negotiations were taking "too long."
US stock futures tumbled amid reports that the US struck Iran hours after President Trump had pledged to do so, saying negotiations were taking "too long."
Renewed fighting in the Middle East hit stocks and drove up oil futures, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst day since October, losing 1.9%, or around 953 points. The broader stock-market decline also came after data showed the consumer-price index rising 4.
AI hardware shares slide as investors digest Super Micro’s massive stock sale, hot inflation, and rising tensions in the Gulf, today, June 10, 2026.
The stock market is at critical levels amid AI fears, Trump comments. Oracle earnings beat late. The SpaceX IPO is about to begin its countdown.
Another sell-off for artificial-intelligence stocks dragged the U.S. market sharply lower. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6% Wednesday after giving up a brief modest gain in the morning. The index had its first back-to-back drop in three weeks.
Global stock markets mostly fell on Wednesday as fresh strikes in the Middle East, a jump in US inflation and a tech sell-off weighed on sentiment.While the headline figure jumped, the core reading that excludes energy prices that have surged due to war in the Middle East, held steady at 2.9 percent.
The stock market unwind dinged even the Dow on Wednesday after consumer price inflation met expectations and oil prices jumped. The blue-chip index fell 953 points, or 1.9%. “Tech is taking it on the chin again (now 2 out of the last 3 days) as people continue to de‑risk AI exposure across the board,” writes Mizuho’s Daniel O’Regan.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley stand to collect underwriting, trading, and advisory fees as a wave of AI-related IPOs—including SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic—heads to market.
Why did stocks sell off after a promising start? Rising energy prices and a presidential threat changed the market's mood.