Cathie Wood, chief of Ark Investment Management, is no stranger to buying into momentum. That’s what she did in the past week, initiating a position in a tech stock that has rallied more than 40% over the past month. In 2025, the flagship Ark Innovation ETF gained 35.49%, far outpacing the S&P ...
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Stocks are already up more than 10% this year. Most strategists would call that a good run and leave it alone. Wells Fargo looked at the same market and decided it wasn't done yet. The bank raised its year-end 2026 target for the S&P 500 to 7,950, up from 7,300, implying roughly 5.2% more ...
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There have been renewed talks about whether tariffs could send us into another phase of trade wars. And while it’s up for debate as to whether a trade war 2.0, so to speak, has already arrived, I do think that investors shouldn’t panic over concerns that further tariffs will further fan the flame that is ... “They Forgot to Protect Our Industries With TARIFFS!” — Does a Trump Trade War 2.0 Loom?
The stock market works to build on a rebound from support as Micron Technology and FedEx report and the S&P indexes rebalance.
Stocks have quickly moved on from Kevin Warsh’s hawkish first meeting as Federal Reserve Chairman. But other parts of the markets haven't.
Primerica trades at $281.69 per share and has stayed right on track with the overall market, gaining 8.8% over the last six months. At the same time, the S&P 500 has returned 8.9%.
Zurn Elkay trades at $50.19 and has moved in lockstep with the market. Its shares have returned 5.7% over the last six months while the S&P 500 has gained 8.9%.
Historical trends suggest inflation will be far stickier than anticipated.
(Bloomberg) -- Global stocks are ending a strong week on a cautious note as relief over an interim peace deal between the US and Iran gave way to a focus on the significant hurdles that remain to secure a lasting agreement.Most Read from BloombergRead the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and IranModi Warns of ‘Shortage of Trust’ Ahead of Trump MeetingTrump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Peace DealUS and Iran Delay Nuclear Talks as Lebanon Clashes WorsenUS Tells ASML It’s
CEO Raj Subramaniam has broken down the delivery company’s business silos and elevated its stock price.
Cathie Wood, head of Ark Investment Management, is known for making bold bets on disruptive tech companies. Yet Wood recently reduced one of her favorite investments, Palantir, after the stock fell roughly 28% year to date. In 2025, the flagship Ark Innovation ETF gained 35.49%, far outpacing the ...
Micron, one of the hottest stocks in 2026, is on deck to report quarterly results in the coming days. But how have sales and EPS expectations evolved?
Comcast’s cash returns remain a key support, with July earnings set to test whether cable trends and Peacock losses are moving in the right direction.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes closed higher on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than 1% and the Nasdaq gaining nearly 2%.</p><p>The session began with oil prices sliding to their lowest levels since early March after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement that extends the April ceasefire by another 60 days.</p><p>But Alexander Morris, CEO and chief investment officer at F/m Investments, warns that lower oil prices won't immediately ease other inflationary pressures.</p><p>"Certainly energy prices are set to come down and meaningfully so in the short run. But energy prices have been elevated for a while, and that influences way more than just the cost at the pump. That's the cost of fertilizer for the Northern Hemisphere. All of the plants that needed to be planted and immediately fertilized, they've been in the ground for weeks. So that is now baked into the price of our future soft commodities, grains, corn, soybeans, et cetera. So we're going to see this reverberate."</p><p>Investors on Thursday were still assessing Kevin Warsh's first press conference as Federal Reserve Chair a day earlier, in which he stressed the central bank would keep its focus on price stability but provide less guidance on the path of interest rates.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Among individual stock moves, semiconductor companies outperformed the rest of the market, with Intel's shares jumping more than 10.5% to a record high. President Donald Trump said Apple had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture its chips in the U.S. </p><p>Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX shed 3.5%, falling for a second straight day. The stock had rallied sharply earlier in the week following last Friday's blockbuster market debut.</p><p>And shares of Kroger tumbled almost 8.5% after the grocer reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and kept its annual forecasts unchanged.</p><p>The U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday.</p></body>
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF's heavy tech concentration could become a liability in an extended high-inflation environment.
Micron stock, a huge winner in 2025, continues to probe all-time highs amid a "supercycle" for memory and storage stocks thanks to AI demand.
$1.3 trillion S&P 500 companies reported that level of capex for 2025, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. That figure includes $412 billion for just five large hyperscalers: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle.
U.S. stocks rose in early Thursday trading, rebounding from the previous session’s Fed-driven selloff as falling oil prices and optimism surrounding the Iran peace deal boosted investor sentiment.
Oil prices continued tumbling on Thursday after President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The deal starts a 60-day negotiation period centered on Iran's nuclear program. It requires the U.S. to lift its blockade of Iran's ports, free up frozen Iranian funds, waive sanctions of Iranian oil sales and prevail upon Israel to cease military operations in Lebanon.
Waymo is recalling 3,871 robo-taxis to correct software that might allow a vehicle to enter a freeway construction zone, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notice. For starters, it illustrates the size of the Waymo robo-taxi fleet. The Alphabet -owned ride-hailing network operator is expanding across the country, along with other companies, including Tesla Amazon.com -backed Zoox, and others.
June 18 (Reuters) - Wall Street's major indexes advanced on Thursday with technology shares leading gains as optimism about a Middle East peace deal offset worries about a hawkish Federal Reserve
Futures markets pointed higher ahead of the open, with S&P 500 E-mini contracts up 0.72% and Nasdaq 100 E-mini futures rising 1.36%, according to Reuters, as investors partly unwound Wednesday's sharp selloff. The S&P 500 lost 1.21% on Wednesday to close at 7,420.10 and the Nasdaq fell 1.34% to 26,021.66 after the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.75% but nine officials projected at least one hike by year-end, stripping away prior language that had flagged likely cuts. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
The video-sharing platform says it will change its name and tweak its business structure after buying German AI company Northern Data.
US stocks are set to rebound on Thursday after Wall Street suffered a sharp sell-off following the first meeting of a new Federal Reserve regime, with investors taking comfort from signs of a de-escalation in the Middle East. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 have risen 1.3%, while the S&P 500...
Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 1.6% Thursday as traders looked past the Fed's hawkish signals and oil prices fell on the peace pact
Dick's has followed the market’s trajectory closely, rising in tandem with the S&P 500 over the past six months. The stock has climbed by 6.8% to $224.38 per share while the index has gained 10.9%.
(Corrects days of the week throughout the text) June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rebounded on Thursday after the previous session's selloff as optimism about a Middle East peace deal