Yahoo Finance's Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Senior Business Reporter Brooke DiPalma join Julie Hyman on Market Catalysts to break down the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, what it means for the Federal Reserve's rate-cut outlook, and how Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's testimony could shape expectations for monetary policy.
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IBM stock collapses 25% after the company preannounced its Q2 earnings results.
Shares of IBM are headed for their worst day since the "Black Monday" market crash of 1987. The stock plunged some 24% in morning trading after the company issued a profit warning. IBM said the performance of its software and infrastructure business fell short of expectations in the second quarter, and the company didn’t react quickly enough to the changing market conditions.
The Dow is caught in a tug-of-war between strong bank earnings and IBM's historic drop. The Dow's top performer was Goldman Sachs, which popped 5.5% after reporting record results. Goldman is the heaviest weighted component in the Dow.
CPI inflation was far below views, lowering Fed rate hike odds. Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said he'll "get monetary policy right."
IBM stock was heading for its largest same-day plunge in nearly 40 years on Tuesday after the company’s preliminary second-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue missed analysts’ targets. In a letter to shareholders, CEO Arvind Krishna explained that the shortfall was largely driven by the company’s infrastructure business. “What played out was worse than our expectations,” Krishna wrote.
FEATURE The artificial-intelligence trade appeared to be reignited Tuesday as investors digested a slew of bank earnings reports ahead of the consumer-price index inflation report for June. International Business Machines sank 23% after the company’s preliminary second-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue missed analysts’ targets.
Wall Street looked set for a mixed open as investors digested a 23% plunge in IBM shares, another jump in oil prices and the start of the second-quarter earnings season. Dow Jones futures were down 281 points, or 0.5%, while S&P 500 futures were 0.1% lower. Nasdaq futures were pointing...
IBM reported preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2 billion, well below analyst expectations, as large deals failed to close on time
By Ragini Mathur and Avinash P July 14 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Dow futures fell on Tuesday in choppy trading as investors sifted through earnings reports from Wall Street's biggest banks, while IBM
IBM said on Tuesday it expects second-quarter revenue of $17.2 billion, according to preliminary results. Analysts expect the company to report revenue of $17.86 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. Shares of the company fell 14% in premarket trading.
Fresh inflation data, Fed rate hike bets, a shaky AI trade, and a reescalating US-Iran war factored into Tuesday's stock market moves.
Ten months ago, in September 2025, Starbucks walked into 11,000 stores with NomadGo’s inventory Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that promised 99% accuracy and counted up to eight times faster than a human. After 9 months, in May 2026, according to Reuters, an internal newsletter retired the ...
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IBM and Red Hat commercially launched Lightwell on July 8, turning a $5 billion pledge into two products that enterprises can actually buy. Most corporate security promises stay abstract for months before a product ships. This one produced a live catalog, a pricing structure, and a named client ...
International Business Machines (IBM) has spent years trying to convince investors that it deserves a new label. For Wall Street, IBM long looked like a legacy hardware and consulting company with limited upside. As IBM shifts deeper into higher-margin software, AI infrastructure, and free cash ...
IQM Quantum Computers is breaking into the U.S. market at a time when federal support for quantum technology has been growing.
International Business Machines will release its second-quarter earnings next month, and analysts anticipate a single-digit bottom-line growth.
June 23 gave me three reasons to pay closer attention to International Business Machines (IBM), also known simply as “Big Blue.” All three arrived together in a period of less than 48 hours. June 23, JPMorgan analyst Brian Essex upgraded IBM to Overweight from Neutral, raising his price target to ...
IBM soared in pre-market trading after announcing a non-chip computing breakthrough.
Strategic federal moves to take direct equity stakes in public quantum developers cement high-performance computing as an urgent national security priority.
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip, calling it a landmark moment for the semiconductor industry. IBM stock rose.
IBM on Thursday unveiled what it said was the world's first technology capable of producing chips smaller than one nanometer, as tech companies race to build semiconductors that can handle increasingly demanding AI workloads. The new chip technology, which bolsters IBM's position to compete with contract chipmakers TSMC and Intel, has a transistor architecture of 0.7 nanometers, or 7 angstroms. Last week, Intel said the new generation of its 18A manufacturing process, which makes 1.8 nanometer chips, moved into risk production, the testing phase before commercial manufacturing.
Micron (MU) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +17.39% and +12.91%, respectively, for the quarter ended May 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn quantum computing into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project.

Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman takes a closer look at some of Tuesday's trending tickers and stories, including JPMorgan (JPM) upgrading IBM (IBM), Carnival's (CCL) second quarter revenue missing estimates, and AMC (AMC) stock plunging.
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