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Amid war and rising oil prices, RTX delivered the kind of quarters investors craved: A beat-and-raise. Financial guidance was raised, too. For 2026, RTX now expects sales of about $95.5 billion, up from prior guidance of $93 billion.
U. S. stock futures traded lower on Thursday as investors digested quarterly results from Alphabet, Tesla and IBM while awaiting the European Central Bank’s latest interest rate decision.
The June Inflation report doesn't reverse a 63-month (and counting) trend of above-target price increases.
Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, while the intensifying war with Iran pushed Brent crude past $96 a barrel. Samsung Electronics gained 3%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix advanced 3.4%. Technology companies led gains, with stocks in SoftBank Group climbing 3.3%.
The Nasdaq slowly sold off throughout the day as the market awaited new information from Alphabet and Tesla after hours, today, July 22, 2026.
U.S. stocks were little changed Wednesday as oil prices extended gains, while investors braced for a wave of major earnings. The S&P 500 slipped 10.24 points, or 0.14%, to 7498.96, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 146.30 points, or 0.57%, to 25690.90. Traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remained at less than 10% of its prewar levels.
The stock market took a breather on Wednesday ahead of a gauntlet of major earnings reports. The Dow was essentially flat. With Alphabet, Tesla, and Texas Instruments set to report results after the bell, there wasn’t much movement in markets.
What was working on Wall Street was pretty much a mirrored image of yesterday’s action. The Dow was up 64 points, or 0.1%. The top strategies were pure value, low volatility, and dividend stocks, while small-caps, growth, and momentum were lagging behind.
July 22 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened lower on Wednesday pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could
Brent crude briefly topped $95 a barrel Wednesday after an 11th consecutive night of U.S. strikes against Iran, with Fed rate hike odds climbing
TE Connectivity reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings and gave solid guidance for the coming quarter.
July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide
Inflation has become a broad-based problem, according to one of the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday following a rally on Wall Street, despite concerns about higher oil prices and inflation. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.9% to 67,511.12, after the government reported that both imports and exports rose last month from a year earlier, as the weakening yen raised the value of both when converted from dollars to yen. More gains for makers of computer chips and other companies benefiting from the artificial-intelligence boom carried Wall Street higher.
3M (MMM) raised its 2026 profit forecast on July 21, as stronger demand and price increases helped its safety and industrial business post a better second quarter. The company reported adjusted earnings of $2.40 a share on sales of $6.5 billion. It now expects full-year adjusted earnings of $8.80 ...
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped over 5%, its best single-day gain in a month, as bargain buyers piled onto semiconductor stocks.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Tuesday, with the Dow gaining roughly three-quarters of a percent, the S&P 500 adding nearly nine-tenths of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing about 1.3%.</p><p>Gains in recently battered semiconductor stocks pushed the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index more than 5% higher. It was the index's second consecutive advance after ending Friday more than 20% below its record high, reached in late June.</p><p>Meanwhile, investors looked past a 2% rise in oil prices as well as a fresh tariff battle, after President Donald Trump slapped a 50% duty on a wide range of imports from Canada.</p><p>Eric Parnell is chief market strategist at Great Valley Advisor Group.</p><p>"It's another day in the market and it's another tariff headline coming out of Washington, DC... But we've been down this road many, many times with tariffs over the last 12 to 18 months. And on a micro level, we can dissect what's the implication going to be for the beverage industry or the food industry associated with some of these tariffs. But what we've really seen, and we've also seen it with the Iran conflict, once the market gets comfortable with its reaction function, then it largely dismisses these headlines. And I think we should continue to expect this going forward."</p><p>Stocks on the move Tuesday included Super Micro Computer, which closed 7% higher and climbed another 16% in extended trading after the AI server maker said it expects gross margins for the quarter to be above its previous forecast.</p><p>Shares of 3M gained more than 7% after the industrial giant lifted its full-year profit forecast.</p><p>And shares of Hasbro jumped nearly 9% after the company raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts, betting on demand for its digital gaming and "Magic: The Gathering" products.</p><p>The focus this week now turns to results from tech giants Alphabet, Tesla and Intel.</p></body>
U.S. stocks rose broadly as chip shares staged a strong recovery and investors positioned for a wave of major technology earnings.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.3%. Micron Technology and Nvidia were the two strongest forces lifting the market as AI stocks climbed for a second straight day after tumbling the week before. The Nasdaq composite rose 329.13 points, or 1.3%, to 25,837.21.
Demand for GE Vernova’s power generation equipment amid the AI data center building boom has sent shares to levels no one expected. Now, how the stock reacts to earnings on Wednesday can help tell investors if the AI trade is alive and well, or if more pain is coming to many stocks, beyond shares of Vernova. It’s an important report for Vernova, with shares above $1,000, up roughly 700% since the company was spun out of GE Aerospace in 2024.
Northrop Grumman reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and raised its full-year financial guidance.
