A remarkable two-month sprint higher for major stock-market indexes encountered its first major hiccup on Friday as the Nasdaq Composite plummeted more than 1,121 points — the biggest one day point drop on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
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Benjamin Cowen, the analyst widely credited with calling the 2021 crypto collapse, has issued another sobering read on the market. The warning capped a punishing week. It began when Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) made its first Bitcoin (BTC) sale in years. It might have been a tiny 32 BTC against its ...
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FedEx Freight bucked the market trend on Friday, making it one of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 on a tough day for the market. Shares of the company, which spun out of FedEx on June 1, gained 6.4% on Friday, closing at $167.84, while the and fell 2.6% and 4.2%. FedEx Freight is likely avoiding the drawdown because shares are very new.

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) sink in Friday trading, the Nasdaq Composite leading losses and closing over 1,100 points lower (4.18%). The market is reacting to May's overwhelmingly positive labor data — 172,000 jobs added the US economy vs. estimates of 88,000 — raising investor concerns that the Federal Reserve may be inclined to hike interest rates. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre breaks down the day's biggest market moves.
U.S.-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, losing over $1 trillion in market value, with deep losses in AI heavy hitters including Nvidia, Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices, as Broadcom's weak report earlier this week reverberated across Wall Street. The PHLX chip index slumped almost 8.5% in afternoon trading, putting it on track for its deepest one-day loss since Wall Street's "Liberation Day" tariff selloff in April 2025. Friday's selloff added to losses on Thursday after Broadcom gave a quarterly report that showed demand for its custom AI chips business falling short of lofty expectations.
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Transportation stocks offered a rare bright spot in an otherwise bleeding market today. The Dow Jones Transportation Average, which tracks 20 large U.S. companies ranging from airlines to railroads to truckers, was up about 1.
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The Nasdaq dropped nearly 3% after a stronger-than-expected hiring report. Strong employment data has traders bracing for a Fed rate hike.
A stronger-than-expected jobs report sent Wall Street tumbling as investors increasingly bet on rate increases from the Federal Reserve.
Technology stocks tumbled sharply Friday as the Nasdaq headed for its worst week in a year. Nasdaq Inc. shed nearly 2% in afternoon trades, as Nvidia, Micron and Sandisk fell. Tech behemoths like Amazon and Google edged lower.
It’s been easy to call a bottom in Lululemon Athletica in recent years–just keep waiting another day. The specialty athleticwear company, which had already dropped nearly 40% year to date alone before it reported fiscal first-quarter earnings after the bell Thursday, didn’t reward bargain hunters. The quarter itself was better than expected, but the full-year outlook was the culprit: Lululemon said it will earn between $10.95 and $11.15 a share on revenue that will be flat or down 1%, translating into $11 billion to $11.15 billion.
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Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, briefly dipped below $60,000 before staging a slight recovery. The largest cryptocurrency traded as low as $59,775 around midday Friday, its lowest intraday level since October, 2024.
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Investing.com -- OPEC crude production fell in May to its lowest level in at least 37 years as a US blockade of Iran and disruptions in the Persian Gulf continued to limit output, according to a Bloomberg survey released Friday.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.90%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.32%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.85%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -1.07%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...