The stock market hit new highs amid a win streak. AI and metals led while Google tested support. Palo Alto jumped late on earnings.
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Investors weigh softer WATCHMAN and urology demand against a still-active device pipeline and capital deployment moves, today, May 27, 2026.
Bitcoin dropped roughly 2% on Wednesday to hover near $75,500 per token.
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, parting ways with their European counterparts, and falling WTI crude prices diverged from spiking Brent crude prices as
Stocks were on track to rise Thursday as investors digested strong results from artificial intelligence chip maker Nvidia and hoped for progress in the peace talks between the U.S. and Iran. The three major indexes snapped a three-session losing streak on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. was in the final stage of negotiations with Iran to end the war in the Middle East. Moves early Thursday suggest that the market has concluded that Nvidia’s first-quarter earnings were good, but not good enough to keep the AI rally going.
By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, May 21 (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Thursday as some vessels resumed passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while forecast-beating results at Nvidia and a suspended
Nvidia stock fell late despite strong earnings. Elon Musk's SpaceX released its filing for a mammoth IP. Stocks rallied Wednesday as oil prices dived on Iran hopes.
U.S. markets are poised to open with gains on Wednesday as bond yields slipped and oil prices fell. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.4% while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.2% higher and Nasdaq futures jumped 0.7%.
Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street as inflation fears pushed up the cost of US government borrowing to its highest level since 2007.
U.S. stock futures were pointing to small losses amid fear that without a diplomatic breakthrough on Iran, oil prices will keep rising and push up inflation.
Markets were on course to open in the red Tuesday as the chip-stocks rally that has powered gains for much of the year continued to lose steam. Stock futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq were down 0.3%, having finished 1.5% lower the previous session led lower by a Big Tech selloff. Dow Industrial futures were falling 34 points, or 0.1%, while S&P 500 futures dropped 0.2%.
Wall Street weighed inflation concerns and counted down to Nvidia earnings.
US stock futures traded flat as Wall Street weighed inflation concerns and counted down to Nvidia (NVDA) earnings.
Shares of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals are down about 11%, dragging the Nasdaq composite, after the company’s experimental melanoma drug failed a pivotal clinical trial. The company said that its drug fianlimab, when combined with an approved cancer drug, didn't keep patients’ disease from worsening significantly longer than Merck’s Keytruda.
Stocks looked set to fall again on Monday as investors continued to worry about higher inflation, with the U.S. and Iran seemingly making no progress in their ongoing peace talks. The three major indexes tumbled on Friday, dragged down by soaring U.S. Treasury yields. The lack of a peace deal to end the conflict in the Middle East has caused investors to fret about a flare-up in inflation, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz still disrupted.
The stock market is near highs but oil prices and yields are headwinds with Trump issuing new Iran threats. Nvidia and Walmart earnings loom.
Stock futures in the U.S. and global markets were lower with little information emerging from the Trump-Xi summit.
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Asian shares dived on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs and rising bets
FEATURE Dynatrace stock was falling following the software company’s latest earnings report as an earnings beat failed to reverse an extensive slide in the stock price. Dynatrace which operates a cloud observability platform, posted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of 41 cents a share, ahead of the 39 cents analysts had anticipated.
Chip stocks got beat up after the latest inflation report. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 0.7%, the S&P 500 was down 0.2% while the Dow gained 56 points, or 0.1%. Notably, almost all major chip stocks were down, barring Nvidia.