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AI Stock Rally Faces Reality Check as Earnings Beats Fall Flat

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment is weak, declining to ‘extremely bearish’ on SPY and ‘bearish’ on QQQ.

Seven of the worst performers for the month were still up by triple digits for 2026.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Friday as Netflix stock plunged on earnings. SpaceX shares sold off on a canceled test flight.

U.S. markets bled amid rising AI concerns after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing massively hiked its capital expenditures for 2026.

SpaceX has surrendered every post-IPO gain in five weeks, landing back at its offering price while one analyst quietly models a valuation that dwarfs the entire cloud computing industry. The question is whether that call is visionary or delusional.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Tuesday ahead of the June CPI inflation report. IBM stock plunged 23% on earnings.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index fell Monday, while tech futures rallied. Micron stock and Sandisk rebounded in premarket trading.

U.S. private employers added 98,000 jobs in June, according to ADP, as investors await Thursday’s payrolls report for clues on the labor market and interest rates.

A friend of Paula Pant’s bought SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) at $171, sold at $191, and walked away with roughly $400 to $500 in profit. Then he walked away convinced that stock-picking is easy. On a recent Afford Anything Q&A, financial commentator Joe Salci summed up the problem in four words. “He learned the wrong lesson,” Salci ... ‘He Learned the Wrong Lesson’: Why the SpaceX IPO Windfall Is a Trap for Everyday Investors

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Wednesday after Tuesday's tech sell-off. FedEx dived on earnings.

Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi has warned that America’s stark economic divergence remains “firmly intact,” as newly updated data reveal a bruising financial reality in which the bottom 80% of earners are losing the battle against inflation, while top earners dominate national consumption. The Spending Divide Deepens According to Zandi’s updated estimates, households in the top 20% of the income distribution—defined as those earning over $175k annually—now account for an “astoundin

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped, while tech futures plunged as Micron, Nvidia and Sandisk dived premarket.

Tuesday's catalysts include flash PMIs, Richmond Fed data, ADP weekly employment, Treasury bill and 2-year note auctions, and May money supply.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index wavered Wednesday ahead of the Fed's decision and Fed Chair Warsh's comments. SpaceX stock rallied.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Tuesday ahead of the Fed's two-day policy meeting. SpaceX stock surged in premarket trading.

Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices all ended the week ending June 5, lower.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Friday ahead of the May jobs report. Lululemon stock plunged on earnings.

Andrew Sather of The Investing for Beginners Podcast recently made a point that should reshape how investors think about recession headlines. "When people say there’s a recession, they’re saying it 6 months after it happens. Like, that’s the literal definition of it. You have to wait 6 months," he said on the episode Back to ... Worried About a Recession? Here’s Why Selling When Economists Call It is Already Too Late

Andrew Sather of The Investing for Beginners Podcast recently made a point that should reshape how investors think about recession headlines. “When people say there’s a recession, they’re saying it 6 months after it happens. Like, that’s the literal definition of it. You have to wait 6 months,” he said on the episode Back to ... Worried About a Recession? Here’s Why Selling When Economists Call It is Already Too Late

For much of the post-2008 era, Wall Street treated zero interest rates as a permanent feature of the landscape, a kind of monetary gravity that pulled every asset price higher. Stocks ran. Bonds ran. Private credit ran. The benchmark S&P 500 vaulted off its 2009 low while the technology-packed Nasdaq Composite did even better. But ... Former Fed Official: The Fed’s Biggest Mistake Wasn’t Rate Cuts. It Was Keeping Them Low Too Long.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -1.17%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.96%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.64%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -1.07%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Overbought warnings come ahead of a massive tech and retail earnings lineup.

The 2020s might enter the history books as an era where the market skipped the stairs and kept taking the elevator either way. The recent surge since the beginning of Q2 is the best example. According to BullTheory, U.S. equities added nearly $10 trillion in market capitalization in just 39 trading days. Yet, the realized volatility has become highly asymmetric. On up days, it is running roughly seven times as much as on down days. Historically, that kind of imbalance tends to appear near exhaus

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was down 0.5% and the actively tr

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Thursday after weekly jobless claims. AI stock Arm dived on earnings.