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Investors are expressing positive vibes about U.S. equities, despite ongoing concerns that the market is overvalued. The report shows that 47% of retail clients are bullish on the U.S. stock market. A separate report from The CFP Board also suggests that clients are more optimistic about their financial outlook this summer than they were three months ago.
The tech stock rally continued, extending yesterday's gains, but today's rise looks a little different. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was up 1.1%. The tech sector led the S&P 500, up 3.1%. Unlike yesterday, it wasn't the Magnificent Seven stocks doing the heavy lifting.
REVIEW PREVIEW NEWSLETTER Fresh Record. Markets kicked off the first trading day of August on a strong note, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a new high on Monday. The pullback in oil prices held despite Iran’s denial of any peace talks taking place, allowing markets to look through the latest geopolitical back-and-forth and focus on a Magnificent 7 rally.
In fact, the PHLX Semiconductor Index saw its worst monthly performance since 2008 in July. The tech-heavy Nasdaq saw its worst July since 2006. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF also fell, with positive post-earnings moves unable to offset losses.
Buying all seven tech giants together made investors rich during the AI boom, but the basket trade has quietly become a drag on portfolios. Some of these companies are pulling ahead while others face serious questions about whether AI will ever pay off for them.
Rising Treasury yields are weighing on equities as the S&P 500 breaks key technical levels, while charts suggest the 10-year yield could climb back toward 5%.
$888.2 billion That's how much the Mag Seven tech stocks have collectively lost in market value today, as of midday trading. It's the biggest one-day market cap decline for those names since the tariff turmoil of April 2025.
The start to Magnificent Seven earnings season has been disastrous for tech investors. The Mag 7 is collectively down $888.2 billion in market capitalization, which would be the second-largest decline in value for the group on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Alphabet and Tesla reported earnings last night and Wall Street was less than impressed. Alphabet and Tesla both boosted their already hefty capital expenditure forecasts. "The market's reacting to not just the capex spend, but the free cash flow issue, and that spans across all the tech names," Laffer Tengler Investment's Nancy Tengler wrote.
The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF has crushed the broad market since its launch, but equal-weighting seven mega-cap giants cuts both ways, and 2026 is exposing exactly how badly that math can unravel when the group stops moving together.
The Magnificent Seven will again reign supreme over S&P 500 earnings, but their dominance is fading. As second-quarter earnings reports start to flow in, analysts expect the Magnificent Seven companies to grow earnings by a combined 31.1%. The other 493 S&P 500 companies are expected to increase earnings 22.8%, FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters wrote in a report.
Apple has unlocked a major AI opportunity in China in partnership with Alibaba, and the regulatory green light could become a powerful long-term catalyst for AAPL stock.
The PHLX Semiconductor Index hit a record high in late June and has since tumbled nearly 20%
Yesterday the PHLX Semiconductor Index ended the session down 2%, but the Nasdaq closed in the green, up 0.6%. Today the chip index is down roughly 4.4%, but the Nasdaq is also trading lower, down 1%.
Today’s S&P 500 gains wouldn’t suggest it, but most of the index’s components are actually in the red. The S&P 500 is up 0.4% while the Equal Weight S&P 500 is moving in the other direction, down 0.3%. Nearly two-thirds of names in the S&P 500 were down despite session gains, signaling that stocks on the rise are doing the heavy lifting, offsetting the larger group of laggards and then some.
Meta stock’s gains are leading the S&P 500 and the Magnificent Seven on Friday. The S&P 500 was up 0.2%, and the Dow gained 0.2%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was up 0.1%. Meta stock was up 5.8%, adding to its best week since 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
There were multiple recent catalysts that sent Meta stock higher from reports that the company plans to rent out its surplus compute to Mark Zuckerberg announcing the release of Muse Spark 1.1, and a reported internal memo about expanding its computing capacity and a new AI chip through a partnership with Broadcom. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF was up 1.2%, mostly thanks to Meta’s climb.
Apple and Nvidia are the world’s largest publicly traded companies by market capitalization, and they have the technical foundation to lead a Mag 7 resurgence.
All three major indexes are marching higher, following the Nasdaq’s lead. The tech heavy Nasdaq is up nearly 1.2%, followed by the S&P 500, up 0.8%. The Dow is up 196 points, or 0.4%. Broad participation is supporting the move higher, with the majority of Nasdaq and the S&P 500 components in the green.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the hottest financial sector right now, based on expectation and anticipation. The expectations are over its far-reaching productivity boosting capabilities to generate huge profits in practically every industrial sector that uses computers, and the anticipation is over AI’s commercial realization timing. The AI fervor is one of the biggest ... Apollo Sounds the Alarm: AI Profits Are a No-Show Outside Tech, and AI-Heavy ETFs Could Pay the Price
Memory stocks are in a bear market, but the Magnificent Seven are back on the offense — leading the market higher once again.
Meta surged more than 11% on a report that the company plans to sell its excess computing power to third parties. The stock is on track for its largest single-day gain since April 9, 2025, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Yahoo Finance looks at how major assets performed through the first half of the year.
The small-cap index is headed for its fourth consecutive record and is headed for its best first half of the year since the 90s, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The small cap index is up roughly 22% this year, its best performance since 1991, when it rose 26.6%.
This year's second quarter was a blockbuster period for tech stocks. The PHLX Semiconductor Index—which houses chip stocks like Nvidia and Broadcom—has climbed 81% through yesterday, putting it on track for its best quarter in history. Once darlings of the industry, some of the biggest names in tech have fallen out of favor with investors as they fret about these companies' big AI spending commitments.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq could snap their losing streaks, but it may come at the cost of some recent broadening. The S&P 500 was up 0.8%, but only 185 stocks in the index were rising. The Nasdaq was up 1.4%.
The market’s breadth—the number of advancing stocks versus declining ones—has still been positive, even on days when tech is a mess.
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