Personalis stock popped Friday on a rumor Merck and at least two other suitors are trying to buy the small genomics company.
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The Nasdaq sunk 1.5%, while the S&P fell 1.2%. The Dow dropped 1%, or 547 points. "We end the week with risk-on morphing into risk-off as the selloff in global chipmakers intensifies and investor sentiment is hit by yet another day of attacks and counterattacks in the Middle East," Dave Rosenberg at Rosenberg Research said.
The biggest problems aren’t caused by what you don’t know, but what, as Mark Twain put it, “you know for sure that just ain’t so.” It’s there in the major indexes, where S&P 500 futures were down 0.9% in early Friday trading, while Nasdaq Composite futures were off 1.9%, and nearing correction territory. Chip stocks were supposed toe be unstoppable, driven by shortages and insatiable demand for artificial intelligence.
Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Friday, pointing to a second straight day of losses on Wall Street as investors continued to reassess lofty technology valuations following a string of disappointing corporate updates tied to artificial intelligence spending.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Friday as Netflix stock plunged on earnings. SpaceX shares sold off on a canceled test flight.
News of the Day for July 17, 2026
8am: Wall Street futures lower as tech rout spreads Wall Street looked set for a sharply weaker open on Friday as a global sell-off in semiconductor stocks gathered pace, with disappointing corporate earnings adding to the risk-off mood. Futures pointed to the Nasdaq opening around 1.5%...
Overseas stocks and US stock futures fell sharply Friday after technological advances announced by a Chinese artificial intelligence company intensified concerns that the AI spending spree driving this year’s market rally could be at risk.
Ahead of the bell Wall Street looks set to be headed for the red with US stock futures falling on Friday, leaving the major indices on course for weekly losses as the semiconductor sell-off rolled on. Dow Jones futures slipped 0.6%, and S&P 500 contracts dropped around...
SpaceX investors can’t catch a break. Shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company were down in premarket trading on Friday after the company scrubbed the thirteenth test of Starship. Musk said some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic abort.
Wall Street futures pointed lower pre-bell Friday as traders again weighed heavy chip-sector capital
Stocks looked set to fall on Friday as investors carried on ditching chip makers, putting the market on track to extend its slump from the previous session. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.8%. The three major indexes all closed in the red on Thursday, dragged down by a selloff in semiconductor heavyweights including Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, and Micron.
U. S. stock index futures traded lower on Friday as investors remained cautious about the outlook for artificial intelligence spending while monitoring renewed military escalation between the United States and Iran.
US stocks were on track for weekly losses, as the semiconductor sector continued to drag markets lower.
The Dow is up about 9% year-to-date, while the Nasdaq has gained roughly 11%, and the S&P 500 is up about 10%.
Chip stocks and other tech trades have been volatile lately. But earnings growth for the S&P 500 should still be strong. The broadening of the rally is for real.
Asian shares skidded Friday, with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 down 5% as heavy selling of computer chipmakers and other AI-related shares dragged markets lower. Stocks related to artificial intelligence have been under pressure for weeks because of worries that their prices have shot too high and that voracious demand for computer memory and processors may not be sustainable if AI ends up not producing as much profit and productivity as promised. Oil prices surged as fighting in the Middle East intensified, while U.S. futures slipped.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes ended lower on Thursday, with the Dow dropping two-tenths of a percent, the S&P 500 shedding about half a percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq losing almost one-and-a-half percent.</p><p>Chip stocks tumbled despite bellwether TSMC posting a 77% jump in quarterly profit, it's shares falling more than 2%.</p><p>Mel Casey, senior portfolio manager at FBB Capital Partners, said the pullback demonstrated the lofty expectations for a sector that has soared by nearly 70% so far this year. </p><p>"You just have so many investors in the same trade here and really banking on every little component of the value chain, like, humming along at maximum pace. And so anything that's a little bit shy of, say, the whisper, or anything that's as good as expected but not better than expected is seen almost as a disappointment. And so that's what you're seeing today. But there's nothing you could really point to in the Taiwan Semi report to feel bearish about."</p><p>Memory-chip makers were among the biggest laggards, with SanDisk, Western Digital, Seagate Technology and Intel down between about five-and-a-half and twelve-and-a-half percent.</p><p>:: Netflix</p><p>Elsewhere in the market, shares of Netflix tumbled more than 7% in extended trading after the streaming giant's third-quarter revenue and earnings projections hovered below Wall Street targets. The company also said it would reduce the amount of information it discloses about consumers' viewing hours as it seeks new avenues of growth.</p><p>Shares of UnitedHealth Group closed higher after the company beat Wall Street earnings estimates and hiked its 2026 forecast.</p><p>But shares of United Airlines fell as surging oil prices weighed on its forward guidance.</p><p>Meanwhile, generally upbeat economic data on Thursday showed solid core retail sales, a drop in jobless claims and surging manufacturing activity in the Northeast.</p></body>
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