Wall Street’s main indexes opened muted on Monday after a record-setting rally last week, as renewed concerns over stalled US-Iran negotiations pushed oil prices higher and weighed on investor sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 56 points, or 0.11%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite also edged down 0.02% and 0.17%, respectively.
Micron stock price continued firing in all cylinders today, May 11, as demand for its products soared. MU jumped by over 6% to $790, continuing an uptrend that started in April last year when it bottomed at $64. Still, despite the surge, there are signs that the company is still a bargain. Micron stock is
At the start of 2026, most investors would have confidently picked Nvidia stock as most likely to lead the market. Jensen Huang still owns the AI stage, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) remains the default name in data-center spend, and the company has been expanding its CPU ambitions with Meta while touting a $1 trillion AI-chip opportunity
Some of Wall Street’s biggest upside calls are not sitting in the mega-cap names. They are hiding in small, volatile stocks with thin balance sheets, limited operating history and one big event ahead. That is what makes them interesting, as in each case, the investment thesis comes down to a binary trigger: a trial result,
The world’s biggest oil companies delivered a turbulent set of first‑quarter earnings, underscoring how the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have distorted both profits and physical flows. While Shell and BP beat expectations on the back of strong trading and higher prices, ExxonMobil and Chevron reported headline profit declines,
SaaSpocalypse – a fear-driven sell-off where investors worried artificial intelligence (AI) would cannibalize traditional software-as-a-service providers – is finally hitting a wall. While the iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF (IGV) remains down for the year, a powerful 14% surge over the last month suggests a structural turnaround. According to JPMorgan technical strategist Jason Hunter, the software
Famed investor Jim Cramer says “there are wins and misses” in digital advertising and marketing automation space – and Trade Desk (TTD) is evidently the latter. His comments came after The Trade Desk reported first-quarter results showing a 12% increase in revenue to $689 million. However, the revenue growth was largely overshadowed by a weaker-than-expected
Shares of Intel surged sharply on Friday after a report said the company had reached a preliminary agreement with Apple to manufacture some of the chips used in the iPhone maker’s devices. According to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter, Apple and Intel had been engaged in intensive talks for
Japanese markets reopened after the Golden Week holidays to a powerful AI-driven rally on Thursday, with SoftBank stock soaring as investors rushed to catch up with gains already seen across global technology stocks. Shares in the Japanese investment group jumped 16.4% on Thursday, according to market commentary, after a long holiday stretch in which US
Japanese stocks went parabolic on Thursday, helped by the soaring Softbank stock price and the rising possibility of a deal between the United States and Iran. The Nikkei 225 Index jumped to ¥62,836, bringing the year-to-date gains to 16.67%. Why Japan stocks are pumping today The Nikkei 225 Index and Topix are in a strong