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S&P 500 Closes at a Record for a Third Straight Winning Week Despite the Steepest Retail Sales Drop in a Year — Reddit Jumps 12% on S&P 500 Inclusion, SanDisk Extends Its AI-Storage Rally
Aug 14, 2026
July Wholesale Prices Come In Flat, Cutting Fed Hike Odds to 40% — But Cisco Slides 5% on Margins and Oil Drops Below $82 on an OPEC Demand Cut
Aug 13, 2026
July CPI Cools to 3.4%, Sparking an Early Rally as CoreWeave Jumps 18% — But $83 Oil and the Iran Standoff Keep the Fed's September Call in Doubt
Aug 12, 2026
Nvidia Sheds $130B on AI Financing Fears as Oil Tops $82 and Wall Street Slips From Records Ahead of Wednesday's CPI
Aug 11, 2026
AI Cloud Stocks Roar Back and Oil Climbs on Iran Standoff as Wall Street Holds Near Records Ahead of Wednesday's CPI
Aug 10, 2026
Weak July Jobs Report Slams the Brakes on Fed Hike Bets as Wall Street Caps Its Best Week Since April
Aug 7, 2026
Wall Street Splits as SanDisk, AppLovin and Datadog Sink on Guidance - and the Fed's Own Credibility Takes a Hit
Aug 6, 2026
Wall Street Hits Fresh Records as Shopify Soars 28%, But AMD and SpaceX Slide Despite Beating Estimates
Aug 5, 2026
S&P 500 Hits Fresh Record as Palantir Soars 18% and Caterpillar Tops $20 Billion in Sales
Aug 4, 2026
Amazon Crosses $3 Trillion as Iran De-Escalation Sparks Broad Rally, Oil Sinks 6%
Aug 3, 2026
Apple Sinks 8.6%, Amazon Soars 14.5% as Wall Street Closes Nearly Flat
Jul 31, 2026
Stocks Rebound as Microsoft Surges, Meta Slides, and the Fed's Vote Splits 9-3
Jul 30, 2026
Iran Strikes US Forces, Oil Spikes Past $89, as Fed Holds Rates Amid Hawkish Dissent
Jul 29, 2026
Kospi Plunge Triggers Trading Halts as Nvidia's OpenAI Backstop Revives Circular-AI Fears
Jul 28, 2026
Oil Sinks 6% on US-Iran Truce as Nvidia's $250 Billion OpenAI Bet Rattles Chip Stocks
Jul 27, 2026
New Tariffs Take Effect and Oil Retreats From $100 as Wall Street Steadies
Jul 24, 2026
Oil Tops $100 and Big Tech Capex Fears Trigger Broad Sell-Off
Jul 23, 2026
Oil Surges Toward $95 and Rate-Hike Odds Climb Ahead of Alphabet, Tesla Earnings
Jul 22, 2026
Chip Stocks Lift Wall Street, But Danaher and Halliburton Show Beats Aren't Enough
Jul 21, 2026
Chip Stocks Roar Back From Bear Market as Wall Street Braces for Tesla and Alphabet Earnings
Jul 20, 2026
Semiconductors Slide Into a Bear Market as Netflix Erases a 9% Earnings Crash to Close in the Green
Jul 17, 2026
TSMC, UnitedHealth and GE Aerospace All Beat and Raise Guidance — Wall Street Sells the News Anyway as Chip Stocks Drag the Nasdaq Lower
Jul 16, 2026
PayPal Soars 19% on a $53 Billion Takeover Bid as ASML's Blowout Quarter and Cooling Wholesale Inflation Lift Stocks Despite a Fifth Day of U.S.-Iran Strikes
Jul 15, 2026
Bank Earnings Blow Past Estimates and CPI Cools as Warsh Makes His Fed Debut Amid Iran Oil Shock
Jul 14, 2026
Iran Closes the Strait of Hormuz as Oil Jumps 4%, Overshadowing SK Hynix's Record Nasdaq Debut
Jul 13, 2026
SK Hynix Soars in Record Nasdaq Debut as Micron's $250 Billion AI Bet Fuels a Third Straight Rally
Jul 10, 2026
Markets Shrug Off a Second Night of Iran Strikes as SK Hynix Prices $28B Nasdaq Debut
Jul 9, 2026
Trump Declares Iran Ceasefire "Over": Oil Spikes, Dow Sheds 617, Fed Minutes Turn Hawkish
Jul 8, 2026
Chip Stocks Sink as Samsung's Record Profit Gets Sold; Oil Jumps on Hormuz Attacks
Jul 7, 2026
Dow Closes Above 53,000 for the First Time as Chip Stocks Lead a Broad Rally
Jul 6, 2026
Markets Closed for July 4th After Dow's Record Close, Chip Slide, and a Hawkish Fed
Jul 3, 2026
Dow Hits Record as Soft Jobs Report Cools Rate-Hike Bets, Chips Slide
Jul 2, 2026
Second Half Opens Mixed as Jobs Data Looms
Jul 1, 2026
S&P 500 Closes Out a Strong First Half
Jun 30, 2026
Stocks Drift Higher as Quarter-End Rebalancing Kicks In
Jun 29, 2026