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US Stocks Cap a Strong Week With Broad Friday Gains Led by Bloom Energy, PayPal Takeover Chatter
US equities finished the week on solid footing Friday, with the S&P 500 rising 0.51% to close at 7,743.41, the Nasdaq Composite gaining 0.5% to 27,068.72, and the Dow Jones Industrial…
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Western Digital Stock Slides Up to 4% in Broad Nasdaq Selloff Despite Bullish AI Memory Outlook
Western Digital shares fell as much as 4% on Thursday, September 24, underperforming its peers as a broader Nasdaq selloff dragged chip and memory stocks lower. SanDisk and Micron also…
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Oracle Sends Force Majeure Notice on New Mexico Data Center as Broader Market Slides on Treasury Yield Fears
Oracle shares fell more than 5% on Thursday after Bloomberg News reported the company sent a force majeure notice to the developer of its massive New Mexico data center project, known as…
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Bitcoin Drops to $83,000 as 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 19-Year High
Bitcoin fell sharply on September 24, sliding from around $87,200 to as low as $83,000 as the US 10-year Treasury yield surged to its highest level since 2007, marking the biggest…
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Bitcoin Slides to $83,300 as 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 19-Year High and 30-Year Touches 22-Year High
Bitcoin fell to around $83,300 on Thursday as surging U.S. Treasury yields triggered a broad risk-off move across markets. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped 18 basis points on Wednesday to…
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Merck Remigromig Hits Non-Inferiority Goal in Phase 2b/3 Diabetic Macular Edema Trial
Merck's eye disease drug remigromig met its primary non-inferiority endpoint in a Phase 2b/3 trial for diabetic macular edema, the company announced on September 24. The result positions…
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JPMorgan Shares Slide 3% to $340 Despite $20B QIA Deal as Dimon Sounds Caution on AI and Oil
JPMorgan Chase stock fell roughly 3% to $340 on Tuesday, making it one of the heaviest drags on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which lost 162.73 points on the session. The decline came…
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Nasdaq 100 Closes at Fresh All-Time High on Tuesday, Up 22% YTD, While S&P 500 Ends Flat and Dow Retreats
The Nasdaq 100 closed at a fresh all-time high on Tuesday, September 22, extending a technology-driven rally into a second consecutive session. The index finished at 27,245.24, up 0.45% or…
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Meta Muse AI Agent Tops App Store, Sending AMD to Trillion-Dollar Club and Nasdaq to Record
A wave of AI enthusiasm swept through markets on Monday, September 21, after Meta Platforms launched its Muse personal AI agent, which quickly climbed to the top spot on Apple's App Store…
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Nasdaq Notches New All-Time High as Oil Prices Slide on Iran Diplomacy Hopes
Wall Street extended its rally on Tuesday, September 22, with the Nasdaq Composite notching a new all-time high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging higher as oil prices fell sharply…
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Meta Muse AI Agent Surges in Popularity, Adds $192 Billion in Market Cap and Lifts Nasdaq to Record
Meta Platforms gained roughly $192 billion in market capitalization on Monday after its new personal AI agent, Muse, drew widespread consumer enthusiasm and soaring download numbers. Meta…
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Trump-Xi Washington Summit Sparks AI Stock Rally as Both Sides Signal Desire to Steady Ties
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping convened in Washington for their second summit of the year, with officials from both sides offering upbeat assessments of preparatory…
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Trump-Xi Washington Summit Spurs S&P 500 Best Day Since August as Trade Talks Enter Second Day
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set to meet at the White House this week for their second face-to-face summit of 2026, with U.S. and Chinese officials holding a second day of…
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Nvidia and QIA-Backed Iambic Therapeutics Files for Nasdaq IPO Under Ticker IAM
Iambic Therapeutics, an AI-driven drug discovery company backed by chip giant Nvidia and the Qatar Investment Authority, filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC on September 21…
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Magnachip Semiconductor Stock Surges 27% Premarket on Navitas Strategic Investment
Magnachip Semiconductor shares surged roughly 27.3% in premarket trading on Monday, September 21, after the company announced a strategic investment by Navitas Semiconductor, the…
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Paramount Settles with 12 States, Clearing Path for $110 Billion Warner Bros Discovery Merger
Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with California and 11 other states that had sued to block its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, California Attorney General Rob…
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Nasdaq Closes at Record High as AI Stocks Surge, Meta Jumps Nearly 12% and AMD Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap
The Nasdaq Composite closed at an all-time high on Monday, September 21, surging roughly 2% as a broad rally in artificial intelligence-related stocks powered Wall Street higher. The S&P…
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Nasdaq Surges 2.5% as Brent Crude Drops Below $100 and Chip Stocks Lead Broad Rally
U.S. stocks climbed sharply on Monday, September 21, led by a renewed surge in technology and semiconductor shares as falling oil prices eased inflation fears and optimism built around an…
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Fed Rate Hike and Dot Plot Signal More Tightening, Sending Treasury Yields to Multi-Year Highs
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, lifting the federal funds rate to a target range of 3.75% to 4.00%, and signaled further tightening…
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Accenture to Serve as Embedded Safety Evaluator for Anthropic Frontier AI as IPO Plans Advance
Anthropic has selected Accenture to assess the safety of its frontier AI technology, making Accenture one of the third-party embedded evaluators that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had publicly…
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Wall Street Most Bullish on European Stocks Since 2018 as Nvidia Outlook Lifts Global Chipmakers
Market strategists have issued their most optimistic September forecast for European equities in eight years, according to a Bloomberg survey of 16 strategists published September 18. The…
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Fed Raises Rates for First Time in Three Years, Sparking Tech Rally as Longer Yields Fall
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a range of 3.75% to 4.00% on September 16, 2026, marking the first rate increase in three years and the start of…
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10-Year Treasury Yield Pulls Back From 5% as Stocks and Bonds Rebound After Fed Rate Hike
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield retreated from the psychologically critical 5% level on September 17, snapping an eight-day rising streak, as stocks and bonds staged a broad recovery…
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Fed Raises Rates 25 Basis Points for First Time Since 2023, Sparking Sell-Off Then Rebound
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, September 16, bringing the target range to 3.75%-4% in its first hike since 2023. The FOMC vote was…
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Fed Raises Rates 25 Basis Points to 3.75%-4% for First Time in Three Years, Dow Drops 600 Points
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75%-4% on September 16, marking its first rate hike in more than three years and signaling…
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Fed Raises Rates 25 Basis Points to 3.75%-4%, Signals More Hikes Ahead as Stocks Reverse Gains
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on September 16, 2026, bringing the target range to 3.75%-4% in the central bank's first rate increase since July…
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Intel and AMD Stocks Surge as SK Hynix Talks Lift Semiconductor Sector
Semiconductor stocks rallied broadly on Wednesday, led by Intel, after Reuters reported that South Korean memory giant SK Hynix is in talks with Intel about manufacturing memory chips on US…
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Markets Fall as Investors Await Fed Rate Decision and Guidance on Wednesday
U.S. stocks declined on Tuesday as investors braced for the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision scheduled for Wednesday, September 16, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling…
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S&P 500 Falls as AI Slowdown Calls and a US-Iran Deal Rattle Markets
U.S. stocks declined on Monday, September 14, with the S&P 500 finishing down 0.5% and the Nasdaq Composite falling 0.6%, as two major forces hit investor sentiment simultaneously: calls…
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Applied Materials Falls 6% as AI Slowdown Call Triggers Broad Chip Equipment Selloff
Applied Materials shares fell roughly 5.8% to 6% on Monday, September 14, touching $430 in pre-market trading, as semiconductor equipment stocks sold off sharply after prominent artificial…
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Broadcom Drops Over 4% as AI Slowdown Calls and Rising Yields Slam Semiconductor Stocks
Broadcom shares fell more than 4% on September 14, 2026, as a broad semiconductor selloff was triggered by public calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urging the…
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CrowdStrike Surges 15% to All-Time High as AI Safety Warnings Drive Cybersecurity Bid
CrowdStrike shares rocketed as much as 15% on September 14, hitting an intraday all-time high of $238.68, as calls from top AI executives to slow frontier development sparked a sharp…
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AI Safety Calls From Amodei and Altman Spark Market Selloff and Trump Backlash
A wave of public calls from top AI executives to slow frontier development rattled markets on Monday and ignited a sharp political confrontation with President Trump. Anthropic CEO Dario…
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AI Safety Slowdown Calls Hammer Chip Stocks as Semiconductor Index Plunges 5.9%
A wave of safety warnings from leading AI executives triggered a sharp selloff in semiconductor and AI infrastructure stocks on Monday, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunging…
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HP Inc Surges 8% to 52-Week High as AI Hardware Boom Lifts Sector
HP Inc. shares climbed roughly 7-8% on Friday, September 11, reaching a new 52-week high as a broad rally in technology hardware stocks lifted the sector alongside gains in Dell…
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S&P 500 Snaps Four-Day Losing Streak as Dell Surges 11% and Oil Retreats
U.S. stocks rallied on Friday, September 11, ending a four-session slide that had been the Dow's longest consecutive losing streak since late April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained…
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August CPI Matches Forecasts at 3.4% Annual Rate as Stock Futures Rebound and Oil Retreats
US stock futures climbed on September 11 after the August Consumer Price Index came in broadly in line with expectations, offering traders some relief following four consecutive sessions of…
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Intel Shares Sink 6% After Parabolic Run as Altera IPO Plans Emerge
Intel shares fell roughly 6% to around $99.67 on Thursday, September 10, reversing course after a five-session winning streak that had lifted the stock more than 20%, as profit-taking, a…
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Chip Stocks Lead Broad Market Selloff as Oil Tops $105 and Treasury Yields Climb to Three-Year High
U.S. stocks fell broadly on Thursday, September 10, with the Nasdaq 100 dropping 1.28% to a one-week low, the S&P 500 sliding 0.46%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipping 0.04%, as a…
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Nasdaq Drops 0.6% After Inflation Surprise as Traders Raise Bets on Fed Rate Hike Before Sept. 16 Decision
A hotter-than-expected wholesale inflation reading on September 10 rattled equity markets and pushed traders to increase bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike ahead of the central bank's…
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Markets Hold Steady Ahead of Key US PPI and CPI Inflation Reports
Investors across asset classes are in a holding pattern as markets await two closely watched US inflation releases, the Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index, that could shape the…
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S&P 500 Falls 0.48% as Brent Crude Tops $101 and 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 4.84%
U.S. equity markets closed lower Wednesday as surging crude oil prices and rising Treasury yields combined to pressure stocks across all major indexes. Brent crude topped $101 per barrel…
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Brent Crude Tops $100 for First Time Since July as US-Iran Fighting Escalates in Persian Gulf
Brent crude oil crossed $100 a barrel on Wednesday, September 9, for the first time in roughly six weeks, as fighting between U.S. and Iranian forces intensified and raised serious concerns…
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Brent Crude Tops $100 for First Time Since July as US-Iran Fighting Escalates in Persian Gulf
Brent crude oil crossed $100 a barrel on Wednesday, September 9, for the first time in roughly six weeks, as fighting between U.S. and Iranian forces intensified and raised serious concerns…
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Boston Scientific Warns It Will Miss 2026 Sales and Profit Targets After Cyberattack Disrupts Shipments
Boston Scientific said on September 8 that a cybersecurity incident, which struck in August, has materially impaired its ability to ship products to customers and will cause the…
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FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to AstraZeneca's Breast Cancer Pill Etcamah for ESR1-Mutated Tumors
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to AstraZeneca's camizestrant, branded as Etcamah, for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative…
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SanDisk Surges Up to 12% on Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal and Accelerating NAND Pricing Cycle
SanDisk shares jumped as much as 12% on Friday, September 4, closing as the top weekly gainer on the Nasdaq, as a pair of catalysts combined to drive the strongest single-session move in…
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September Seasonal Weakness Puts Micron, Nvidia and Broader Market on Watch as Rosh Hashanah Adage Returns
September has historically been the worst month for the S&P 500, and heading into September 2026, analysts and strategists are revisiting two overlapping seasonal signals: 98 years of data…
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Bitcoin Surge Above $79,000 Sends Crypto Stocks and Retail Trading Favorites Sharply Higher on Thursday
A sharp rise in Bitcoin, which climbed above $79,000 for a gain of roughly 4-5% on the day, drove a broad rally in crypto-linked equities on Thursday and ignited a wave of bullish options…
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GoPro Surges 78% as Markiplier Stake and $285M Starman Optical Merger Drive Two-Day Rally
GoPro shares surged as much as 78% over two trading sessions, driven first by the disclosure that YouTube megastar Markiplier had acquired an 8.5% stake in the struggling action-camera…