The jobs market steps into the spotlight this week, while second-quarter earnings season continues apace. Here’s a closer look at what to expect in the coming days. We’ll start with the Club holdings set to report, before touching on the labor-market updates and their implications for Federal Reserve policy. 1. Earnings : The action kicks…
The battered $24 billion hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is unwinding many of its trades after big losses on artificial intelligence stocks and a bad bet against software stocks left it scrambling to raise cash, according to people familiar with the matter. The prime brokers for the fund, Situational Awareness, have…
A semiconductor wafer is on display at Touch Taiwan, an annual display exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan April 16, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Asian technology stocks extended their sell-off on Wednesday, with semiconductor names leading declines after another weak session in the U.S. In South Korea, SK Hynix slid more than 10% after the chip…
Bank employees work in front of multiple monitors at the Hana Bank dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, on May 12, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Wall Street tech moves and South Korea’s stock market are becoming increasingly intertwined as artificial intelligence spending binds together the fortunes of U.S. technology giants and Korean…
Apple passed Nvidia on Monday for the title of world’s most valuable company, with the iPhone maker topping the artificial intelligence chip firm at market close for the first time since April 2025. Shares of Nvidia fell 5% on Monday, giving the chipmaker a valuation of $4.77 trillion, as AI chip stocks in general declined…
We’re in one of those markets where it seems like nothing is working. The pain starts early with the evening S & P and Nasdaq futures giving you a double dose of crimson. But the trusty S & P Short Range Oscillator isn’t oversold enough to hold your nose and buy something. So you just…
The AI trade dominated the market once again this week, upstaging an impressive start to the second-quarter earnings season. Cooler-than-expected June reports on consumer and producer prices offered encouraging signs that inflation continued to ease, while earnings from the nation’s largest banks reinforced the strength of capital markets. At the same time, investors kept one…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks pulled back on Friday , capping off another volatile week. Weakness in the hyperscalers — Amazon , Alphabet , Meta Platforms , and Microsoft —…
Apple and Nvidia battled it out on Friday for the title of world’s most valuable company, with the iPhone maker briefly topping the long-time leader in market value. Shares of Nvidia briefly dropped about 3% and its market value dipped to $4.84 trillion in early morning trading, while Apple hovered near a $4.88 trillion market…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday that today’s stock market is nowhere near the kind of bubble that preceded the dot-com crash. While companies such as SpaceX may fuel perceptions of excess, Cramer argued they are exceptions to the rule, rather than representative of the broader market. “There are always outliers,” the “Mad Money” host said….
