Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while…
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 were mixed on Wednesday . The S & P 500 was basically flat in late afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq was modestly weaker. Once again,…
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…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors who feel they’ve missed this year’s biggest winners should be thankful for Wednesday’s market rotation. “You are getting a chance to sell the losers at a premium and switch to winners at a discount,” the “Mad Money” host said Wednesday. “So often in this market, you look back and kick…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, helps ring The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 30, 2025. NYSE The “SaaSpocalypse” may not be over. But for now at least, fears of software’s demise have cooled. Software stocks soared this week, driven by strong results from Snowflake and Okta, signaling that some companies…
Software stocks popped on Thursday after Snowflake said it plans to spend $6 billion on compute from Amazon and topped earnings estimates on artificial intelligence momentum. Shares of the software maker surged 35% and headed for its best day ever. The company is expanding its use of Amazon’s in-house chips for AI. Along with the…
As investors worry about all of the companies that AI will wipe out, they are rotating into the ones that AI will have a harder time disrupting. And the HALO trade, as it is called, is working. HALO, which stands for “heavy assets, low obsolescence,” was coined by Josh Brown, co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz…
President Donald Trump speaks during a law enforcement leaders dinner celebrating the start of National Police Week in the Rose Garden at The White House in Washington, May 11, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars — including large purchases…
U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump scooped up shares of artificial intelligence software maker Palantir weeks before he famously lauded the stock, with its…
It was another week under the thumb of the Iran war. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq each finished Friday at record closing highs after whipsawing on Middle East developments throughout the week. Oil prices also swung sharply as Iran and the U.S. imposed blockades in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil shipping…
