Blue-chip stocks looked set to fall on Monday as the cease-fire in the Middle East appeared to fray, with the market still reeling from Friday’s brutal artificial intelligence selloff. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 169 points, or 0.3%. S&P 500 futures climbed 0.3%, while contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 added 0.7%.
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Global shares sank on Monday after Wall Street ended last week with its worst day since October, while oil prices jumped more than $4 as fighting flared between Israel and Iran. South Korea's Kospi led the global retreat, plunging 8.3% on heavy selling of technology shares and extending losses that on Friday gave the S&P 500 its biggest single day drop in months. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.3%.
Tensions in the Gulf had already been escalating as the U.S. and Iran increasingly exchange fire, with both sides trying to establish their own shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the consumer price index on Wednesday and the producer price index on Thursday. Both inflation measures are running at multi-year highs, and the core CPI hasn’t been at or below the Federal Reserve’s two percent target in more than five years. This week also brings perhaps the most anticipated initial public offering in history: SpaceX.
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REVIEW PREVIEW NEWSLETTER Record Scratch. The Nasdaq Composite just wrapped its worst day in more than a year. The tech-heavy index sank 4.2%, while the S&P 500 dropped 2.6%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 695 points, or 1.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street’s nine-week winning streak came to an abrupt halt on Friday, with the Dow dropping about one-and-a-third percent, the S&P 500 sliding more than 2.6% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbling nearly 4.2%, its largest one-day percentage loss in more than a year.</p><p>Selling was concentrated among chip stocks and other technology favorites that have surged in recent weeks as the Nasdaq and S&P 500 rose repeatedly to fresh highs.</p><p>The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index erased more than $1 trillion in stock market value on Friday, suffering its largest one-day percentage plunge since March of 2020.</p><p>Eric Lynch, managing director and co-portfolio manager of Suncoast Equity Management, said tech stocks tanked due to rate-hike and AI spending concerns.</p><p>"The first factor is the blowout jobs report this morning. That has taken the chances of another Fed cut off the table for 2026. That hits long-duration, most exciting speculative stocks the most. [FLASH] But also there's been grumblings about AI, just some concerns about whether or not the token usage is really translating to great returns. And you've seen some consternation kind of bubbling up."</p><p>Among individual movers, AI chipmaker Nvidia, the largest company by market value, lost more than 6%, while Intel, Micron, AMD and Broadcom all slid between about 8% and 13.5%.</p><p>Shares of Lululemon Athletica slumped about 8.5% after the athletic apparel maker cut its annual profit forecast and projected second-quarter earnings well below Wall Street estimates.</p><p>And a more than 4% drop in bitcoin hit cryptocurrency firms, with shares of Coinbase and Strategy each tumbling about 7%.</p></body>
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