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It’s peak earnings season, and investors could be forgiven for wanting an escape hatch. Corporate America is delivering solid results, but it’s not helping stocks. Last night, chip maker Intel’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street estimates.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Friday, with the Dow gaining just under half a percent, the S&P 500 virtually flat and the tech-heavy Nasdaq sliding nearly two-thirds of a percent.</p><p>The S&P 500 technology index underperformed the broader market as chip stocks fell, with Intel dropping nearly 8% despite forecasting quarterly profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates.</p><p>Enthusiasm for the AI trade weakened after Alphabet's announcement earlier this week of a plan to hike capital spending even as it burns cash.</p><p>Richard Reyle, chief investment officer at Questar Capital Partners, said that as a result investors are rotating into what he called "safer parts of the market."</p><p>"Pharmaceuticals have been flying, and that's been, I think, where we see the rotation of the market right now. [FLASH] You look at the iShares, pharmaceutical fund, it's big components that are J&J and Eli Lilly, they're at all-time highs. And they're still relatively not super expensive stocks. So I think that's a place that can be bought and held. And of course, energy. Exxon's going to announce earnings next week. I bet they're going to be a blockbuster and they're going to continue to be because they make money at $60 a barrel. At $100 a barrel, forget about it. They do very well."</p><p>The S&P 500 real estate sector also outperformed during the session. Its leading gainer was Digital Realty Trust, which rallied 11% after it raised its full-year forecast for funds from operations.</p><p>Among other gainers, shares of SLB climbed 11% after the oilfield services firm beat expectations for second-quarter profit.</p><p>Investors now turn their attention to quarterly results next week from Magnificent 7 megacaps Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Apple.</p></body>
TODAY'S MARKETS Billions of dollars of losses in artificial-intelligence stocks. Sharp spikes in oil prices that dropped just as quickly. A jump in benchmark Treasury yields Thursday to their highest level this year.
Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended Friday’s session 0.5% higher, while the S&P 500 gained 0.1% and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.6%.
The Dow rose on Friday, but the blue-chip index couldn’t stave off its third-consecutive weekly decline. The Nasdaq dropped 0.6%. Stocks traded sideways all day, as another slide in chip stocks dragged down the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
President Trump has proposed new tariffs on roughly 60 countries, adding another layer of uncertainty for investors. On today's Opening Bid panel, featuring Robinhood (HOOD) chief investment officer Stephanie Guild and Miller Tabak managing director and equity strategist Matt Maley, join Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss investment opportunities and portfolio positioning as markets rotate in response to shifting trade policy and broader macroeconomic trends.
July 24 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened subdued on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors digested fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a
US equity futures nudged higher pre-bell Friday as traders weighed a new set of tariffs imposed by t
By Anna Szymanski July 24 (Reuters) - From the Editor Hello Morning Bid readers! Cash burn and spiking crude prices dominated market headlines this week.
July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a tech-led selloff in the previous session, as investors weighed fresh earnings, escalating Middle East tensions and a new
Stocks stabilized on Friday but were on track for weekly losses as investors assessed a new set of global tariffs against a backdrop of AI jitters, rising oil prices, and elevated bond yields.
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, July 24 (Reuters) - Asian shares sank on Friday as a near 40% rise in oil prices this month due to the intensifying conflict in the Gulf revived inflation fears, rattling bond
As the global benchmark topped $100, stocks slumped and Treasury yields hit their highest levels of President Trump’s second term.
Primoris has gotten torched over the last six months - since January 2026, its stock price has dropped 39.3% to $89.91 per share. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.
Here are some of the biggest decliners in the Nasdaq Composite Index, recently down 2.3%: Tesla (TSLA), down 14% T-Mobile (TMUS), down 7.8% Alphabet (GOOG), down 6.5% Strategy (MSTR), down 6.
Find insight on Alphabet, SK Hynix, CXMT and more in the latest Market Talks covering technology, media and telecom.
The Google parent's shares have trailed the Nasdaq this year and fell premarket today, as investors fret over its AI spending spree. But its price of about 25 times forward earnings is hardly stratospheric if you consider the company’s growth prospects.
The June Inflation report doesn't reverse a 63-month (and counting) trend of above-target price increases.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended lower on Wednesday, with Dow virtually flat, the S&P 500 dipping fractionally, while the Nasdaq lost more than half a percent.</p><p>Investors eagerly awaited earnings results after the closing bell from Alphabet and Tesla, the first of the Magnificent Seven megacaps to report.</p><p>Shares of Alphabet, down more than 1% at the close, dipped further in extended trading despite the Google parent topping Wall Street estimates for cloud revenue growth thanks to the AI boom.</p><p>And shares of Tesla, which also closed lower, tumbled another 2.5% in extended trading after Elon Musk's EV maker reported negative free cash flow for the first time in more than two years due to accelerated spending on AI infrastructure, battery capacity, robotaxis and next-generation manufacturing.</p><p>Bob Lang, founder and chief options analyst of Explosive Options, said that strong earnings are needed to keep the market moving higher.</p><p>“The one thing that has been pretty constant here for the past 4 or 5 months for the stock market has been strong earnings and certainly a first quarter brought us about 26, 27% earnings growth. So far in the second quarter, we're seeing it at about 16 to 17%. And that's without some of the big names that have reported for the second quarter yet. We're going to have big names like, Nvidia. We're going to have big names like Micron reporting in September. That's a couple of months away, of course. But you know, we're going to have some of these companies out there that are probably going to report some stellar earnings. And, it's really been the linchpin for keeping the stock market afloat right now.”</p><p>Shares of IBM rose in extended trading after the company cut its annual revenue growth forecast, days after shocking Wall Street with a warning that corporate spending was shifting toward AI-focused data-center gear at the expense of its software and mainframe computers.</p><p>:: ServiceNow Handout</p><p>And shares of ServiceNow, down about 6.5% at the close, rose more than 3% after hours as the company raised its forecast for annual subscription revenue for the second time after beating second-quarter revenue and profit estimates, driven by growing demand for its AI-powered software.</p><p>Among other tech names, shares of Super Micro Computer rallied almost 20%, making it the S&P 500's biggest percentage gainer, a day after the server maker said it had secured more than $60 billion in new orders in its fiscal fourth quarter. </p></body>
Tech firms are showing that while the AI trade continues its upward surge, it's coming with a high price tag.
The Nasdaq slowly sold off throughout the day as the market awaited new information from Alphabet and Tesla after hours, today, July 22, 2026.
U.S. stocks were little changed Wednesday as oil prices extended gains, while investors braced for a wave of major earnings. The S&P 500 slipped 10.24 points, or 0.14%, to 7498.96, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 146.30 points, or 0.57%, to 25690.90. Traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remained at less than 10% of its prewar levels.
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