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IBM (IBM) stock is plunging upwards of 20% in Tuesday's pre-market trading after releasing weaker-than-expected preliminary second quarter earnings results. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Trustless Media founder Zack Guzman to help analyze how IBM's stock reaction may relate to the memory chip trade. IBM is scheduled to release its full second quarter figures on Wednesday, July 22.

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Software stocks were hammered after IBM preannounced weaker-than-expected Q2 financial results. Shares in IT services firms also fell.

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IBM (NYSE:IBM) released preliminary financial results for the second quarter of 2026, reporting revenue of $17. 2 billion, up 1% from a year earlier but below the company’s expectations as weaker performance in its Infrastructure and Software divisions weighed on results.

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Investing.com -- HSBC downgraded IBM to Reduce from Hold and cut its price target to $191 from $231 in a note on Tuesday, arguing that a basket of IBM's peers offers superior earnings potential for the same investment.

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IBM just logged its worst single-session collapse in nearly four decades, and the shockwaves are already hitting Microsoft, ServiceNow, and the broader software sector in ways that raise an uncomfortable question about where enterprise spending is actually going.

Bond yields dropped sharply and Nasdaq futures climbed after a cooler-than-expected inflation report this morning. Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 index rose, while those tied to the Dow industrials edged lower.

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Tech stocks faced downward pressure Tuesday as disappointing preliminary results from IBM (NYSE:IBM) rippled across the sector, pulling shares of major software companies lower. Following IBM’s update, investors reacted sharply to the cooling sentiment in the broader software space: Accenture (NYSE:ACN): Fell 8% ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW): Dropped 6% Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY): Declined 5% Salesforce (NYSE:CRM): Slipped 5% The decline is rooted in a fundamental shift in enterprise capital expenditure (cap

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped Tuesday ahead of the June CPI inflation report. IBM stock plunged 23% on earnings.

Shares of IBM are sliding before the market open on Tuesday as the company provided preliminary second-quarter results that are below Wall Street's expectations. International Business Machines said that it anticipates a quarterly adjusted profit of $2.93 per share on revenue of $17.2 billion. CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to investors that the company's software and infrastructure performance shortfall during the quarter was due to clients shifting their spending toward servers, storage, and memory purchases before anticipated price increases.

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The disposition follows a 295% surge in the stock price over the past year.

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Apple hit an all-time stock high after it filed one of its most aggressive lawsuits in years, and the market barely flinched. That disconnect between price and risk is exactly what most investors are not pricing in right now.

Investing.com --IBM’s preliminary second-quarter results delivered a gut punch to investors, sending the stock down 19% on Tuesday morning as a massive, industry-wide shift in hardware capital expenditure (capex) cannibalized the company’s high-margin software business.