Today: 28 June 2026
MSFT rally set for Russell reshuffle as AI spending jitters hang over stock

MSFT rally set for Russell reshuffle as AI spending jitters hang over stock

28 June 2026
Microsoft (MSFT) surged 5.71% to $372.97 on record volume as FTSE Russell index changes moved the stock into both growth and value indexes, driving a “really massive trade” and “key liquidity day”; investors now face uncertainty over real demand versus index flows, with capex and AI spending weighing on future profitability.
Fifth Third’s Social Security card change puts $3.6 billion Direct Express deposit base in play

Fifth Third’s Social Security card change puts $3.6 billion Direct Express deposit base in play

Fifth Third Bancorp (NYSE:FITB) is absorbing millions of Direct Express cardholders and $3.6 billion in noninterest-bearing deposits as Social Security ends paper checks, giving FITB a major low-cost funding boost—but execution risks loom as the bank integrates Comerica’s former program and manages potential fraud and service challenges.
Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) price targets draw attention as shares rally into short holiday week

Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) price targets draw attention as shares rally into short holiday week

Moderna soared 12.6% Friday on heavy volume after unveiling new in vivo CAR-T pipeline plans, closing at $67.27—52% above the mean analyst target but still 14.5% below Piper Sandler’s new $77 target. The rally followed Science Day updates, even as analysts note the main new asset is preclinical and cash burn continues, with $7.5B cash at March-end and a projected $3B R&D spend for 2026.

IPO calendar eyes Bending Spoons as shortened week thins deal pipeline

IPO calendar eyes Bending Spoons as shortened week thins deal pipeline

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) drives 61% of next week’s $2.56 billion U.S. IPO proceeds, making its $1.57 billion raise a key test for investor appetite in debt-heavy software M&A, with a $18.1 billion valuation and 4.0x net debt to EBITDA leverage, as markets brace for a holiday-shortened week and a looming $29.4 billion SK hynix Nasdaq ADR.
AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

Meta hired OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal and bought a 49% stake in Scale AI, valued at nearly $15 billion, while securing 1.1 GW of nuclear power for future AI data centers. Amazon’s stock nearly doubled in three years as AWS holds about 30% of the global cloud market. U.S. Judge Alsup ruled AI training on copyrighted books can be fair use, but Anthropic faces trial in December over alleged use of pirate copies.
June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-5 will launch in summer 2025, claiming major improvements over GPT-4. Midjourney released its first text-to-video system, Model V1, in June 2025. Meta delayed LLaMA 4 Behemoth to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, running vision-language-action AI entirely on robots.

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Energy stocks this week: U.S. sector ETF holds flat as oil falls

Energy stocks this week: U.S. sector ETF holds flat as oil falls

Brent crude plunged 10.86% last week as Hormuz flows improved, but the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) fell just 0.4%, signaling investors are no longer trading energy stocks in lockstep with oil prices; this divergence matters now as refiners benefit from tight diesel margins while oilfield services face risks from a Norway lockout and rising U.S. rigs.
Micron (NASDAQ:MU) moves pull Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) into focus this week for AI stocks

Micron (NASDAQ:MU) moves pull Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) into focus this week for AI stocks

Micron’s record $41.46 billion quarter and $50 billion Q4 outlook highlight surging memory demand as Apple hikes Mac and iPad prices after DRAM costs nearly double; with the Philadelphia semiconductor index down 7.9% last week, investors face a compressed four-day week to gauge if AI’s memory squeeze boosts profits or triggers a tech cost shock, as payrolls data and rate risks loom.
US stocks look to jobs data as traders shift from AI tech

US stocks look to jobs data as traders shift from AI tech

Semiconductor stocks plunged 7.9% last week, their worst performance since April, dragging the S&P 500 down 2.05% as investors pulled nearly $20 billion from tech funds; strategists warn that continued weakness in mega-cap tech could weigh on cap-weighted indexes even as smaller stocks rally, with upcoming jobs data and rate expectations posing further risks.
TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) short interest, volume in focus as AI rally gets tested

TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) short interest, volume in focus as AI rally gets tested

TeraWulf plunged 10.9% to $25.83 this week—sharply underperforming the Nasdaq—after hitting a 52-week high Monday, as Friday’s Russell index reconstitution drove volume to 66.3 million shares, but failed to clear the heavy 108.65 million share short interest, leaving WULF exposed to further volatility as investors weigh the long-term payoff of its Kentucky data-center expansion.
SpaceX stock eyes $8 billion index hurdle as shares stumble in first week after IPO

SpaceX stock eyes $8 billion index hurdle as shares stumble in first week after IPO

SpaceX closed at $153.23, up 13.5% from its $135 IPO, as index funds prepare to buy over $8 billion of shares—about 8% of the listed float—due to forced inclusion in the Russell and Nasdaq-100, making index mechanics, not fundamentals, the key near-term driver for this $2 trillion stock with limited public float and heavy capital needs. (Reuters)
Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) stock heads into June 30 cash deadline after shares fall five days

Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) stock heads into June 30 cash deadline after shares fall five days

Plug Power (PLUG) fell 1.17% to $2.54 Friday, capping a five-day, 10.9% slide as volume jumped above average, with investors eyeing a June 30 deadline to close a $132.5M–$142M asset sale to Stream Data Centers—a key liquidity event equal to up to 64% of unrestricted cash and nearly all Q1 operating cash use—amid a shortened trading week before the July 3 market holiday.
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