Today: 3 July 2026

Iwona Majkowska

Iwona Majkowska is a financial markets journalist at TS2.tech, specializing in stocks, artificial intelligence and technology. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, she previously worked in equity research and financial analysis before focusing on market reporting. Her daily coverage helps investors follow major developments across U.S. and global markets.

Microsoft Stock Moves Higher Ahead of Build Week, AI Spend In Focus

Microsoft Stock Moves Higher Ahead of Build Week, AI Spend In Focus

Microsoft shares jumped Friday to close out a holiday-shortened week, pulling the company back into focus in the artificial-intelligence trade ahead of its Build developer conference this week. Shares finished Friday at $450.24, up 5.45% for the session and about 7.6% higher since the May 22 close. Nasdaq holds regular trading Monday through Friday. The exchange’s 2026 schedule showed equity and options markets will shut for Memorial Day on May 25.
31 May 2026
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Axon Stock’s 16% Week Puts Its AI Drone Bet Back On Wall Street’s Radar

Axon Stock’s 16% Week Puts Its AI Drone Bet Back On Wall Street’s Radar

Axon Enterprise shares closed a holiday-shortened week at $448.72, up 2.1% on Friday and about 16.5% from the prior Friday, as investors returned to the Taser maker’s artificial intelligence and counter-drone story after a sharp two-day rally. The stock rose 12.3% on Thursday and 2.1% on Friday; there was no Saturday trade, and U.S. exchanges had also shut on Monday for Memorial Day. The timing matters. Axon heads into appearances next week at the Baird Global Consumer, Technology & Services Conference on June 2 and the William Blair Growth Stock Conference on June 4, giving management fresh chances to defend the rebound and update investors on demand.
30 May 2026
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Verizon Shares Miss Out as Market Hits Record—What to Watch for VZ Next Week

Verizon Shares Miss Out as Market Hits Record—What to Watch for VZ Next Week

Verizon Communications Inc. stock lost ground over the holiday-shortened week. The shares trailed the broader U.S. market, which hit new highs, as tech and AI names drew more interest and left the telecom group largely out of favor. Verizon shares last changed hands on Friday, with U.S. markets shut for the weekend. The stock closed at $47.81, off 0.42% for the session on volume of around 40.4 million shares, market data show. Verizon's market cap sits near $201.3 billion.
30 May 2026
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Applied Materials shares post strong week, with fresh test ahead for AMAT

Applied Materials shares post strong week, with fresh test ahead for AMAT

Applied Materials finished the holiday-shortened week just under record highs, keeping nearly all of Tuesday’s big move as traders left for the weekend with U.S. markets shut. The chip equipment maker ended Friday at $450.06, up 0.08% for the session and 4.1% higher than its May 22 close. Shares hit $462.40 on Wednesday, the top print in the latest month’s price data. Timing is in focus. Nasdaq trades Monday to Friday, but U.S. equity markets took a break Monday for Memorial Day, so investors had less time to react to the recent rally in chip-equipment stocks.
30 May 2026
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Constellation Energy Stock Slipped for the Week — One AI Power Trigger Could Decide What Comes Next

Constellation Energy Stock Slipped for the Week — One AI Power Trigger Could Decide What Comes Next

Constellation Energy shares enter next week on the back foot after a Friday bounce failed to repair a midweek break. CEG closed at $287.75 on May 29, up 0.50% on the day, but down about 2.1% from the May 22 close of $294.07; Wednesday’s 4.27% drop was the week’s hard turn. There is no Saturday cash-session trade to change that picture. The Nasdaq market runs Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time, and U.S. markets were closed on Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day, leaving last week holiday-shortened.
30 May 2026
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McDonald’s Shares Fall as Market Sets Record, Company Faces Upcoming Test

McDonald’s Shares Fall as Market Sets Record, Company Faces Upcoming Test

McDonald’s Corp shares slipped for the week, despite gaining a bit on Friday, as traders weighed the company’s value efforts up against weaker consumer trends. U.S. stock markets stayed closed Saturday and again on Monday for Memorial Day. Regular NYSE hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. The Dow component ended Friday at $279.20, gaining 0.44% after trading from $277.42 to $281.42. The stock dropped around 1.1% for the week, compared to its May 22 close at $282.27. The week had four sessions due to Monday's Memorial Day holiday.
30 May 2026
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SK hynix AI Memory Crunch: Big Tech Offers to Fund Fabs as Capacity Runs Out

SK hynix Hits $1 Trillion in a Wild Week, Traders Wonder What’s Next

SK hynix was near all-time highs going into Monday, after shares closed Friday at 2,333,000 won, up 1.92%. The main Seoul index, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index, hit a new high, ending up 3.55% at 8,476.15. Flows into AI-memory trades stayed focused on a handful of chip stocks. SK hynix isn’t acting like a typical cyclical memory stock now. The company hit a $1 trillion market cap for the first time on Wednesday, joining Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology. Demand for high-end memory in AI chips has cut supply and boosted prices. Kim Young-gun at Mirae Asset Securities said, “memory chip demand to continue exceeding supply by 2028.” Kang Jin-hyuk at Shinhan Securities said ETF buying was driving futures buying. Leveraged ETFs use derivatives or borrowed money to amplify gains and losses.
30 May 2026
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Lumen Rallies 17% During Short Week; AI Pivot Up for Test

Lumen Rallies 17% During Short Week; AI Pivot Up for Test

Lumen Technologies finished the short week strong, jumping to $10.99 at Friday’s close. The four-session rally put the stock near the upper end of its latest trading band. The action happened before U.S. exchanges went dark for the weekend, so it’s setting up as a next-week trade. Why it matters now: Investors are starting to look at Lumen less as an old phone company in decline and more as a risky play on business data, cloud connections and AI demand. But that story only works if revenue shows up.
30 May 2026
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General Dynamics Stock Reacts to New Pentagon Move

General Dynamics Stock Reacts to New Pentagon Move

General Dynamics picked up a small win heading into June, as its shares ended the week higher. A new communications-support contract for its Mission Systems division landed in a Pentagon update late Friday, giving the stock a push with U.S. trading shut for the weekend. Shares finished at $346.82, down 0.61% on Friday, but up around 1.1% since May 22 in a week shortened by the holiday. Timing is in play. The New York Stock Exchange didn’t open Monday for Memorial Day, so only four trading sessions this week. Now General Dynamics has to see if April’s earnings jump can last with the market still at record levels.
30 May 2026
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Rivian Shares Pop as R2 Launch Nears

Rivian Shares Pop as R2 Launch Nears

Rivian Automotive shares ended the week with a strong jump on Friday, closing at $16.30. Investors rotated back into the EV maker ahead of first customer deliveries for its cheaper R2 SUV. The clock is a factor. U.S. stock trading is closed over the weekend, with Nasdaq’s normal hours set for Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern. That means traders will see Rivian’s next move on Monday, June 1.
30 May 2026
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Clorox Stock Slumps After Profit Forecast Cut as Purell Deal and Oil Costs Bite

Clorox slips as CEO departure announced

Clorox shares finished the short week down hard after Chair and CEO Linda Rendle said she’s leaving for health reasons. The news put succession risk in the mix for a stock already dealing with slow sales growth and a cut profit outlook. Clorox CLX finished Friday at $90.02, falling 6.42% for the day. That’s down about 5.4% from last week’s close of $95.11. Volume was heavier, with 4.6 million shares traded as investors sold the Oakland, California-based company behind bleach, Pine-Sol and Glad bags.
30 May 2026
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BP Stock Just Got a Boardroom Shock. Monday Could Test the Turnaround

BP Stock Just Got a Boardroom Shock. Monday Could Test the Turnaround

BP PLC’s shares head into the new week with a boardroom crisis still hanging over the stock, after a four-session slide tied to the removal of chairman Albert Manifold and a late Friday report of deeper internal clashes. The London Stock Exchange is closed on Saturday, putting the next market test at Monday’s open. That matters now because Manifold had become part of the investment case for BP: a hard-driving chair seen by some shareholders as the figure pushing faster cost cuts, a simpler structure and a sharper turn back toward oil and gas. His exit has reopened the question of whether new CEO Meg O’Neill and interim leadership can keep the plan on track without more turmoil.
30 May 2026
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Plug Power Stock Falls Again — The Hydrogen Rally’s Hard Test Is Here

Plug Power Stock Falls Again — The Hydrogen Rally’s Hard Test Is Here

Plug Power Inc. shares fell on Friday, giving back part of a recent rally as traders cooled on one of the year’s more volatile clean-energy rebound bets. The stock dropped 4.13% to close at $3.95, its second straight decline, even as the Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average finished higher. The move matters because Plug is no longer trading just on hydrogen-sector promise. Investors are now marking the stock against a shorter checklist: margins, cash use, project execution and whether new electrolyzer orders can turn into profit, not just revenue.
30 May 2026
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Ford gets fresh boost as power-grid trade heats up

Ford gets fresh boost as power-grid trade heats up

Ford Motor shares rose Friday, building on their strong May run as traders stuck with the automaker's latest move into energy storage. Some auto names were under pressure after new U.S.-Mexico trade talks. Ford shares ended the session at $17.44, up 4.74%. The stock last traded at $17.48 in late New York moves. The day saw a high of $17.78, the best level in a year. Over 154 million shares traded, topping the recent average.
30 May 2026
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Dow punches past 51,000 with Dell rally driving record May

Dow punches past 51,000 with Dell rally driving record May

Dow tops 51,000 with tech rally, oil drop helps cool inflation jitters Stocks finished at new highs Friday. The Dow closed above 51,000 for the first time, ending up 0.7% at 51,032.46. The S&P 500 added 0.2% to 7,580.06 and the Nasdaq rose 0.2% to 26,972.62. Gains in Dell Technologies after its results supported tech, and weaker oil prices took some pressure off inflation. Stocks closed out a second good month, with markets looking past Iran war headlines and continuing choppy trading in energy. The S&P 500 finished its ninth week higher, the longest streak since 2023. The Nasdaq climbed about 8% in May, and the S&P added 5%.
30 May 2026
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Atlassian Shares Surge as Investors Shift From AI Software Fears

Atlassian Shares Surge as Investors Shift From AI Software Fears

Atlassian shares surged Friday, following a big rally in software stocks. Investors looked more ready to pick up names once seen as at risk from AI. The stock jumped 15.6% to $107.85 in afternoon trade. Nearly 9.6 million shares changed hands, about twice the recent average. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF climbed 5.6%. Snowflake, Salesforce, and ServiceNow were also higher.
29 May 2026
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Ambarella Drops 20% After AI Beat, $800 Million Hanwha Contract

Ambarella Drops 20% After AI Beat, $800 Million Hanwha Contract

Ambarella fell roughly 20% Friday afternoon, with shares at $73.33 near 12:53 p.m. in New York. The move followed a small earnings beat and news of a major multi-year agreement with Hanwha of South Korea. Shares opened at $82.39 and traded as low as $71.76. The Invesco QQQ Trust was slightly up in the same period. Ambarella is pitching edge AI, running artificial intelligence on devices like cameras and cars instead of sending data to the cloud. But the market response suggests that for AI chip stocks, a slight earnings beat isn't always enough when expectations are set.
29 May 2026
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IREN Shares Slide, Bringing Dell AI Deal and $4.4 Billion Test Into Focus

IREN Shares Slide, Bringing Dell AI Deal and $4.4 Billion Test Into Focus

IREN Limited shares dropped in midday action Friday, pulling back after an AI-fueled run. Traders are shifting focus from the big contract figures to whether the company can actually ramp up the capacity it has said it will. The Nasdaq-listed shares traded down about 1.5% at $63.08. The Invesco QQQ Trust, which tracks the Nasdaq-100, was up about 0.3%. IREN trailed the wider tech market here instead of following it.
29 May 2026
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SoundHound AI Stock Moves on $300 Million News

SoundHound AI Stock Moves on $300 Million News

SoundHound AI shares climbed early Friday alongside gains in software and AI stocks. The Nasdaq-listed voice and agentic AI firm was recently at $8.93, up 4.3%. Shares hit a session high of $9.20. This move comes after the company launched a new share-sale program that could bring more stock to market. SoundHound gets attention because it’s a mid-cap name in AI. At around $3.8 billion market cap, it’s small enough for sentiment to swing the shares, but also sizable, so investors watch how it spends cash, takes on deals, and issues stock. Broader tech was stronger: the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF rose 2.6%, and the Invesco QQQ Trust added 0.6%, providing a tailwind for SoundHound.
29 May 2026
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Stock Market Today

  • Wendy's Plans 1,000 New China Locations as U.S. Sales Drop
    July 3, 2026, 11:13 AM EDT. Wendy's Company said it struck a franchise deal to launch as many as 1,000 new restaurants in China over the next ten years, targeting growth outside the U.S. The burger chain faces headwinds at home, with same-restaurant sales down 7.8% in Q1 2026 after soft traffic and weather trouble. International sales climbed 6%, lifted by gains in the Philippines and Mexico. The planned China push fits Wendy's bet on mixing global reach with local menus. McDonald's and Starbucks hold bigger ground in China, but Wendy's sees the move as a way to spread risk and push long-term gains even as the U.S. business stumbles.
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