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.

Iovance (NASDAQ:IOVA) gains after $89.7 million stock sale

Iovance (NASDAQ:IOVA) gains after $89.7 million stock sale

Iovance shares moved higher after the company announced a $89.7 million stock sale. Investors shrugged off the potential overhang. New York, June 23, 2026, 17:04 Iovance Biotherapeutics jumped 9.4% to $4.44 late Tuesday, picking up about $159 million in market value. The move came as a new share-sale program had investors debating dilution risks versus the potential for quicker Amtagvi sales. Shares hit $4.52 during the session, with volume around 17.9 million shares.
23 June 2026
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Walmart (NYSE:WMT) gains $18 billion as Vibe.co deal sends unclear sector read

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) gains $18 billion as Vibe.co deal sends unclear sector read

Walmart gained 1.9% on Tuesday, finishing at $119.42 in after-hours, which tacked on about $17.8 billion in value. The S&P 500 dropped 1.44%. The Nasdaq fell 2.21%. The S&P 500’s consumer-staples sector ended up 1.8%. Applying the 1.8% rise seen in the sector to Walmart’s previous market cap accounts for around $16.9 billion of Tuesday’s increase, with about $900 million left above the sector’s move. The Wall Street Journal said Walmart is buying Vibe.co for $1.4 billion. Walmart’s total stock bump was nearly 13 times that deal price, but most of the gain seems to come from a move into staples, not a direct response to the Vibe.co deal.
23 June 2026
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Robinhood (HOOD) Slides After $2 Billion Debt Move

Robinhood (HOOD) Slides After $2 Billion Debt Move

Robinhood Markets shares trimmed earlier losses Tuesday after dropping at the open. The online broker priced a $2 billion sale of convertible senior notes, a form of debt that can be exchanged for stock on certain terms. The stock stayed down. The stock dropped 0.6% to $105.05. It hit a low of $98.25 earlier. Interactive Brokers was off 0.7%. Charles Schwab gained 0.9%. Robinhood’s swing looked linked to its funding, with less spillover from other brokerages.
23 June 2026
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Carnival (NYSE:CCL) Falls Even After Hitting Record Quarter, Guidance Leaves Investors Cold

Carnival (NYSE:CCL) Falls Even After Hitting Record Quarter, Guidance Leaves Investors Cold

Carnival Corporation Ltd. dropped 5.5% to $28.54 late Tuesday morning, giving back some gains after a streak of strong trading. The cruise stock opened at $27.50, hit a low of $27.02. More than 22 million shares changed hands. Investors shrugged off record quarterly numbers and focused on a weaker profit forecast. Carnival’s shares dropped after its outlook missed Wall Street targets. The cruise giant said it sees third-quarter adjusted profit around $1.35 a share, under analyst calls for $1.42 according to LSEG. Revenue last quarter was $6.66 billion, coming in shy of the $6.69 billion estimate. The company blamed fuel costs and geopolitical tensions for weaker bookings, citing softness in the Mediterranean.
23 June 2026
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Rigetti Computing Stock Jumps as Quantum Rally Revives RGTI Risk Appetite

Rigetti (NASDAQ:RGTI) drops after brief spike, Trump 2028 drive fails to sway market

Rigetti Computing shares fell in late-morning trade Tuesday, erasing earlier gains. The White House set a 2028 goal for building a top-tier quantum computer and announced steps to protect U.S. systems from quantum threats. Rigetti was down 0.6% at $21.25 at 11:49 a.m. EDT. It had reached $22.55 earlier. The fade comes as Washington gives new dates and funding for quantum computing, pushing a field that investors have mostly seen as years away. Quantum computers rely on quantum physics to handle information and could outpace today’s supercomputers on some tough problems, though actual commercial uses are still taking shape.
23 June 2026
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Nasdaq Futures Drop Ahead of Open as Debt Concerns Hit AI Stocks

Nasdaq Futures Drop Ahead of Open as Debt Concerns Hit AI Stocks

Tech names weighed on Wall Street futures early Tuesday as contracts pointed lower before the open. Investors pulled back from artificial intelligence trades while worries about a hawkish Fed path added pressure. Futures trade ahead of the main session and offer a view on where indexes may open. The shift is important since this year’s stock gains have mostly come from pricey AI stocks. With rates up, future profits get discounted harder, and borrowing costs rise for companies paying for data centers, chips and infrastructure with debt.
23 June 2026
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OpenAI pushes $100 billion ChatGPT ad push into key spot in IPO pitch

OpenAI pushes $100 billion ChatGPT ad push into key spot in IPO pitch

OpenAI plans to roll out ChatGPT ads in Brazil and Mexico in the coming weeks, with India next, the company said. Advertising lead David Dugan told reporters at Cannes Lions on Monday that ad revenue would help pay for and expand information access. The move is part of OpenAI’s pitch to investors ahead of a possible U.S. market listing. OpenAI moved ahead two weeks after it filed a confidential draft S-1 for an IPO, its first step toward a public stock sale. The company hasn’t set a timeline. OpenAI said it may be able to finish some tasks more easily as a private firm.
23 June 2026
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Marvell Added to S&P 500 but Shares Fall

Marvell Added to S&P 500 but Shares Fall

Marvell Technology shares traded lower on Monday, dropping in their first session as part of the S&P 500, after a strong rally that turned the chipmaker into a large AI infrastructure play for Wall Street. Shares finished the session off 0.9% at $307.86, with a day range of $298.18 to $314.17. The stock fell further in late trading, recently changing hands at $305.94, according to MarketWatch data. Volume hit 48.37 million, topping the 65-day average of 39.84 million shares.
23 June 2026
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Apple stock ticks up after shareholders reject “China audit” proposal; Nvidia earnings in view

Apple Trades Around $297 While Big Tech Drops, Traders Stick to Price-Hike Wagers on AAPL

Apple ended Monday down 0.3% at $297.01, after hitting $302.42 earlier in the session. While AAPL slipped, the stock did better than the Nasdaq and most big tech names. Over the past five sessions, AAPL is still up about 2%. Apple’s strength is key with the company getting ready to test its pricing power as memory and storage costs go up. The decision is straightforward: either pass the higher costs to customers or take the hit on margins.
23 June 2026
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Alphabet rout dents Nasdaq, oil slide gives Dow a lift

Alphabet rout dents Nasdaq, oil slide gives Dow a lift

Alphabet weighed on U.S. stocks Monday, sending indexes in different directions. The S&P 500 slipped 0.48% to 7,464.36 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.41% to 26,143.95. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed a 0.12% gain to 51,628.79, according to LSEG data on Reuters. Alphabet dropped as worries over AI costs and staff exits put pressure on big tech, but financials and industrials climbed. Oil was down. The Dow held in the green. It wasn't just a straight risk-off session.
22 June 2026
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Student loan autopay discount cut lands just ahead of July repayment reset

Student loan autopay discount cut lands just ahead of July repayment reset

U.S. Education Department is giving federal student-loan borrowers a shot at lower rates if they set up automatic payments, rolling out a two-year, 1-point interest rate cut as part of a broader repayment revamp starting July 1. The offer covers Direct Loans issued after July 1, 2012. Borrowers either already on auto pay or who sign up by Sept. 30 are eligible, the department said. Loan timing is key. Federal loans first disbursed between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027, will use a 4.468% 10-year Treasury yield to set rates. Undergraduate Direct Loans will carry a 6.52% fixed rate, graduate Direct Loans 8.07%, and PLUS loans 9.07%. Those rates stay fixed for the life of the loan.
22 June 2026
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Russell Reconstitution 2026: NASDAQ:CRWV, NYSE:BE Lead the Great Index Migration

Russell Reconstitution 2026: NASDAQ:CRWV, NYSE:BE Lead the Great Index Migration

U.S. index funds are preparing for a concentrated wave of orders at Friday’s close as CoreWeave enters the Russell 1000 from outside the Russell universe and Bloom Energy moves up from the Russell 2000. The reset includes 62 additions to the large-cap Russell 1000, including 43 promotions from the Russell 2000, and 237 additions to the small-cap index, including 37 moving down from the Russell 1000. This matters because roughly $12.2 trillion was benchmarked to Russell U.S. indexes as of June 2025. A reconstitution—a rules-based reset of index members and weights—forces passive funds, which are built to copy an index, to realign their holdings. “The markets have been moving more quickly, market caps are getting bigger,” Catherine Yoshimoto, FTSE Russell’s director of U.S. index product management, said.
22 June 2026
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Alphabet Faces Pressure as Google Stock Drops on $85 Billion Share Sale and AI Talent Outflows

Alphabet Faces Pressure as Google Stock Drops on $85 Billion Share Sale and AI Talent Outflows

Alphabet Class A shares dropped in late morning Nasdaq trade Monday after Citizens gave new support to the stock. Investors focused on Google’s losses in AI staff and the cost of its data-center expansion. Shares changed hands at $347.53, off $20.50. Market focus is shifting now as Alphabet’s top line keeps moving up. First-quarter revenue was $109.9 billion, up 22%, and Google Cloud pulled in $20.0 billion, a gain of 63%. The big question for investors: How much cash, stock or headcount will Alphabet need to keep those numbers growing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon pushing hard in AI?
22 June 2026
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PEPE Whale Wall Puts Focus on $0.00000284 Level

PEPE Whale Wall Puts Focus on $0.00000284 Level

DATELINE: LONDON, June 22, 2026, 08:20 UTC PEPE’s rebound has run out of steam. The meme coin sat near $0.00000284–$0.000003 Monday morning, mostly unchanged in the last 24 hours and stuck below the key short-term level at $0.00000284–$0.00000296. The move isn’t about anything PEPE-specific; the coin hasn’t broken out as the market failed to turn U.S.-Iran talks into a rally for meme tokens. PEPE is still trading about 90% under its December 2024 high. CoinMarketCap lists a $1.18 billion market cap and $112 million in volume over 24 hours, while CoinGecko has volume at $99.8 million.
22 June 2026
Super Micro set for next week after $7B AI server funding lift

Super Micro set for next week after $7B AI server funding lift

Super Micro Computer opens Monday still working to recover from selling pressure sparked by its big financing plan. The stock bounced late last week, ending the short week nearly unchanged. Tough to read the tape. U.S. exchanges were shut Friday for Juneteenth, so there was no cash session. There were no fresh numbers Sunday either. The last move was Thursday, when the stock climbed 10.37% to $30.66. That followed back-to-back drops on Tuesday and Wednesday that weighed on the AI-server maker.
21 June 2026
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GRAB shares climb in short week as market looks at Grab profit goals, Indonesia banking plans

GRAB shares climb in short week as market looks at Grab profit goals, Indonesia banking plans

Grab Holdings shares finished the shortened U.S. trading week up, catching a lift from a Nasdaq rally and new focus on the Southeast Asian super-app’s profit targets as markets closed for Juneteenth and the weekend. The stock ended at $3.57 on the Nasdaq on June 18, up 3.48% for the session. There was no U.S. trading on June 19 because of the Juneteenth holiday. Nasdaq trading hours run Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern.
21 June 2026
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Pelosi family positions in AI, Big Tech grab attention after new trades

Pelosi family positions in AI, Big Tech grab attention after new trades

Pelos family filings show they continue to hold major positions in leading U.S. tech and AI infrastructure stocks, despite selling a large amount of Apple, Nvidia and Amazon back in December. The House filings show these holdings are listed as spouse-owned, not owned directly by Nancy Pelosi. Semiconductor names jumped, pushing Wall Street higher in Thursday's final trading before the Juneteenth holiday. The Philadelphia semiconductor index finished up 6.4%. For the week, the Nasdaq rose 2.43%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.93% and the Dow ended 0.71% higher.
21 June 2026
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Stock Market Today

  • Kolibri Global Energy (KGEI) edges past sector this year
    July 3, 2026, 11:29 AM EDT. Kolibri Global Energy Inc. (KGEI) is up 18.1% so far in 2024, just ahead of the Oils-Energy sector's 17.9% average gain. The stock carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), as full-year earnings estimates have gone up 2.8% in the last three months. KGEI has also outpaced the Oil and Gas - Exploration and Production industry, where peers saw a 14.8% rise. KLX Energy Services (KLXE) is higher, jumping 28.6% this year with its own Buy rating. Both show solid earnings momentum among Oils-Energy stocks in 2024.
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