Today: 4 July 2026

Leokadia Głogulska

Leokadia Głogulska is a financial and technology journalist at TS2.tech, covering stocks, artificial intelligence, space technology and global market developments. She graduated from Wrocław University of Economics and Business and previously worked in financial analysis before moving into business journalism. Her reporting focuses on helping readers understand the market trends, companies and technologies shaping the global economy.

CoreWeave slides as Meta risk hangs over backlog defense

CoreWeave slides as Meta risk hangs over backlog defense

CoreWeave, Inc. headed into the extended U.S. holiday break with shares showing more strain than momentum. U.S. equity markets were closed Friday, July 3, for the Independence Day observance. Trading also paused Saturday. NYSE’s posted 2026 calendar confirms July 3 as a holiday closure. CoreWeave shares fell 4.60% to $81.75 on Thursday, slipping on volume of 32.79 million, which topped its 65-day average. The stock was down 15.36% for the past five days, erasing more than what was left of its 14.15% year-to-date gain. It finished about 18% above its 52-week low and well below its high, with a 52-week range between $63.80 and $163.66, according to MarketWatch.
4 July 2026
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ExxonMobil Holdings (NYSE:XOM) Texas-parent shares begin trading ahead of next profit report

ExxonMobil Holdings (NYSE:XOM) Texas-parent shares begin trading ahead of next profit report

ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation started trading as the new public parent of the Exxon oil group, ending Thursday up 0.59% at $137.09 after a July 1 redomiciliation that moved the parent to Texas, while keeping the NYSE “XOM” ticker. The SEC filing showed each old ExxonMobil share converted into one share of ExxonMobil Holdings, with the new parent now taking ExxonMobil’s spot as the listed company on the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE-listed shares were closed Friday as U.S. markets were shut for Independence Day on July 3. That meant Thursday’s close was the last trading mark ahead of the weekend, so the new parent company only got a four-day debut, not a full week.
4 July 2026
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Amazon stock beats Nasdaq before holiday break; focus on Leo, Prime Day data next week

Amazon stock beats Nasdaq before holiday break; focus on Leo, Prime Day data next week

Amazon.com Inc. outperformed the Nasdaq before the long holiday weekend, but its story is still mixed. The stock gained in the final session before the July 3 market holiday, while chip stocks dragged on the Nasdaq and the wider market showed Dow strength but pressure on other big tech. Nasdaq will close July 3, 2026 for the observed Independence Day holiday. Usual cash trading runs 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern, so the next full session is set for Monday, July 6.
3 July 2026
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) heads into July 4 after $209B holiday week gain

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) heads into July 4 after $209B holiday week gain

Apple Inc. jumped 8.8% across the four sessions heading into the U.S. holiday, while tech stocks turned mixed on Thursday as the Nasdaq lost ground. The late dip kept Apple’s move more isolated. NYSE will close for Independence Day observed on Friday, July 3, so Thursday marked the last regular close before markets open again on Monday. Apple ended July 2 at $308.63, gaining $14.25, or 4.84%. Around 75.40 million shares traded. On June 26, Apple closed at $283.78, and it finished at $294.38 on July 1, WSJ market data showed.
3 July 2026
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Dow up but AI-chip slide hits Nasdaq after jobs report

US stock futures set for gains ahead of July 4; chip selloff masks broader move

U.S. stock investors go into the long weekend without the usual premarket session, as exchanges stay closed for Independence Day observed. The last read on futures had buyers stepping in after a weaker jobs report eased worries about a Fed rate hike soon. U.S. stock and bond markets are shut Friday and regular trading starts back up Monday, July 6. The Dow finished at a record, but the bigger story was the split between index price and market breadth. On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed little changed, but over two-thirds of its stocks traded higher. The Nasdaq slipped as traders reduced chip bets. That leaves Monday looking less like a typical risk-on move and more like a check on whether buyers stick with old-economy and defensive names while AI shares feel pressure.
3 July 2026
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Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ:RIVN) stock rally puts $1.8 billion price on 3,000 more deliveries

Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ:RIVN) stock rally puts $1.8 billion price on 3,000 more deliveries

Rivian Automotive, Inc. gave investors a clean delivery beat before a closed U.S. market day. The harder part is the math behind the rally: Thursday’s gain priced in about $1.8 billion of new equity value for a company that raised the midpoint of its 2026 delivery target by only 3,000 vehicles. The EV maker produced 12,613 vehicles and delivered 12,194 in the second quarter at its Normal, Illinois plant. That topped its own 9,000-11,000 vehicle outlook, helped by EDV vans, R1 demand and the first R2 deliveries. Rivian raised its full-year delivery range to 65,000-70,000 from 62,000-67,000.
3 July 2026
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Microsoft tops Nasdaq as $2.5 billion AI plan sparks bargain trade

Microsoft tops Nasdaq as $2.5 billion AI plan sparks bargain trade

Microsoft Corporation shares climbed Thursday even as the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.80%. Investors moved out of chip stocks and into some software names. Microsoft ended up $6.21 at $390.49 on 41.23 million shares, a bit above its 65-day average. Microsoft’s $2.5 billion move on its new AI unit got attention, but the real story is the scale. The Frontier Company bet is under 0.1% of Microsoft’s $2.85 trillion value. On Thursday, the share price was up $6.21, which by itself added about 20 times more market value than the AI unit investment, with 7.43 billion shares out.
3 July 2026
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Comcast stock in focus: CMCSA ends week higher as Jan. 29 earnings loom

Comcast Shares Pause With NBCUniversal Spin-Off Hopes Facing Broadband Concerns

Comcast Corporation eked out a small gain Thursday, ending a run of volatile sessions linked to its proposal to separate NBCUniversal and Sky from its cable arm. Shares closed at $23.79, up 0.25%, with 42.1 million shares traded according to WSJ’s quote page, over the 65-day average of 34.3 million. Comcast’s gain looked better on paper than in the tape. The stock is up 62 cents since closing at $23.17 on June 26. With about 3.56 billion shares out, that’s $2.2 billion in new equity value, even as nearly 289.8 million shares traded from June 29 to July 2.
3 July 2026
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TELUS (TSE:T) slide gives new CEO a tougher dividend challenge

TELUS (TSE:T) slide gives new CEO a tougher dividend challenge

TELUS Corporation dropped in Toronto on Thursday, the first day of trading since Victor Dodig became CEO. The yield on the stock sits well above that of other big Canadian telecoms, but TELUS is still working to cut its leverage, leaving investors with a new issue to figure out. The Toronto Stock Exchange was shut Wednesday for Canada Day, with trading back to normal on Thursday. TELUS started at CA$15.00, moved up to CA$15.25 before dropping to CA$14.71—the same 52-week low shown on Google Finance. S&P/TSX Composite Index traded higher late morning.
2 July 2026
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UiPath (NYSE:PATH) rally sticks as ARR focus moves weight to H2

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) rally sticks as ARR focus moves weight to H2

UiPath Inc. traded at about $11.55 ahead of Thursday’s open. That’s near MarketBeat’s $11.60 extended-hours quote from 6:31 a.m. EDT. Shares climbed 6.1% in the regular session Wednesday. The NYSE hadn’t started core hours yet; official trading goes from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern, with Friday, July 3, set as the Independence Day observed holiday. The bigger challenge for investors isn’t the first-day stock reaction. It’s the renewal math. UiPath’s Q1 report put ARR at $1.901 billion as of April 30. Net new ARR for Q1 totaled $49 million. The company guided for July-quarter ARR between $1.929 billion and $1.934 billion, and sees fiscal 2027 ARR coming in between $2.058 billion and $2.063 billion. CEO Daniel Dines said the quarter was a “strong start,” pointing to agentic products shifting from pilot to production. Operating chief and CFO Ashim Gupta pointed to “operational discipline,” adding UiPath posted its first-ever GAAP profit for the first quarter.
2 July 2026
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American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) trades near 52-week high after strong holiday travel

American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) trades near 52-week high after strong holiday travel

American Airlines Group Inc. heads into Thursday’s premarket as investors weigh summer demand without much new guidance on earnings. The stock finished Wednesday at $18.15, up 0.44%. Google Finance showed shares hit $18.47, matching the 52-week high. Airline stocks didn't move together. American climbed, but Delta Air Lines Inc., United Airlines Holdings Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. dropped Wednesday, MarketWatch data showed. The S&P 500 Index was also down.
2 July 2026
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After hours: chip names slide but rest of US market is quiet

After hours: chip names slide but rest of US market is quiet

U.S. stock ETF proxies slipped in after-hours trade Wednesday, but losses were lighter than the chip selloff during the main session. SPY last changed hands at $744.85, off 0.12%. QQQ traded at $724.24, down 0.13%. DIA was down 0.13% to $521.72 near 7:52 p.m. ET, according to Investing.com. Nasdaq’s after-hours session runs from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET. Stocks closed lower in the regular session. The Dow dipped 13.96 points, or 0.03%, ending at 52,305.24. The S&P 500 dropped 16.13 points, or 0.22%, to 7,483.23. The Nasdaq Composite finished down 173.69 points, or 0.66%, at 26,040.03. Reuters said chipmakers lagged behind, pulling the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 6.3%. Meta Platforms gained 8.8% after a Bloomberg story on a cloud venture.
2 July 2026
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Robinhood (HOOD) Slides After $2 Billion Debt Move

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) approaches $100 billion as June trading run rate tops May

NEW YORK, July 1, 2026, 19:04 EDT—Robinhood Markets is closing in on a $100 billion market cap after the company said its trading run rate for June beat May. Robinhood Markets, Inc. surged 8.35% to $108.65 Wednesday, bucking the market as SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust edged down 0.12% and Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 slipped 1.51%. Coinbase Global, Inc. added 8.91%, while Bitcoin picked up 3.01%.
2 July 2026
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Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) slides as neocloud contract bump gets tested

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) slides as neocloud contract bump gets tested

Nebius Group N.V. dropped sharply after Nasdaq's regular close, but the stock is still up 173.79% for the year. Trading volume was 175% of the 65-day average. MarketWatch put short interest at 50.93 million shares as of June 15, about 25.21% of the float. That kind of short interest can drive swings both ways, but it didn't stop the fall on Wednesday. Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a cloud business to sell its extra AI computing power, Reuters said, citing Bloomberg News. The plan is still being developed and could shift, according to the report. Meta didn’t comment. The move could put Meta in the supplier camp for companies that rent GPU capacity.
1 July 2026
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Snap (NYSE:SNAP) gains as short interest drops, putting squeeze bets in question

Snap (NYSE:SNAP) gains as short interest drops, putting squeeze bets in question

Snap Inc. climbed roughly 7.1% to $4.75 in late trading Wednesday. That move was larger than what recent short interest figures suggested. Regular trading on the NYSE closed at 4:00 p.m. ET, and by 17:01 EDT, the session had ended. Snap’s 31.5-cent rise on 1.689 billion shares adds up to a market cap gain of about $530 million for the day. That’s about the same as the $535.62 million in Snap shares sold short, according to the latest data.
1 July 2026
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Datavault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT) gains 21% on $700 million minerals push, but $1 Nasdaq gap holds

Datavault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT) gains 21% on $700 million minerals push, but $1 Nasdaq gap holds

Datavault AI Inc. jumped 21% after outlining its $700 million minerals plan, but the stock still trades a dollar below Nasdaq minimums. Datavault AI Inc. jumped 21.0% to $0.4234 by midday Wednesday. The company said it is teaming up with Patriot Strategic Metals LLC on a planned strategic minerals platform with an initial Phase I program of up to $700 million. Shares stayed well below the $1 close needed for a Nasdaq cure.
1 July 2026
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Social Security July 2026 payment schedule creates $11.5 billion SSI timing shift for investors

Social Security July 2026 payment schedule creates $11.5 billion SSI timing shift for investors

The July Social Security calendar is a cash-timing story for markets. It pulls one August Supplemental Security Income payment into July. It also moves the usual July 3 Social Security date to July 2, so benefit cash hits at both ends of the month. The July 1 payment covers SSI. The July 2 payment covers beneficiaries who started before May 1997 and other exception groups, because the government observes Independence Day on July 3 this year. The standard Social Security birthday waves land on July 8, July 15 and July 22. The August SSI payment goes out July 31 because Aug. 1 falls on a Saturday.
1 July 2026
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AT&T stock drop draws attention to spectrum deal, dividend payout

AT&T stock drop draws attention to spectrum deal, dividend payout

AT&T shares were at $20.70 before trading started in New York on Wednesday, down 5.2%. The slide wiped out roughly $7.9 billion in market value for the telecom group, going by current shares outstanding and market cap. The main NYSE session begins at 9:30 a.m. ET. AT&T holders have to weigh two things: timing around the EchoStar Corp. spectrum close and more selling in U.S. wireless names after SpaceX and Charter Communications Inc. were reported in phone-service talks.
1 July 2026
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Stock Market Today

  • SK Hynix Sets 0.5% Fee Target for Nasdaq IPO
    July 4, 2026, 2:20 PM EDT. SK Hynix, the South Korean memory chip company, is looking to pay a 0.5% fee on proceeds from its planned Nasdaq IPO, sources said. That fee level ranks among the highest for a listing, giving a big payday to the IPO's underwriters. SK Hynix is making a strategic move to tap the U.S. capital markets as it seeks to grow its semiconductor business.
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