Today: 4 July 2026

Mateusz Kaczmarek

Mateusz Kaczmarek is a financial and technology journalist at TS2.tech, covering stocks, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and global market developments. A graduate of the Poznań University of Economics and Business, he previously worked in financial analysis before moving into business journalism. His reporting focuses on technology companies, market trends and the forces shaping global investment markets.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) shares down as AI layoffs put focus on cloud spending

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) shares down as AI layoffs put focus on cloud spending

Oracle shares dropped 2.7% to $170.32 in late-morning New York trading Tuesday. The move came after the company said in its annual report that its workforce was down by around 21,000 in fiscal 2026, raising investor worries about the cost of its AI plans. Oracle touched $165.00 earlier. The company’s market value now sits near $496 billion. Poor timing for tech stocks. U.S. technology shares dropped as investors pulled money from semiconductor and AI-linked names. Both the Nasdaq and S&P 500 traded at more than one-week lows. Nigel Green, chief executive of deVere Group, said the AI trade was so crowded that “the exit door becomes very small very quickly.”
23 June 2026
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Sky Quarry Stock Pulls Back After Monday’s 62% Jump Ahead of Nevada Refinery Test

Sky Quarry Stock Pulls Back After Monday’s 62% Jump Ahead of Nevada Refinery Test

Sky Quarry Inc. shares dropped Tuesday morning, retreating after a sharp rally the day before when the micro-cap refiner announced its Nevada refinery was starting production. The stock last changed hands at $1.66, off 24 cents from Monday, having moved between $1.58 and $1.815 so far. Sky Quarry shares fell after Monday’s surge, when the stock jumped 62.4% to finish at $1.90 with roughly 221.4 million shares traded. The spike came after Sky Quarry said repairs finished at the Eagle Springs refinery, with operations set to start in July.
23 June 2026
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Oriental Rise Soars on Reverse Split, Nasdaq Issue Remains

Oriental Rise Soars on Reverse Split, Nasdaq Issue Remains

• Oriental Rise traded higher in early Nasdaq action as a 1-for-4 reverse split kicked in Monday.• The tea supplier remains in the middle of a Nasdaq delisting procedure over the $1 minimum bid price rule.• The split affects share count and price, leaving the business unchanged. Oriental Rise Holdings Limited stock jumped in early Nasdaq trade Tuesday after the 1-for-4 reverse split kicked in, but most of the gains faded after the open. The Chinese tea supplier had seen shares surge sharply right at the start.
23 June 2026
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Primoris Slides 35% After Renewables Cost Hit, 2026 Outlook Cut

Primoris Slides 35% After Renewables Cost Hit, 2026 Outlook Cut

Primoris Services Corp dropped 35.5% in premarket trading Tuesday, Dow Jones/FactSet said, after the infrastructure firm cut its 2026 profit forecast. The move follows new cost overruns in its renewables unit. This isn’t just a routine guidance cut. The decision has stirred up worries that the issues dogging renewable-energy projects since the first quarter haven't let up. Those projects seem to be turning against the company again, and now there’s also a new operations head in the mix.
23 June 2026
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Nasdaq Futures Drop Ahead of Open as Debt Concerns Hit AI Stocks

Nasdaq 100 Slides, Tech Stocks Wipe Out $1 Trillion

Nasdaq 100 was set to lose over $1 trillion in market value Tuesday, with tech stock selling moving from megacaps into chip and memory names, tightening the pressure ahead of the New York open. SpaceX shares slipped too, falling below the $2 trillion mark for the first time since its U.S. debut, Reuters said. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 891.75 points, or 2.91%, at 06:42 a.m. ET, and S&P 500 futures lost 1.5%, Reuters reported. The market's leading 2026 trade — AI-related growth stocks — is under pressure from two sides: more concern about AI spending returns and the outlook for higher U.S. rates.
23 June 2026
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Tianci International (NASDAQ:CIHK) jumps premarket on profit swing and $4.9 million raise

Tianci International (NASDAQ:CIHK) jumps premarket on profit swing and $4.9 million raise

Tianci International shares rallied sharply in Tuesday's premarket after a late filing Monday. The Hong Kong freight forwarder reported a swing to a small profit for the quarter with revenue up significantly. Tianci traded at $0.8487 in premarket action by 8:05 a.m. EDT, up 73.2% from Monday’s close of $0.49, according to WSJ data. More than 74 million shares moved in premarket trading. That’s after 43.8 million traded Monday, against a 65-day average near 4.5 million. Nasdaq’s main session runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern, with premarket hours from 4:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
23 June 2026
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Ford Gets New Deadline; Canada Focused as Traders Watch

Ford Gets New Deadline; Canada Focused as Traders Watch

Ford Motor shares fell early Tuesday, moving lower in light premarket action. The stock tracked a new labor deadline in Canada, while U.S. stock futures stayed under pressure. Ford was indicated at $13.90 ahead of the open, off 1.49% from its $14.11 close on Monday. That’s premarket, when volumes tend to be lower than the regular session starting at 9:30 a.m. ET.
23 June 2026
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Nasdaq slips in after-hours as AI stocks drop, Dow stays positive

Nasdaq slips in after-hours as AI stocks drop, Dow stays positive

U.S. index ETFs were little changed in after-hours trading Monday. The Invesco QQQ Trust slipped 0.28% and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF dipped 0.11% just before 8 p.m. New York time. Dow ETF DIA inched up 0.02%. That kept the regular session’s pattern: blue chips up, growth weaker. Dow eked out a gain on the day, up 148.01 points, or 0.29%, closing at 51,712.71. S&P 500 slipped 27.79 points, down 0.37%, ending at 7,472.79. Nasdaq Composite dropped 351.33 points, or 1.32%, to finish at 26,166.60. Traders didn’t see many reasons to jump into tech in the cash session.
23 June 2026
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Coherent (NYSE:COHR) up 9% as AI optics squeeze takes focus, not grant size

Coherent (NYSE:COHR) up 9% as AI optics squeeze takes focus, not grant size

Coherent Corp. rallied 9.2% on Monday, closing at $425.38. The move brought the photonics supplier near its 52-week high as the AI trade continued to reward stocks tied to data transfer as well as compute. Trading volume reached 7.03 million shares, matching the 65-day average, so this wasn’t a light post-holiday session. Coherent’s latest rally picked up after the NYSE reopened following Friday’s Juneteenth market holiday. The bigger story is capacity for indium phosphide, or InP. It’s a compound semiconductor that makes high-speed optical chips for moving data with light in AI data centers. The NYSE lists June 19 as the 2026 Juneteenth market holiday.
22 June 2026
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Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) rises as investors look past tech selloff to AI optics capacity clue

Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) rises as investors look past tech selloff to AI optics capacity clue

Applied Optoelectronics shares rose on Monday as investors bought back into one of the year’s most volatile AI-infrastructure names, even as the broader technology tape weakened. Applied Optoelectronics traded at $174.41, up $12.56, with volume above 10.5 million shares in afternoon dealings. That matters now because the move came on a day when the Nasdaq Composite was down more than 1%, pressured by weakness in megacap technology stocks. Investors are still questioning the cost of hyperscaler infrastructure spending — hyperscalers are the very large cloud companies building AI data centers — but the market is drawing a sharper line between cloud platforms and the component makers that sell into the buildout.
22 June 2026
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Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) falls on Nasdaq-100 inclusion, SpaceX slide and share sale concerns

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) falls on Nasdaq-100 inclusion, SpaceX slide and share sale concerns

Rocket Lab Corporation fell on Monday as the stock debuted in the Nasdaq-100. The move put RKLB at the center of a trade built on forced index buying, with the price pulled by the broad reset that's hit space companies since SpaceX changed the sector's tone. Rocket Lab shares traded at $99.49, down roughly 7.2%. The stock hit an intraday high at $107.37 and dropped to $96.56. More than 18.8 million shares changed hands by early afternoon in New York.
22 June 2026
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Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) gains as AI data demand pushes grid limits

Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) gains as AI data demand pushes grid limits

New York, June 22, 2026, 2:04 PM EDT Bloom Energy kept rising Monday, with shares staying close to new highs after last week’s 15% surge tied to investor demand for AI data-center power. The stock’s jump is shifting Bloom from a niche clean-power play to a test of whether Wall Street is ready to give utility-style valuations to companies delivering quick, on-site power.
22 June 2026
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CoreWeave and Nebius face Nasdaq-100 test as AI rally cools

CoreWeave and Nebius face Nasdaq-100 test as AI rally cools

Nebius Group and CoreWeave made their Nasdaq-100 debut Monday. CoreWeave was down $10.05, trading at $107.90 just before 1 p.m. EDT. Nebius also traded lower, dropping to $280.41 after closing at $286.69. Early trading didn’t deliver much excitement for either new listing as buyers seemed cautious after the recent run for AI-cloud names. Nasdaq says over 200 products worldwide track the Nasdaq-100, holding more than $800 billion. The changes force ETFs and passive funds tied to the index to shift holdings to stay in line, not make new picks.
22 June 2026
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HIVE shares rise after Paraguay AI pilot resets bitcoin miner outlook

HIVE shares rise after Paraguay AI pilot resets bitcoin miner outlook

HIVE Digital Technologies shares surged Monday as the company said Columbia University researchers had validated its Paraguay GPU cluster for AI research. The news gave another sign of HIVE’s move into high-performance computing. HIVE was at $5.12 on Nasdaq, up around 20% from its previous close. More than 54 million shares changed hands during the session. HIVE wants to show its mining sites can bring in more value running AI compute than just mining bitcoin. The company said researchers in New York completed training runs using GPUs stationed over 5,000 miles away in Asunción. HIVE called the test an early example of cross-border AI work that doesn't have to happen in Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley or Toronto.
22 June 2026
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Solana DEX Volume Rises, Heaping Pressure on Coinbase and Kraken

Solana DEX Volume Rises, Heaping Pressure on Coinbase and Kraken

Solana’s decentralized-exchange market is now trading at levels close to big centralized players. Recent data and sector reports show Solana-based trading volumes topping Coinbase and Kraken, and sometimes nearly matching Bybit. Decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, run swaps over blockchain protocols instead of a company-run order book. That difference is getting more attention as the trading flow moves beyond technical talk among crypto pros. It's turning into a test case for where both retail users and high-speed token traders end up trading.
22 June 2026
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Brands push influencer ads toward $44 billion in creator spend

Brands push influencer ads toward $44 billion in creator spend

Creator marketing kept moving into ad budgets on Monday, as new reports put U.S. creator ad spend close to $44 billion in 2026. Brands are pushing more into longer-term, trackable partnerships, less reliant on single sponsored posts. ECIKS, pulling from Global Brands Magazine, said that in 2026, deals with performance targets—where pay is based on clicks, sales or similar results—hit 53% of all arrangements. That's up from 23% in 2024. Cannes Lions, the industry's top ad event, kicked off Monday and goes through June 26. That’s a live backdrop for creator marketing as CMOs are under pressure to deliver more than just social buzz—now it’s about showing this content can drive revenue, not just attention.
22 June 2026
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Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) stock pinned near CFO-exit selloff as investors wait for proof on growth

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) stock pinned near CFO-exit selloff as investors wait for proof on growth

Pfizer Inc entered Monday pinned near last week’s selloff, with investors still weighing the planned departure of finance chief Dave Denton against the company’s promise of post-2028 growth. For NYSE:PFE, the timing matters. Regular NYSE trading had not opened at the dateline time; the exchange’s core session runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, and Friday was a Juneteenth market holiday, making Thursday’s reaction the last full trading signal.
22 June 2026
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NASDAQ: KEEL Pops 5% Before Market on Russell Watch and Leasing Angle

NASDAQ: KEEL Pops 5% Before Market on Russell Watch and Leasing Angle

NEW YORK, June 22, 2026, 05:02 a.m. EDT — NASDAQ: KEEL moved up 5% pre-market on fresh attention to its Russell index timing, but traders are also betting on the leasing business. Keel Infrastructure Corp. is set to open higher in the U.S. Monday. The stock is indicated at $6.60, up $0.309, or 4.91%, from its Nasdaq close of $6.29. The move is a catch-up to Friday’s TSX action—U.S. markets were shut for Juneteenth, but KEEL in Toronto jumped 12.33%. Keel is also seeing fresh index demand as it gets added to the Russell 3000, and traders are still weighing its $458 million convertible-note deal.
22 June 2026
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Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) gains ahead of earnings; Street eyes $20.57 EPS bar

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) gains ahead of earnings; Street eyes $20.57 EPS bar

NEW YORK, June 22, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET Micron Technology is active again before the open. The shares were at $1,168.46 as of 5:00 a.m. ET Monday, up $34.47, or 3.04%, from Friday’s regular close of $1,133.99. That close had already put MU up 8.70% heading into the Juneteenth break. Traders are lining up ahead of Micron’s fiscal third-quarter report on June 24, betting on AI memory demand, a tight supply picture and higher profit forecasts to set the tone for semiconductors.
22 June 2026
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Stock Market Today

  • Micron Kicks Off $9 Billion Japan Plant Expansion
    July 4, 2026, 12:08 PM EDT. Micron Technology (MU) broke ground on its $9 billion expansion at the Western Japan factory. The company said the project will add chip production as demand grows. Micron is looking to ramp up supply for key markets by building out capacity in Asia. Investors are watching the shares as the company moves ahead with this manufacturing push in Japan, which is important to the chip supply chain.
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