Today: 29 June 2026

Roman Perkowski

Roman Perkowski is a senior markets reporter at TS2.tech, specializing in stocks, technology and macroeconomic trends. A graduate of the Cracow University of Economics, he previously worked in investment research and corporate finance. His coverage helps readers understand the key forces driving global financial markets and emerging industries.

Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) surge puts stock above most analyst targets ahead of FDA review

Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) surge puts stock above most analyst targets ahead of FDA review

Moderna, Inc. heads into Monday’s U.S. session with its shares now outpacing most analyst targets, leaving the main story a stock issue instead of a scientific one. The stock traded at $67.63 in premarket at 7:01 a.m. EDT, up 0.54%, after jumping 12.59% to $67.27 on Friday. Volume hit 14.46 million shares Friday, 203% of the 65-day average. Moderna was one of the few large healthcare plays to rally Friday, as the rest of the market drifted lower. The S&P 500 slipped 0.05% and the Nasdaq lost 0.24%, according to Reuters, but Moderna shares shot up nearly 13% after its investor event. Early Monday, U.S. futures traded stronger, with S&P 500 E-minis up 0.68% and Nasdaq 100 E-minis up 1.02% at 5:00 a.m. ET.
29 June 2026
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American Airlines stock gains as fuel relief meets July 4 travel rush

American Airlines stock gains as fuel relief meets July 4 travel rush

American Airlines Group Inc. led the big U.S. airline shares in early electronic pricing on Monday, a small but useful tell before a short holiday week. The stock was quoted up 1.8% at $17.87 before the regular Nasdaq session, while United Airlines Holdings Inc. rose 1.1%, Delta Air Lines Inc. gained 0.5% and Southwest Airlines Co. slipped 0.4%. Regular trading in New York was due to start at 9:30 a.m. EDT. June 29 is not listed as a U.S. market holiday on Nasdaq’s 2026 calendar; the next closure is July 3 for Independence Day observed.
29 June 2026
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Nvidia holds $47 billion-per-point sway as Nasdaq tries for bounce

Nvidia holds $47 billion-per-point sway as Nasdaq tries for bounce

NVIDIA Corporation heads into Monday still trading on its size. Shares finished Friday at $192.53, off 1.64%. WSJ/FactSet data had it at $194.849 before the bell at 4:45 a.m. EDT, up 1.20% in premarket action. The dollar beta number is higher. According to finance data, Nvidia has a market cap of $4.696 trillion. So a 1% move is about $47 billion. A 2% change comes to nearly $94 billion.
29 June 2026
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Amazon (AMZN): Prime Day orders drop, AWS margin strength in focus as stock tests rally

Amazon (AMZN): Prime Day orders drop, AWS margin strength in focus as stock tests rally

Amazon.com, Inc. traded up 0.9% at $234.69 in premarket action as of 5:00 a.m. EDT Monday, adding to a 2.5% jump from Friday. Shares ended Friday at $232.69, with volume at 248.37 million, nearly five times the 65-day average, according to Wall Street Journal data. Monday is a normal trading day for U.S. equities. The Nasdaq holiday calendar shows the next full market holiday is set for July 3, when markets shut for the Independence Day observance.
29 June 2026
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SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) launch puts Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ:SIRI) cash flow to the test

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) launch puts Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ:SIRI) cash flow to the test

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, June 29, 2026, 04:12 EDT SpaceX launched Sirius XM Holdings Inc.’s SXM-11 satellite from Cape Canaveral Sunday night. The big 7-ton-plus satellite made it to orbit, taking launch risk off the table. Now investors will watch for it to start generating revenue as part of Sirius XM's satellite-radio fleet.
29 June 2026
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AbbVie stock run lifts pricing on $10.9 billion Apogee deal to six times cost

AbbVie stock run lifts pricing on $10.9 billion Apogee deal to six times cost

U.S. cash equities didn’t trade Sunday, so AbbVie’s most recent close is Friday at $253.35. That’s a 4.2% gain for the day and up 17.0% since June 18, which was the last session ahead of the Juneteenth break and before AbbVie’s deal week kicked off. The scale stands out. With 1.77 billion shares out, going from $216.49 to $253.35 pushed market value up around $65 billion. AbbVie said it will buy Apogee for $10.9 billion in cash. Apogee closed Friday at $132.55, about 1.9% under the $135.11 cash offer.
29 June 2026
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Keel Infrastructure (NASDAQ:KEEL) sees Russell rebalance volume exceed short interest

Keel Infrastructure (NASDAQ:KEEL) sees Russell rebalance volume exceed short interest

Keel Infrastructure Corp offered a clearer view of investor positioning than of share price last week. The former bitcoin miner’s stock edged up 2.7% on Friday, but trading hit 122.41 million shares, 2.7 times its 65-day average. The high volume outweighed the 16-cent price increase. MarketWatch reported Keel’s public float at 601.03 million shares, with 87.29 million shares sold short as of June 15. On Friday, trading volume reached roughly 20.4% of the float and was 1.4 times the size of outstanding short interest. The stock dropped 9.46% over five days, suggesting the move wasn’t a clear momentum break. It appeared more like Russell rebalance flows meeting heavy short interest.
28 June 2026
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IHG buyback near record highs puts capital-return math in focus

IHG buyback near record highs puts capital-return math in focus

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC will start next week with its London shares still close to a record, after the Holiday Inn owner bought stock through June at prices near last week’s high. The London Stock Exchange is shut on weekends; IHG’s latest London trade was Friday’s $171.55 close, down 0.64% on the day. The stock rose 1.36% for the week from its June 19 close, while the FTSE 100 gained 1.40%. IHG touched $175.70 on Thursday, June 25, and volume that day was 839,904 shares, more than twice Friday’s 386,664.
27 June 2026
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Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) gains $8.7 billion as cyber growth bucks Nasdaq drop

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) gains $8.7 billion as cyber growth bucks Nasdaq drop

U.S. stocks were closed Saturday. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. was one of the big software names standing out in a slow tech market. The stock finished at $304.20, up 3.7%. Volume was at 8.27 million shares, giving it a $243.7 billion market cap. Nasdaq Composite ended Friday at 25,297.62, slipping 0.24% for the day and falling 4.6% across the week. Palo Alto finished up 6.2% for the week, moving against the drop in other AI-tied tech stocks.
27 June 2026
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AbbVie grabs Apogee in $10.9 billion deal as buyouts speed up

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) jumps $18 billion Friday, beats Apogee as Skyrizi FDA decision comes Monday

U.S. equity markets were closed for the weekend, so the main takeaway on AbbVie Inc. last week wasn’t limited to the Apogee deal. Investors saw fresh market value assigned to that deal as shares swung again Friday. AbbVie shares jumped $10.21, or 4.2%, to $253.35 on Friday, matching the 52-week high. Roughly 52.6 million shares changed hands, far above the average 5.92 million on Google Finance. At Friday’s close, the move added about $18 billion in market cap, based on Google Finance data.
27 June 2026
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Texas Instruments rout leaves Russell rebalance traders with Monday headache

Texas Instruments rout leaves Russell rebalance traders with Monday headache

Texas Instruments logged a sharp drop to end the week, caught in what traders called the “wrong” side of the Russell reconstitution trade. Shares slid 8.46% to $285.43 on Friday, after starting the week at $332.28 and hitting $334.03 on Monday. Volume spiked to 29.8 million shares, up from about 9.3 million shares a day through Thursday. The stock dropped harder than the chip index. The iShares Semiconductor ETF was down around 5.7% on Friday. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust slipped roughly 0.5%, market data showed.
27 June 2026
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SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) index float faces $8 billion market test as IPO drops

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) index float faces $8 billion market test as IPO drops

U.S. stocks are closed for the weekend, and Space Exploration Technologies Corp is set to face buyers who don’t have many other options. SpaceX is set to join the Nasdaq-100, Nasdaq Inc said, with the change taking effect before trading starts on July 7. The company's addition comes less than a month after SpaceX—described by Nasdaq as a rocket-and-AI company—began trading on June 12. The index has more than 200 tracking products holding over $800 billion, according to Nasdaq.
27 June 2026
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Opendoor volume surpasses short interest after Russell 3000 addition

Opendoor volume surpasses short interest after Russell 3000 addition

Opendoor Technologies Inc. saw trading volume top its most recent reported short interest on Friday as the Russell 3000 rebalance brought a surge in activity to one of the most shorted names in housing tech. Opendoor finished the session up 7 cents, or 1.6%, at $4.37, with a range between $4.20 and $4.51. Volume hit 171.46 million shares, well above its 65-day average of 36.11 million, at 475%. MarketWatch puts the company’s public float at 806.03 million shares and short interest at 153.72 million shares, numbers last updated June 15. In after-hours trading, shares slipped 0.9% to $4.3308 on volume of 31.19 million.
27 June 2026
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Keel Infrastructure trading jumps after Russell add, with short interest high

Keel Infrastructure trading jumps after Russell add, with short interest high

Keel Infrastructure Corp. gained Friday, trading on heavy volume. The action didn’t look like a typical AI play, but rather pointed to index moves and positioning. The stock ended regular trading at $6.03, up 16 cents, or 2.7%. After hours, it edged down to $5.98 as of 6:00 p.m. EDT. MarketWatch data put the day’s volume at 122.31 million shares. The 65-day average volume is 43.39 million.
27 June 2026
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Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) drop puts AI order wave up against valuation pressures

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) drop puts AI order wave up against valuation pressures

Cisco Systems, Inc. dropped 4.5% to $113.77 Friday afternoon, down $5.41 a share and wiping out about $21 billion in market cap based on Google Finance’s 3.94 billion shares figure. Cisco’s trading volume hit 50.10 million shares, above the 28.09 million average, according to Google Finance. Valuation is still in focus. KeyBanc’s Jackson Ader kept an Overweight on Cisco Thursday and bumped the target up to $130 from $125, according to GuruFocus. The new target is just 37 cents under Cisco’s 52-week high, leaving about 14% upside from where shares settled Friday.
26 June 2026
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Shuttle Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SHPH) surges; Dogecoin miner news sends volume up 70x

Shuttle Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SHPH) surges; Dogecoin miner news sends volume up 70x

Shuttle Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc surged Friday as United Dogecoin, its unit, said it picked up its first Dogecoin miners and locked in a hydroelectric data centre site. The former drug developer saw sharp trading and became one of the busiest micro-cap names of the session. The stock jumped 27.38% to $4.815 as of 11:02 a.m. EDT, trading between $4.56 and $6.15. Volume was 21.7 million shares, far above the 65-day average of 311,064, Wall Street Journal data showed. The Health Care/Life Sciences group added 1.09%. The Russell 2000 slipped 0.10%.
26 June 2026
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Dow trades stable close to 52,000; Alphabet change stirs talk on price weighting

Dow trades stable close to 52,000; Alphabet change stirs talk on price weighting

Dow finishes the morning close to unchanged in Friday trading, as the index’s price-weighted math drew fresh attention. U.S. stocks are open for the regular NYSE session from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. NYSE’s 2026 holiday calendar does not include a closure for June 26. Dow eked out a 13.89 point gain to 51,934.51 as of 10:35 a.m. EDT, up 0.03%. The index swung from 51,614.74 to 52,030.50 earlier. S&P 500 stayed flat and Nasdaq slipped 0.16%, WSJ market data showed.
26 June 2026
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EchoStar (ECHO) reset pulls attention to AT&T cash and SpaceX index moves

EchoStar (ECHO) reset pulls attention to AT&T cash and SpaceX index moves

EchoStar Corporation added 1.7% to $98.84 early Friday on Nasdaq, taking back some of the ground lost after changing its ticker from SATS. The stock had ended June 23 at $103.92, its last full day as SATS, then dropped to $97.19 by June 25, off 6.5% after two sessions as ECHO. Trading volumes reached 8.74 million shares June 24 and 8.71 million June 25, both lower than the 11.74 million traded June 23. EchoStar’s new ticker went live June 24. The company said its CUSIP number didn’t change, so holders don’t have to do anything. “Changing our stock ticker to ‘ECHO’ represents our growth from a pure-play satellite company to a global corporate leader with a diverse set of connectivity assets,” founder, CEO and chairman Charlie Ergen said in a statement.
26 June 2026
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SELLAS Life Sciences (NASDAQ:SLS) rises as short interest builds, company files change-control ahead of AML update

SELLAS Life Sciences (NASDAQ:SLS) rises as short interest builds, company files change-control ahead of AML update

SELLAS Life Sciences Group climbed 6.3% to $11.19 in early trade Friday, reaching as high as $11.29. The stock outpaced the broader biotech sector, with State Street’s SPDR S&P Biotech ETF gaining 1.8%. SLS volume jumped Thursday, trading 15.11 million shares on June 25, close to double its 65-day average of 7.57 million. The stock closed at $10.53 after reaching $11.06, according to FactSet data from the Wall Street Journal.
26 June 2026
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BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) jumps after QNX outlook nudge, eyes on cash flow

BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) stock watches QNX beat with AI premium in play after $1B re-rate

BlackBerry Limited shares jumped in a single session, driving market value to around $6.06 billion at Thursday’s close, as traders shifted away from seeing it as just a slow software turnaround to playing it as an embedded-AI bet. Google Finance pegged the stock at $10.34 on the close, then $10.05 in Friday’s premarket, off 2.8% from that finish. The scale of the re-rate stands out less. Using Google Finance’s 586.06 million shares count, the $1.71 jump in regular trading put about $1.0 billion onto BlackBerry’s market cap. The company’s updated fiscal 2027 revenue forecast was set at $594 million to $621 million, which is a $10 million increase at the midpoint from the earlier $584 million to $611 million range.
26 June 2026
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