Today: 6 July 2026

Amazon stock outperforms Nasdaq in quiet week as July 6 open approaches

Amazon stock outperforms Nasdaq in quiet week as July 6 open approaches

Amazon.com, Inc. heads into Monday’s U.S. open coming off a better week than the Nasdaq, though trading was messier than the weekly numbers look. Shares finished Thursday at $242.67, up $9.98 over where they settled June 26 at $232.69. That’s a 4.3% jump for the four-day week. The Nasdaq Composite added 2.1%. The S&P 500 advanced 1.8% and the Dow climbed around 2% as U.S. trading paused Friday for Independence Day observed. Nasdaq listed July 3 as a market holiday, with normal trading hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern.
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Ford (NYSE:F) heads into next week as F-Series builds up, testing margins and stock

Ford (NYSE:F) heads into next week as F-Series builds up, testing margins and stock

Ford Motor Company heads into the week with more focus on inventories than the raw sales figures suggest. Shares slid every day during the shortened U.S. week and finished Thursday at $13.36, off 5.5% since June 26. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust gained 2.2% over the same stretch by this reporter’s check of historical closes. S&P 500 was up 1.8% for the week, per AP market data. U.S. exchanges were shut Friday for the Independence Day holiday. Another figure worth watching is Ford’s gross stock. The company reported 190,400 F-Series units in gross stock at the end of June, while it sold 197,900 F-Series trucks in the second quarter. Overall, Ford had 471,000 vehicles in gross stock, which comes out to around 86% of Q2 sales. This isn’t a demand signal. The real question for the second half is whether Ford can move its truck and SUV inventories without heavy discounts.
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Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) jumps, adding $14.6B in market cap as Nasdaq edges down ahead of July 4

Netflix bounces 5%, traders watching 26x cash flow as Q2 nears

U.S. stock markets were closed Friday, July 3 for the Independence Day holiday. Nasdaq’s normal trading hours, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, will pick up again Monday. Netflix, Inc. isn’t a live tape story this weekend, but it’s still on the setup list. Netflix finished Thursday at $77.65, gaining 4.66%. Trading volume hit 55.54 million shares, or 134% of its 65-day average, according to MarketWatch. Shares remain in the lower half of the 52-week band between $70.86 and $129.50 despite bouncing back for two days.
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MARA Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA) shares slip as bitcoin gains can’t boost miner

MARA Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA) opens week with heavy short interest after miners dropped

U.S. markets were shut Friday for Independence Day, leaving Thursday as the last session for bitcoin miners before trading resumes Monday. MARA Holdings, Inc. heads into the week with a still-heavy short position and shares off 14.72% over the past five days. MARA dropped 7.26% to $12.40 Thursday. About 50.63 million shares changed hands, 116% of its 65-day average volume. Shares hit $11.98 during the session, near the low of its $11.98–$14.09 range.
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Keel Infrastructure drop brings June convert terms back ahead of Nasdaq open

Keel Infrastructure stock set for Monday after Nasdaq drops, TSX moves higher

Keel Infrastructure Corp. starts Monday’s U.S. trade with mixed moves. KEEL saw a tough Nasdaq finish before the break, but picked up slightly in Toronto after. Nasdaq was closed July 3 for the Independence Day holiday. Toronto’s exchange stayed open, letting KEEL shares trade there Friday. TradingView pegged KEEL at $4.59, off 27.60% for the week. StockAnalysis listed the TSX at C$6.54 on July 3. AP data had the Nasdaq Composite up 2.1% this week and the Russell 2000 down 0.5%.
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BlackBerry (NYSE:BB; TSE:BB) surge highlights $200 million convertible-note deal

BlackBerry (BB) heads into the week after QNX surge, valuation now in focus

BlackBerry Limited goes into this week with a changed story from last month. Shares have already moved up. U.S. markets had a holiday-shortened session. Now the market is watching to see if investors will value BlackBerry like a software name while revenue stays modest. U.S. markets stayed closed Friday for the Independence Day holiday. The Toronto Stock Exchange was shut Wednesday for Canada Day but traded as usual Friday. NYSE trading hours are set to return Monday unless there is a separate halt. The TMX calendar lists July 3 as a U.S. holiday for special settlement, not a closure for Canadian markets.
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Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) stuck near $24; 7% yield comes into view

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) stuck near $24; 7% yield comes into view

Pfizer Inc. heads into this week after the stock managed to stop the steep drops, though buyers are still scarce. Shares ended Thursday at $24.32, just 3 cents above where they were on June 26. Over the last four sessions, 204.2 million shares moved, good for a 0.12% rise. That volume is around 3.6% of Pfizer’s diluted share count used in Q1 EPS calculations. The NYSE stayed closed on Friday so the tape didn't move. The exchange had July 3 as its 2026 Independence Day holiday. July 5 is a Sunday in New York. NYSE core trading runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.
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IREN trades lower after Russell 1000 entry draws new attention to CEO share awards

IREN trades lower after Russell 1000 entry draws new attention to CEO share awards

IREN Limited is set to reopen July 6 after a rough stretch that followed its addition to the Russell 1000. The stock dropped every day in its first shortened week in the index. Shares saw their steepest loss after a stock grant to the new co-CEO appeared in filings. Nasdaq didn’t open Friday for the Independence Day holiday. IREN’s last regular session close was Thursday at $38.82, down 10.39% on volume of 60.37 million shares. That’s about 1.35 times its 65-day average, according to the market data.
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Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) sinks post-holiday; Toyota partnership triggers funding after insider sale headlines

Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) sinks post-holiday; Toyota partnership triggers funding after insider sale headlines

Joby comes into Monday after dropping 3.96% to $8.49 before the U.S. holiday. After-hours ticked up to $8.51. Volume spiked to 56.18 million, well over the 65-day average of 32.86 million, according to MarketWatch. Short interest and Toyota paperwork are in play. The latest filing data looks clearer than what the headline suggests. Seven Rule 144 filings on July 2 involved shares picked up July 1 as restricted stock units from Joby’s 2021 incentive plan. All together, these sales planned for about $563,851 — a small amount for the market, and even smaller compared to Joby’s 983.6 million shares out.
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Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock trades at 43 times sales as holiday week begins

Palantir (PLTR) pops 14.5% in holiday week, AI trade shows fresh signs

Palantir finished the short holiday week with a 14.5% gain from June 26 to Thursday's close, outpacing the 6.1% move in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF. The stock acted more like it was moving on its own news than just following the AI software group. NVIDIA Corp., now teaming with Palantir on sovereign AI work, added 1.2% in the same stretch. Palantir’s four-day average volume this week came in at 49.7 million shares, about 9.4% higher than MarketWatch’s 65-day norm of 45.47 million. That’s not light, but it’s nowhere near a frenzy either. Whether the rally can attract more post-holiday volume will get tested when trading resumes Monday.
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Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) shares swing as shorts, cash take focus before Denmark project

Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) shares swing as shorts, cash take focus before Denmark project

Plug Power Inc. closed at $2.64 ahead of the U.S. holiday, giving the hydrogen fuel-cell and electrolyzer company a market cap around $3.67 billion. With the Nasdaq and NYSE both closed Friday for the Independence Day holiday, Thursday’s close is still the last available read on PLUG ahead of Monday’s open. Churn was the main signal last week, not direction. Plug moved 209.2 million shares in four sessions, which is about a normal four-day run, but shares gained just 10 cents over the previous Friday. Volume was about 62% of the short interest from the most recent update.
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Verizon (VZ) draws outsized selling as Dow laggard

Verizon (VZ) draws outsized selling as Dow laggard

U.S. stock markets were closed Friday, July 3, for Independence Day. For Verizon Communications Inc., Thursday marked the last cash-market close. The NYSE shows July 3 as the observed 2026 Independence Day holiday. The drop isn’t the only story here. Verizon was dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average after S&P Dow Jones Indices said its low share price meant the stock made up just half a percent of the price-weighted index. Over the next four sessions, Verizon traded 232.1 million shares, sliding 8.6%. That’s a big swing for a stock just called “almost immaterial” to the Dow.
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Apple’s $210B foldable iPhone rally faces Fed, earnings hurdles

Apple’s $210B foldable iPhone rally faces Fed, earnings hurdles

U.S. markets were closed Friday for Independence Day. Apple Inc. wrapped the week with Thursday’s close at $308.63, up 4.84%. Reuters said Nikkei Asia reported Apple has plans for five new iPhone models. For the week, Apple rose 8.76%. That compares with a 2.1% gain in the Nasdaq Composite. The move was less about direction, more about how big it was. Apple’s latest rally tacked on around $210 billion in market cap in a single day. Nikkei Asia, via MacRumors, reported Apple asked suppliers to get ready for 10 million foldable iPhones this year, up from an earlier plan for 7 million to 8 million units. The same story quotes IDC on an average price of $2,500 for the foldable.
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Boeing 747-8F: FAA order points to a tight freighter market, not just inspection costs

Boeing 747-8F: FAA order points to a tight freighter market, not just inspection costs

The U.S. FAA is calling for checks on some Boeing Co 747-8F freighters, asking airlines to look for cracks in fuselage stringers and splice fittings. It’s a limited safety order, but shows how four-engine passenger jumbos are on their way out, even as large nose-loading freighters stay in demand. This directive covers 11 planes registered in the U.S. and flagged by Boeing’s alert bulletin, and kicks in Aug. 6. The direct cash bill is small. FAA estimates put the work at 124 hours for the radius-filler inspection and 244 hours for the cracking check, at $85 per hour. That means $31,280 in inspection costs for each plane, or $344,080 for all 11 U.S. planes.
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UiPath (NYSE:PATH) bounce up against ARR hurdle after short week

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) bounce up against ARR hurdle after short week

UiPath, Inc. kicks off the week with a four-day win streak and shares up 11.2% from the last Friday’s close, though volumes stayed steady. U.S. equity markets closed on Friday, July 3, for the Independence Day holiday, the NYSE calendar says. The stock finished Thursday at $11.71, up 1.4% for the day. It last closed at $10.53 on June 26. Four-day volume between June 29 and July 2 was 239.8 million shares, an average of 59.9 million daily. The week before, volume totaled 298.7 million shares over five days, or 59.7 million a day. Shares climbed, but trading volume held steady.
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) heads into July 22 margin test after big Q2 inventory dip

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) heads into July 22 margin test after big Q2 inventory dip

U.S. markets were closed Friday for the Independence Day break and will stay shut on Sunday. That gives Tesla holders the weekend to digest the stock’s sudden turnaround before Monday’s session. Both the Nasdaq and NYSE were closed on July 3—since July 4 was a Saturday this year in 2026. Tesla finished Thursday at $393.45, dropping 7.5% after its delivery numbers topped analyst estimates by a lot. Shares had climbed earlier—starting at $379.71 on June 26 and ending up 3.6% higher by Thursday’s close, according to Investing.com data.
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Nokia Oyj (HEL:NOKIA) trades up on low volume, trails OMXH25 ahead of Q2 order figures

Nokia Oyj (HEL:NOKIA) trades up on low volume, trails OMXH25 ahead of Q2 order figures

Nasdaq Helsinki is closed for the weekend. The focus isn’t on Friday’s bounce. Traders now want to see if Nokia Oyj can turn that broker-driven rebound into something stronger before second-quarter results hit July 23. Nokia finished Friday at 11.17 euros, up 3.57% after hitting its session high right at the close. Still, shares dropped 1.93% over the week. OMX Helsinki 25 gained 1.57% Friday and 2.03% for the week, putting Nokia 3.96 points behind the benchmark.
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Buffett cash pile faces market warning, Berkshire at $373.5 billion

Buffett cash pile faces market warning, Berkshire at $373.5 billion

OMAHA, Nebraska, July 5, 2026, 10:07 CDT Berkshire Hathaway set the number on Warren Buffett’s latest market caution: $373.5 billion. That’s how much cash and U.S. Treasury bills, less pending T-bill buys, sat in its insurance and other operations as of March 31. That total is $67.8 billion above the book value of equity and fixed-maturity securities in those units.
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  • VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) pulls in $947.7M, TSM out front
    July 6, 2026, 11:51 AM EDT. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) saw $947.7 million in new money this week as its units outstanding climbed 1.4%. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) jumped 5.3%, with Applied Materials (AMAT) up 1% and KLA Corp (KLAC) advancing 1.6%. SMH last traded at $616.14, still shy of its $671.83 high for the past year but well off its $278.55 low. Investors track inflows to ETFs like SMH because new units mean buying of the fund's underlying chip stocks and can push prices around.
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