Today: 15 May 2026

US Stock Market Today: Wall Street Stalls as Oil Shock Puts Big Tech Rally on the Line

US Stock Market Today: Wall Street Stalls as Oil Shock Puts Big Tech Rally on the Line

The S&P 500 was little changed Monday, while the Dow and Nasdaq slipped after recent record highs. Brent crude rose about 3% to $108.46 a barrel as U.S.-Iran talks stalled and Strait of Hormuz shipments stayed limited. Microsoft shares dipped after OpenAI ended its exclusive AI access, while Nvidia gained, reclaiming a $5 trillion market value. Major tech earnings and a Federal Reserve meeting are due this week.
27 April 2026
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Wren Kitchens Collapse: Customers Chase Refunds As U.S. Arm Files Chapter 7

Wren Kitchens Collapse: Customers Chase Refunds As U.S. Arm Files Chapter 7

Wren Kitchens’ U.S. parent filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware after abruptly closing all U.S. showrooms and in-store studios, leaving customers with unfinished kitchen orders and employees without notice. The April 24 petition listed assets and liabilities of $100 million to $500 million. Connecticut’s consumer protection agency is investigating. Home Depot said it had no advance warning of the closures.
27 April 2026
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Schwab’s SCHD Dividend ETF Is Near $31 — Why Investors Are Choosing It Over VOO Now

Schwab’s SCHD Dividend ETF Is Near $31 — Why Investors Are Choosing It Over VOO Now

Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) held $88.3 billion in net assets as of April 24, with a 3.34% 30-day SEC yield and 0.060% expense ratio. Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (VOO) offered a lower 1.16% yield and 0.03% expense ratio. SCHD’s top holdings included Texas Instruments, UnitedHealth, and Chevron. SCHD traded near its 52-week high above $31 on Monday.
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Rocket Lab Stock Slips as SpaceX IPO Hype Meets a Hard Earnings Test

Rocket Lab Stock Slips as SpaceX IPO Hype Meets a Hard Earnings Test

Rocket Lab shares fell 2.3% to $77.83 Monday, extending recent volatility as investors await first-quarter results due May 7. A technical note flagged weak near-term sentiment despite strong annual revenue growth and a $1.85 billion backlog. SpaceX’s planned IPO has increased scrutiny of space-sector valuations. Rocket Lab completed its second dedicated launch for JAXA on April 23.
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RTX Stock Just Got Downgraded After an 11% Slide. The Earnings Beat Wasn’t Enough

RTX Stock Just Got Downgraded After an 11% Slide. The Earnings Beat Wasn’t Enough

RTX traded near $174 Monday after Erste Group downgraded the stock to “hold” from “buy,” following an 11% drop over five sessions despite strong quarterly results and a raised 2026 outlook. The company reported Q1 sales of $22.1 billion, up 9%, and adjusted EPS of $1.78, up 21%. Tariff costs and valuation concerns continued to weigh on shares. RTX’s market value stands near $235 billion.
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Bill Ackman’s Uber Bet Just Got a $10 Billion Robotaxi Test

Bill Ackman’s Uber Bet Just Got a $10 Billion Robotaxi Test

Uber shares rose about 2% Monday, trading near $76.17, after renewed focus on Bill Ackman’s stake and autonomous vehicle plans. Uber and Lucid agreed to buy at least 25,000 Lucid vehicles for robotaxi use, raising Uber’s total Lucid commitment to 35,000 units. An Uber subsidiary will purchase $200 million in Lucid stock. Competition from Waymo, Tesla, and Chinese rivals is intensifying.
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Microsoft’s $357 Billion Question: Can Azure Prove AI Spending Is Paying Off?

Microsoft’s $357 Billion Question: Can Azure Prove AI Spending Is Paying Off?

Microsoft will report fiscal Q3 results Wednesday, with focus on Azure growth and AI spending after a $357 billion market value loss last quarter. A new Microsoft-OpenAI deal announced Monday makes Microsoft’s OpenAI license non-exclusive and changes revenue-sharing terms. Analysts expect revenue near $81.4 billion. Microsoft guided for Azure and other cloud services growth of 37% to 38%, down from 39% last quarter.
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S&P 500’s April Rally Has One Big Catch as Big Tech Earnings Loom

S&P 500’s April Rally Has One Big Catch as Big Tech Earnings Loom

The S&P 500 slipped 0.17% to 7,153.03 late Monday morning as U.S. stocks retreated from record highs ahead of major tech earnings and a Federal Reserve decision. Brent crude rose 2.1% to $107.49 a barrel amid stalled U.S.-Iran talks and shipping disruptions. Nearly half the S&P 500’s market value is set to report earnings this week, including Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon.
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VTI’s Tiny Drop Is Hiding a Bigger Test for U.S. Stocks

VTI’s Tiny Drop Is Hiding a Bigger Test for U.S. Stocks

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF edged up 12 cents to $352.17 after an early dip Monday, as investors weighed upcoming mega-cap tech earnings against oil-market risks tied to Iran. The fund remains up 0.59% over the past five days. Oil forecasts rose after Middle East supply concerns, with Goldman Sachs now seeing Brent at $90 a barrel in the fourth quarter. Peer equity ETFs traded mixed in early action.
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Nasdaq Pullback Deepens As AI Rally Runs Into Big Tech Earnings, Fed Decision And Oil Shock

Nasdaq Pullback Deepens As AI Rally Runs Into Big Tech Earnings, Fed Decision And Oil Shock

The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.4% to 24,738.40 Monday after hitting a record, as investors braced for major Big Tech earnings and tracked new OpenAI-linked AI deals. Brent crude jumped 2.44% to $107.90 following stalled U.S.-Iran talks. Microsoft shares dipped after OpenAI ended its exclusive cloud partnership. Qualcomm rose on reports of OpenAI smartphone chip plans.
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Boeing Stock’s Next Big Test: Q1 Beat, Cash Burn And A 737 Ramp Investors Can’t Ignore

Boeing Stock’s Next Big Test: Q1 Beat, Cash Burn And A 737 Ramp Investors Can’t Ignore

Boeing narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $7 million from $31 million a year earlier and reported $22.2 billion in revenue, up 14%. The company delivered 143 commercial jets, outpacing Airbus for the quarter, but used $1.5 billion in free cash flow. Boeing’s backlog hit a record $695 billion. Shares traded near $231.54 early Monday in New York.
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Walmart Stock Gets a Fresh Jolt as China Growth and One-Hour Delivery Put Amazon, Costco on Notice

Walmart Stock Gets a Fresh Jolt as China Growth and One-Hour Delivery Put Amazon, Costco on Notice

Walmart shares hovered near $129 Monday, keeping its market value above $1 trillion as investors watched growth in China and new Sam’s Club delivery options. Sam’s Club fulfilled nearly 65,000 one-hour Express orders since April 2 across 600 clubs. Walmart China’s Q4 net sales rose 19.3% to $6.1 billion, with e-commerce accounting for over half. New Sam’s Clubs opened in Jiangsu, with more set for Shandong and Liaoning.
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Alphabet Stock Faces $185 Billion AI Test as Earnings Put Google Cloud in Focus

Alphabet Stock Faces $185 Billion AI Test as Earnings Put Google Cloud in Focus

Alphabet will report first-quarter results after markets close Wednesday, with options pricing suggesting a possible 5% stock move by week’s end. Visible Alpha estimates revenue at $106.97 billion, up 19% from a year ago, and earnings per share at $2.73, down 3 cents. Investors are watching if heavy AI and data-center spending is driving growth in Google Cloud and Search.
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Geely’s 6.5 Million-Car Plan Puts China’s BYD Rivalry On A Global Fast Track

Geely’s 6.5 Million-Car Plan Puts China’s BYD Rivalry On A Global Fast Track

Geely sold 709,358 vehicles in Q1 2026, its highest ever for the period, with exports up 126% to 203,024 units. China’s EV exports reached $21 billion in Q1, up from $12 billion a year earlier, after the Iran war disrupted oil flows. Geely aims to sell over 6.5 million vehicles annually by 2030, with three-quarters as new energy vehicles. BYD’s domestic sales have fallen for seven months as rivals gain ground.
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Applied Digital Stock Gets a $7.5 Billion AI Lease. Now Comes the Build-Out Test

Applied Digital Stock Gets a $7.5 Billion AI Lease. Now Comes the Build-Out Test

Applied Digital Corp. signed a $7.5 billion, 15-year lease with an unnamed U.S. hyperscaler for 300 megawatts at its Delta Forge 1 campus, pushing total contracted lease revenue above $23 billion. The campus is set to begin operations in mid-2027. Shares rose over 12% after the announcement. The company ended its fiscal third quarter with $2.1 billion in cash and $2.7 billion in debt.
27 April 2026
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SpaceX IPO Nears: Starship, Starlink and Musk’s $75 Billion Bet Face Wall Street’s First Real Test

SpaceX IPO Nears: Starship, Starlink and Musk’s $75 Billion Bet Face Wall Street’s First Real Test

HawkEye 360 said Monday it is seeking a U.S. IPO valuation of up to $2.42 billion, following SpaceX’s confidential filing earlier this month. SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation with less than 5% of shares to float publicly. The company hosted a three-day analyst event last week as details began to emerge. Starlink and Starship are expected to drive investor interest.
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SoundHound AI Stock Faces A $500 Million LivePerson Test As Wedbush Stays Bullish

SoundHound AI Stock Faces A $500 Million LivePerson Test As Wedbush Stays Bullish

SoundHound AI shares fell 1.4% to $8.08 in early Nasdaq trading Monday after announcing an all-stock deal to buy LivePerson for about $43 million in equity value. The acquisition, expected to close in the second half of 2026, would combine SoundHound’s voice AI with LivePerson’s messaging platform, pending regulatory approval.
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Verizon Stock Jumps After Subscriber Surprise: Why Q1 Earnings Changed the 2026 Story

Verizon Stock Jumps After Subscriber Surprise: Why Q1 Earnings Changed the 2026 Story

Verizon shares rose 3% after the company reported a surprise gain of 55,000 postpaid phone customers in Q1, beating analyst expectations of a loss. Adjusted EPS climbed 7.6% to $1.28, and revenue rose 2.9% to $34.4 billion. Verizon raised its 2026 profit outlook but missed Wall Street revenue estimates. Customer credits from a January outage reduced wireless service revenue growth.
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  • Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) Valuation Review After 15.7% Share Price Rebound
    May 15, 2026, 9:55 AM EDT. Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) shares rose 15.7% over the past month, reversing some earlier losses with a 19.6% drop year-to-date. Despite a strong 1-year total shareholder return of 47.1%, the stock trades marginally above its $10.67 fair value estimate at $10.93, suggesting a 3% overvaluation. The valuation contrast is notable with a P/S ratio of 0.3x, well below the metals and mining sector average of 2.5x, highlighting diverse market views. Key drivers include asset sales aiding debt reduction and margin improvement, while risks remain from potential US steel tariff rollbacks and operational challenges versus competitors. Investors face mixed signals and should weigh rewards against risks carefully.

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