Dow Drops Almost 580 Points After Oil Spike

Wall Street closed in the red on Wednesday. Fresh U.S.-Iran worries pushed oil prices up, hitting cyclical stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 579.50 points, or 1.09%, to 52,345.65. The S&P 500 was down 0.40% at 7,473.71. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.16% to 25,778.55 and the Russell 2000 dropped 1.02%.

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Sam’s Club comes out ahead of Costco (NASDAQ:COST) on chicken; Walmart (NASDAQ:WMT) gains in traffic

Sam’s Club comes out ahead of Costco (NASDAQ:COST) on chicken; Walmart (NASDAQ:WMT) gains in traffic

Sam’s Club, owned by Walmart, ranked first in a Consumer Reports test of rotisserie chickens, beating out Costco Wholesale. The test looked at products from 10 grocery chains, grading taste, sodium, and packaging. Sam’s Club took the top spot, followed by Costco and Stop & Shop, part of Ahold Delhaize. “Flavor and freshness” and “genuine value” for members are the focus, Sam’s Club divisional meat and seafood manager Shana DeSmit said to USA Today.
3 July 2026
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OpenAI proposal could hand $42.6 billion in AI equity to U.S. government

OpenAI proposal could hand $42.6 billion in AI equity to U.S. government

OpenAI has reportedly offered the U.S. government a 5% stake, which at the company’s latest $852 billion valuation would value the holding at $42.6 billion. That potential piece would be bigger than most recent direct government stakes in U.S. companies and could be key for IPO buyers to watch. OpenAI in March said it closed $122 billion in committed capital.
3 July 2026
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Amazon shares inch higher as investors watch AWS AI bets

Amazon shares inch higher as investors watch AWS AI bets

Amazon.com Inc ticked higher late Thursday while the Nasdaq slipped. The move was modest but gave investors a clearer signal than the overall index performance. Traders looked at AWS’s newest AI-services pitch as a shot at turning big AI outlays into actual customer sales, instead of just higher data center costs. Shares last traded at $242.67, up 82 cents, or 0.34%, with 47.2 million shares changing hands. Market cap is around $2.64 trillion.
2 July 2026
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USPS confirms July 4 shutdown, parcel investors brace for split in mail, markets

USPS confirms July 4 shutdown, parcel investors brace for split in mail, markets

Saturday’s Independence Day has led to an unusual schedule for shippers and markets in the U.S. The mail is still running Friday, but cash equity markets aren’t. For United Parcel Service and FedEx investors, this is more than a simple holiday statement. The worry is about just how much low-cost parcel volume now relies on USPS rates and last-mile work.
2 July 2026
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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) surge values AI cloud bet at $128 billion

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) surge values AI cloud bet at $128 billion

Meta Platforms jumped 8.8% in early New York premarket Thursday after a Reuters item said Bloomberg News reported Meta is planning to offer extra AI compute power through a new cloud business. The Nasdaq opens for its normal session at 9:30 a.m. EDT. With markets closed Friday for the Independence Day holiday, Thursday is the last U.S. cash trading day before the long weekend.
2 July 2026
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Amazon (AMZN) stock gains with AWS’s $1B AI engineer plan testing AI capex returns

Amazon (AMZN) stock gains with AWS’s $1B AI engineer plan testing AI capex returns

Amazon.com, Inc. traded at $241.70 late Wednesday in after-hours, up 1.4% from Tuesday’s close. The Invesco QQQ Trust lost 1.5% and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust edged down 0.1%. The quote was posted after the regular Nasdaq session, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern. After-hours continues until 8 p.m. The Nasdaq is set to close on Friday, July 3, for Independence Day.
2 July 2026
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Nasdaq edges up after-hours as more stocks join in, AI seen facing tighter price scrutiny

Nasdaq edges up after-hours as more stocks join in, AI seen facing tighter price scrutiny

U.S. stocks closed up Tuesday, with the Nasdaq out front as buying broadened out beyond just AI leaders. That shift in breadth drew attention after the close. Fund managers looked for any sign the second-half rally could keep going with lofty valuations and a Fed still leaning hawkish.
30 June 2026
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Amazon gains $80 billion as AWS GPU prices top Prime Day sales

Amazon gains $80 billion as AWS GPU prices top Prime Day sales

Amazon.com, Inc. heads into Tuesday’s New York pre-market with shares gaining about $80 billion in equity value on Monday. This comes as its Prime Day sales event generated $26.4 billion in U.S. online retail spend. Nasdaq’s regular session was still closed at press time. Pre-market runs 4:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET, with regular trading 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. There’s no June 30 closure on Nasdaq’s 2026 holiday list.
30 June 2026
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US stocks edge lower after hours as ETF tape slows following Dow record, Nasdaq rise

US stocks edge lower after hours as ETF tape slows following Dow record, Nasdaq rise

U.S. stock-index ETFs edged lower in late trading Monday, pulling back after a session where the Dow finished at a record and the Nasdaq jumped over 2%. Regular session gains leaned on tech, index reshuffling, and quarter-end flows, but after-hours moves showed little follow-through.
30 June 2026
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AI shares June 2026: memory and power plays go different ways

AI shares June 2026: memory and power plays go different ways

U.S. AI stocks closed out June showing a more defined split than earlier in the month. On one side were suppliers with signed AI orders. On the other, big spenders and software names trading at high multiples. NVIDIA, Broadcom, Micron Technology and Vertiv gave investors new operating numbers tied to their AI business. Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon.com and Meta Platforms remained key to demand, but the market focus moved in June to how the spending gets funded and what kind of payback investors can expect.
29 June 2026
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Chicago Fed National Activity Index

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PDD Holdings earnings

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