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NASDAQ:MU 24 June 2026 - 26 June 2026

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.
US stocks mixed, Micron AI memory rally can’t lift Nasdaq

US stocks: Wall Street splits as chips drop but megacap platforms hold indexes

Wall Street stocks held near the flat line late Friday morning, with weaker action out of the gate. Underneath, AI names saw a wide divergence. The S&P 500 slipped 0.03% to 7,355.65, Reuters/LSEG data showed. The Nasdaq Composite lost 0.26% to 25,293.70. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down 0.01% to 51,914.82. All data delayed at least 15 minutes. Semi stocks saw the sharpest drop in the session. The iShares Semiconductor ETF fell 4.67% as of 10:47 a.m. ET. By comparison, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust was off 0.22%. The Invesco QQQ Trust slipped 0.78%. The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust inched up 0.03%. The iShares Russell 2000 ETF lost 0.10%. The chip ETF lagged the S&P 500 tracker by roughly 4.4 percentage points.
Micron shares slip as traders question peak-memory outlook

Micron shares slip as traders question peak-memory outlook

Micron Technology, Inc. fell in premarket trading Friday. Shares pulled back from a record run. The company gave profit guidance, but shares still traded at under 10 times annualized profit for the next quarter. With Investing.com listing a premarket price of $1,151.93 and Micron’s Q4 non-GAAP EPS guidance at $31 midpoint, the stock traded at 9.3 times earnings. The Thursday close of $1,213.56 bumped that multiple to 9.8. That’s still low for a trillion-dollar chip name, unless Q4 ends up being the peak for memory.
US futures edge lower ahead of Russell index reshuffle as chip stocks see selling

US futures edge lower ahead of Russell index reshuffle as chip stocks see selling

U.S. stock index futures slipped Friday, giving up ground as chip names pulled back after Thursday’s Micron-driven rally. Investors are waiting for the close, with Russell index rebalancing expected to force funds to adjust positions, which may provide a clearer read on the session. Stock futures slipped early. At 5:29 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis fell 59 points, or 0.11%. S&P 500 E-minis lost 39.25 points, or 0.53%, and Nasdaq 100 E-minis dropped 343.5 points, or 1.16%, according to Reuters. Micron Technology gave back 4.8% in premarket action after its big jump of more than 15% on Thursday. Intel and Advanced Micro Devices both traded down over 3%, and Nvidia slipped 1.4%.
Oil dip does little for Korea AI stocks stuck with chip cost pressure

Oil dip does little for Korea AI stocks stuck with chip cost pressure

South Korea's AI stocks fell Friday despite some relief in oil prices. Investors faced a split market with lower energy costs but higher memory prices. KOSPI dropped 5.8% after being down as much as 8% earlier, hitting a circuit breaker. Even after Friday’s slide, the index was still up 66% this quarter, the best quarterly gain since 1998. The move shows how far the trade had gone.
Dow Jones today (INDEXDJX:.DJI): blue chips slip below 52,000 on late slide

Dow Jones today (INDEXDJX:.DJI): blue chips slip below 52,000 on late slide

Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up 71.72 points, or 0.14%, on Thursday, finishing at 51,920.62. That was well off its best level of the day, after hitting a 52-week high of 52,655.66. The S&P 500 edged down 0.70 point, less than 0.01%, to 7,357.52. Nasdaq Composite dropped 118.03 points, or 0.46%, ending at 25,358.60. Dow fades after failing to stay above key level, swings 735 points from high to close The fade is in focus after the Dow opened at 52,009.02, hit 52,655.66, but ended below 52,000. Traders were watching to see if the index could hold above that mark after hours. The spread from the session high to close ended up at 735 points.
US stocks mixed, Micron AI memory rally can’t lift Nasdaq

US stocks mixed, Micron AI memory rally can’t lift Nasdaq

Nasdaq slips as AI trade splits chip makers and buyers; SanDisk jumps 22% The Nasdaq Composite ended Thursday down 0.46%, giving up 118.03 points to finish at 25,358.60. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed a 71.72-point gain, or 0.14%, to close at 51,920.62, while the S&P 500 was flat, down just 0.73 point at 7,357.49. Memory-chip stocks ran higher, but the broader tech index still fell as some companies raised prices for hard-to-find AI parts and others paid up. SanDisk Corp soared 22.0%, Micron Technology Inc climbed 15.7%, and Applied Materials Inc rose 13.4%. Apple Inc lost 6.1%, and Dell Technologies Inc dropped 5.8%. AI supply chain spreads, not index closes, told the story today. Micron reported $22 billion in customer commitments for memory-chip supply. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said those “tight conditions” could last past 2027. Ben Barringer at Quilter Cheviot said “continued tightness support pricing” for players up and down the AI chain.
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) pares back as AI push faces $7B dilution hit

Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) pares back as AI push faces $7B dilution hit

Super Micro Computer, Inc. slipped 1.1% to $32.10 Thursday afternoon. Shares opened at $33.34, then traded as high as $33.70 before falling to $31.42. The intraday range was roughly 7% from Wednesday's finish. Market cap was around $22.2 billion. This week’s trade looks tied more to the cost of financing AI than any demand worries. Supermicro has outlined plans for a $7.0 billion equity and equity-linked raise, aiming to fund about $39 billion in advanced AI server orders from more than 20 buyers. The planned raise is roughly a third of Supermicro’s latest market value. The order total is about 1.8 times the company’s market cap.
Micron, Qualcomm move up while Apple, Nvidia slide in mixed AI trade

Micron, Qualcomm move up while Apple, Nvidia slide in mixed AI trade

U.S. cash markets traded Thursday during normal hours on the New York Stock Exchange, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. It wasn’t just AI stocks bouncing. Some investors picked up shares in chipmakers with limited memory supply, dumping others with higher AI expenses or steeper input costs. By late morning, Micron Technology, SanDisk, Western Digital and Seagate Technology had picked up roughly $239 billion in market cap based on last prices and capitalisations. With Qualcomm included, the gain was near $247 billion. Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Oracle had shed around $417 billion using the same method.
Dow ends higher; Nasdaq drifts as AI stocks slip, oil falls

Dow Jones (INDEXDJX:.DJI) spikes 700 points as price-weighted stocks outpace tech slide

Dow jumps more than 700 points as industrials and banks surge, Nasdaq lagsLate Thursday morning, the Dow rallied 763.79 points to 52,612.69 as tracked by MarketWatch/FactSet. The move left the S&P 500 up 29.46 points. But the Nasdaq fell 86.98 points, weighed down by Apple, Microsoft Corp., Nvidia Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.. No clear tech bounce for the tape. MarketWatch figures each $1 move in a Dow component moves the index by 6.16 points. The top five names on the upside—Caterpillar, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, UnitedHealth Group Inc., and American Express Co.—added around 666 points to the Dow. But Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon took off about 184 points.
US stocks now: Broad gains balance $416 billion drop in megacap tech

US stocks now: Broad gains balance $416 billion drop in megacap tech

Stocks edged up in mixed trading Thursday. Dow and small caps caught a bid, but heavy selling hit some of the biggest tech names as the latest AI supply-chain headlines split the market. Fresh news on AI hardware and components turned up new winners and losers, dividing the day’s action. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust traded up 0.3% at 10:47 a.m. ET. Invesco QQQ Trust also added 0.3%. SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust was ahead 1.3%. The iShares Russell 2000 ETF gained 1.1%.
SanDisk rally faces AI memory test after Micron earnings

Sandisk Move Impacts Micron Rally and Nasdaq-100 ETF Math

Sandisk Corporation spiked before the bell Thursday after Micron Technology reported earnings that shook up the memory trade. Index investors saw a clearer move in QQQ: Sandisk isn’t only a storage play with volatile price action anymore. It’s now a Nasdaq-100 stock with enough heft to drive passive flows. Sandisk was quoted at $2,206.75 in delayed premarket, up $292.29, or 15.27%. The stock had finished Wednesday down 2.5% to $1,914.46. At the current price, it's about 6% below the 52-week high of $2,354.39. Volume was 346,620 shares in premarket, lower than Wednesday’s 10.42 million and trailing the 65-day average of 14.43 million.
Nasdaq Futures Drop Ahead of Open as Debt Concerns Hit AI Stocks

Nasdaq futures edge up as AI chip stocks try to recover ahead of PCE data

Stock index futures in the U.S. traded higher ahead of Thursday’s open, though gains were limited. The gap between Nasdaq and Dow stands near two percentage points. AI chip names are drawing demand again, but industrials and small caps are nearly unchanged. Dow gained 0.35% on Wednesday, but the S&P 500 slipped 0.10% and Nasdaq Composite fell 0.43%. It wasn’t a straightforward red day. Reuters said concerns over hyperscaler spending fueled by debt and a hawkish Fed have wiped over $1 trillion off the Nasdaq 100 this week.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) gains ahead of earnings; Street eyes $20.57 EPS bar

Micron headed for $200 billion jump before the bell on AI memory deals

Micron Technology, Inc. traded 16.7% higher at $1,224.01 in premarket action Thursday. If the price sticks, about $198 billion gets added to its equity value based on Google Finance’s count of 1.13 billion shares. That’s nearly double the $100 billion in minimum-price remaining performance obligations linked to strategic customer agreements that were signed or finished after the last quarter. Investors are seeing something different in Micron this quarter. The stock isn't trading just on spot DRAM and NAND prices anymore. Now, the market is putting value on customer-funded supply, price floors, and the chance this memory cycle remains tight.
Micron, Qualcomm lift chip stocks after hours as Nasdaq slips

Micron, Qualcomm lift chip stocks after hours as Nasdaq slips

Micron said it had locked in about $100 billion worth of future customer deals, and Qualcomm laid out a $15 billion data-center sales target by 2029. Both items steered the after-hours session. Nasdaq 100 ETF QQQ pushed almost two points higher than DIA in after-hours action, reversing the session’s move when the Dow edged up and the Nasdaq slipped. Trading stayed tight late, but the bid held up. Post-close, buyers focused on chips, memory, and suppliers instead of lifting the broad tape.
Western Digital falls after AI-storage rally, investors look to Micron

Western Digital falls after AI-storage rally, investors look to Micron

Western Digital Corporation shares dropped Wednesday, giving back some gains from earlier this month. The stock was down roughly 4% in the session after opening close to $658, according to Google Finance. Volume stayed above its recent average. The market is still watching artificial intelligence infrastructure and enterprise storage demand. Western Digital shares slipped less than two weeks after a run that put it near the top of the S&P 500. Analysts had upgraded the stock on bets that supply for hard-disk drives can’t keep up with rising demand as cloud firms roll out more AI data centers.
SanDisk rally faces AI memory test after Micron earnings

SanDisk rally faces AI memory test after Micron earnings

SanDisk closed Wednesday down 2.5% in regular U.S. trade. But after hours, the stock jumped 9.5% to $2,097. That’s a steep move in a name already up 706.5% so far this year and 3,951.8% in twelve months. Cash trading finished before the move; after-hours action is usually thin and volatile. SanDisk stock is in focus after Yahoo Finance called out a possible 720% rally by 2026, but investors are also looking at whether its direct data-center unit can grow fast enough to back up a $291 billion market value.
Dow climbs but S&P 500 and Nasdaq dip after tech weakens

Dow climbs but S&P 500 and Nasdaq dip after tech weakens

Stocks on Wall Street ended the session uneven as tech names slipped late. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tacked on 177.19 points, or 0.34%, to 51,844.03, according to delayed FactSet data shown on MarketWatch. The S&P 500 ended down 9.88 points, or 0.13%, at 7,355.58, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 120.38 points, or 0.47%, to finish at 25,466.66. Stocks traded a normal schedule in the U.S. The NYSE's main hours were 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, with the final auction held at 4 p.m. ET, according to New York Stock Exchange data.
Dow ends higher; Nasdaq drifts as AI stocks slip, oil falls

Dow ends higher; Nasdaq drifts as AI stocks slip, oil falls

Dow climbs 184 points, S&P 500 inches lower, Nasdaq drops The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 184.03 points, or 0.36%, to finish at 51,850.87 on Wednesday. The S&P 500 slipped 6.97 points, or 0.09%, to 7,358.49. The Nasdaq Composite fell 110.40 points, or 0.43%, settling at 25,476.64. The Dow outperformed other indexes with tech shares still under pressure. Because the Dow is price-weighted, stocks with bigger share prices move the average more. S&P Dow Jones Indices calls the Dow a gauge for 30 U.S. blue chips.
Dow Jones (.DJI) Gains as Alphabet Drags on Nasdaq

Dow gains with Home Depot, 3M out front; Alphabet to enter index

Dow moves up Wednesday with Home Depot and 3M leading. Tech selling slowed, and weaker oil prices eased some pressure on U.S. stocks. Dow climbed 302.73 points, or 0.59%, to 51,969.57 at 10:46 a.m. EDT. S&P 500 gained 0.58% and Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.66%. The bounce in tech shares gave some lift to the Dow after a tech-driven selloff the day before.

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  • Johnson Matthey Wins China’s OK for Catalyst Technologies Deal With Honeywell
    July 3, 2026, 7:26 AM EDT. Johnson Matthey PLC said it got the green light from China's State Administration for Market Regulation to sell its Catalyst Technologies unit to Honeywell International Inc. The company said this clears all conditions for the sale, which should wrap up by the end of August 2026. Johnson Matthey is pushing ahead with its divestment as planned. The Honeywell deal follows earlier announcements, with the timeline unchanged. Johnson Matthey said it expects the deal to shift its portfolio in late Q3 2026.
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