US Markets Update: Dow Hits 54,000 as AI Investment Drives Gains in Industrials
U.S. equities reached new highs around midday Tuesday. The Dow surpassed 54,000, driven by robust AI-related earnings that boosted technology and industrial sectors.
VTI’s Nearly 2% Gain Supported by Chip and AI Stocks Beyond AMD
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF gained 2.0%, trading at $381.15 during the afternoon. Advanced Micro Devices advanced 9.0% to $528.32. U.S. markets stayed open with roughly an hour remaining in the standard session.
Palantir Stock Slides as AI Growth Story Meets Governance and UK Contract Scrutiny
Palantir Technologies Inc. shares fell Friday, closing at $127.99, down 2.36%, as investors weighed renewed political and governance pressure against the company’s still-rapid artificial intelligence growth story. The move left PLTR near the lower end of its day’s trading range and extended pressure on a stock that remains richly valued by conventional measures, including a trailing price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E, of about 147; P/E compares a company’s share price with its profit per share.
Palantir CEO Karp takes aim at AI spend by Anthropic, OpenAI
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on CNBC Wednesday criticized frontier AI labs, saying many enterprise clients are privately dissatisfied with those companies. Karp told CNBC’s Sara Eisen that discontent isn’t just limited to everyday users. He said most of the Anthropic projects discussed in public are “running on Palantir.”
Palantir’s $200 Target Meets Doubts on AI Growth
Palantir Technologies stock moved just 0.15% higher to $135.73 in Monday afternoon trades, with little change after a tough stretch last week. The market cap was about $349 billion. Investors kept selling pressure on the shares as they tried to gauge new bullish opinions on the company’s AI software against a valuation that offers little margin for error.
Palantir Stock Dips Despite Google AI News
Palantir Technologies shares slipped Thursday, reversing an earlier gain. The data software company had rallied after news at its AIPCon customer event, where Palantir announced a bigger Google Cloud partnership and multiple new commercial deals.
Palantir’s $374 Billion Question Edges Back Into Focus
Palantir shares dropped roughly 4% after the open in New York on Wednesday, with both bullish and bearish voices out in force as the debate grew over whether the AI software firm’s trajectory justifies its high price tag. The stock changed hands at $145.96 at 9:47 a.m. EDT, putting Palantir’s market cap near $374 billion.
Palantir gains premarket with AI stock catalyst eyed
Palantir Technologies climbed around 3.6% in quiet pre-market trade Monday, pushing its recent rally further as AI-related software names found buyers again. Shares traded at $162.14 as of 7:45 a.m. EDT. Palantir closed up 9.21% Friday at $156.54, after gaining 8.17% Thursday to $143.34.
Palantir Stock Rallies the Most in a Year as Another Test Nears
Palantir Technologies finished Friday at $156.54, gaining 9.2% and logging its best session in over a year. The closing price pushed its market cap close to $402 billion, with a price-to-earnings ratio around 176, according to market data.
Palantir Jumps 9% as AI Software Stocks Face Next Test
Palantir Technologies Inc. shares climbed 9.2% to $156.54 on Friday, as the data-analytics stock rallied with software names and landed back in the AI spotlight. The gain extended a two-day jump, marking its best two-session stretch since April 2025, Dow Jones Market Data told Barron’s.
Palantir Gets AI-Defense Boost, but Rally Faces Hurdle
Palantir Technologies Inc. was quoted at $143.34 late in premarket trade Friday, recovering more than 8% from Thursday’s close as buyers came back into artificial intelligence and defense-focused software stocks ahead of the U.S. session.
Palantir’s AI run faces sticking point on Wall Street
Palantir Technologies shares ticked up on Tuesday, but a series of new investor comments pulled attention to the company’s valuation again. That comes after Palantir’s drop so far this year, which has been notable even in a rough year for software stocks.
Palantir boosts outlook, but AI stock stays under watch
Palantir Technologies stock is starting the week down from where it was before last week, after a strong sales outlook failed to resolve the bulls-versus-bears debate around one of Wall Street’s battleground AI names.
Palantir’s AI Work in Ukraine Draws PLTR Into Human-Rights Firestorm
Palantir Technologies Inc. came under renewed scrutiny from investors on Friday. A shareholder filing, which included signatories controlling no less than $336.1 billion in assets under management or advisement, threw its weight behind calls for an independent human-rights review of Palantir’s software. The move arrived as fresh focus fell on the company’s battlefield artificial intelligence tools in Ukraine, where its models are being used to process data and drive automated decision-making.
Top AI Stocks To Watch Today: Nvidia, Microsoft, Broadcom, AMD, Palantir And Cerebras Face A Yield Test
Friday’s open looked shaky for U.S. artificial intelligence shares, with higher Treasury yields and climbing oil prices threatening to derail the AI-driven surge that just sent Wall Street to fresh records. Nvidia, Microsoft, Broadcom, AMD, Palantir, and Cerebras—just public—are all in focus, but the market mood is notably harsher than on Thursday.
Rackspace Stock Jumps 26% As AMD AI Deal Tests RXT Turnaround Story
Rackspace Technology Inc. surged 26.34% to end Thursday at $7.29, marking another big run as the San Antonio cloud-services player draws buyers with its artificial intelligence infrastructure narrative. Shares peaked at $7.65 before settling to $7.15 in late trading.
Palantir Stock Just Sank After a Blowout Quarter. Wall Street Is Finding the One Thing It Didn’t Like
Palantir Technologies shares dropped 1.4% to $134.04 late Wednesday morning, deepening a selloff that’s followed its recent earnings release. That’s even with the data analytics and AI software firm delivering its strongest revenue growth yet as a public company and upping its full-year forecast. The stock finished Tuesday at $135.91.
Palantir Stock (PLTR) Drops After Record Q1: Wall Street Is Stuck on One Number
Palantir Technologies shares slumped 6.9% to $135.91 on Tuesday, as Wall Street punished the stock in spite of record first-quarter revenue, stronger profit, and a bumped-up 2026 forecast. Investors zeroed in on valuation concerns and a U.S. commercial sales number that missed the mark. The stock was still under pressure headed into Wednesday's U.S. premarket.
Palantir Technologies Stock Just Got an AI Forecast Boost. Why Investors Still Paused
Palantir Technologies bumped up its 2026 revenue outlook following an 85% surge in first-quarter sales, as US demand for its AI software keeps climbing. Shares showed just a slight premarket gain, last trading at $146.03—about 1.4% above Monday’s close.
Dow Drops 557 Points as Oil Shock Hits US Stocks; Palantir Slides After Hours
Wall Street ended Monday in the red, with a renewed oil shock linked to the Strait of Hormuz knocking the S&P 500 off its record and pushing the Dow down by more than 550 points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.13% to 48,941.90, according to LSEG. The S&P 500 retreated 0.41% to 7,200.75, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.19% to 25,067.80.
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