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Stock Market 12 July 2026

The Biggest Earnings Reports This Week: Banks, TSMC and Netflix Put Wall Street’s Profit Boom on Trial

The Biggest Earnings Reports This Week: Banks, TSMC and Netflix Put Wall Street’s Profit Boom on Trial

The market’s central question is whether the profit surge can broaden beyond artificial-intelligence chips and energy without exposing weaker credit. The evidence points to a cautious yes: analysts expect S&P 500 second-quarter earnings to rise 23.4% from a year earlier, and this week’s bank slate will test loan demand and consumer health. The answer still hinges on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. defending its high-growth, heavy-investment outlook. Guidance — management’s forecast for coming quarters — matters more now than another round of backward-looking beats.
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Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Stock’s 6.7% Yield Is Tempting — But This One Number Decides the Next Move

Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Stock’s 6.7% Yield Is Tempting — But This One Number Decides the Next Move

With U.S. markets shut on Sunday, the key question for Verizon Communications Inc. is whether its 6.72% dividend yield now pays investors enough for the stock’s widening gap with faster-growing peers. For now, only partly. Verizon closed Friday at $42.12; adding the $0.7075 dividend that Friday buyers were no longer entitled to, its shareholder return for the July 6-10 week was about 0.6%. That cushioned a raw 1.0% price fall, but Verizon still trailed AT&T Inc., at about 4.0% including its dividend, T-Mobile US Inc., at 5.7%, and the S&P 500’s 1.2% gain. Investors paid more for growth and competitive confidence than for income alone.
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CPI Data Could Make or Break Wall Street’s Next Rally

CPI Data Could Make or Break Wall Street’s Next Rally

Traders are watching if Tuesday’s June CPI print lets the Fed hold rates steady, but a soft headline probably won’t be enough. Barclays sees headline CPI dropping to 3.8% from 4.2% on lower gas prices, but expects core CPI—excluding food and energy—to rise another 0.26% month over month. Economist Pooja Sriram said core services inflation is in the driver’s seat. That annualizes to roughly 3.2%, still above the Fed’s 2% target. So, cheaper gas alone won’t settle the rate debate.
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USPS Forever Stamp Hits 82 Cents—The Hidden Rate Formula Points to More Hikes

USPS Forever Stamp Hits 82 Cents—The Hidden Rate Formula Points to More Hikes

The U.S. Postal Service raised the price of a Forever stamp to 82 cents from 78 cents on Sunday. The sharper signal for investors sits in the regulator’s math: of the 4.803% First-Class Mail rate authority — the ceiling regulators allowed USPS to use — 2.190 percentage points, or 45.6%, came from falling mail density rather than inflation. Density measures how many pieces are delivered across each delivery point, and weakens when mail shrinks faster than the network.
12 July 2026
Energy Stocks Week Ahead: Can U.S. Refiners Keep Beating the Oil Sector?

Energy Stocks Week Ahead: Can U.S. Refiners Keep Beating the Oil Sector?

Renewed U.S.-Iran attacks around the Strait of Hormuz will dominate Monday’s open, but U.S. refiners look positioned to keep outperforming the broader energy sector. Valero Energy, Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 delivered a simple average gain of 6.0% between the July 2 and July 10 closes, compared with 3.5% for the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund. Yes, refiners can retain that lead—but only while gasoline and diesel prices continue to outrun their crude-oil costs.
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Space Stocks Week Ahead: Can SpaceX’s Nasdaq-100 Entry Reverse the Selloff?

Space Stocks Week Ahead: Can SpaceX’s Nasdaq-100 Entry Reverse the Selloff?

No, not on its own. Space Exploration Technologies’s rapid entry into the Nasdaq-100 has not produced a broad lift for space shares. SpaceX fell 10.3% from July 2 through Friday even though its inclusion was expected to generate about $4.3 billion of passive buying — automatic purchases by funds tracking the index. An equal-weight basket, giving each stock the same influence, of Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile and Planet Labs slid 16.7%. The split suggests validation is concentrating capital in the leader, not widening appetite for smaller space stocks.
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Palantir Loses $29 Billion in Market Value in Three Days as Software Valuation Faces CPI Data

Palantir Loses $29 Billion in Market Value in Three Days as Software Valuation Faces CPI Data

Palantir Technologies Inc. closed Friday at $126.79, down 8.7% from Tuesday’s intraday high of $138.90. The stock is also 1.9% lower than where it finished on July 2 before the holiday. PLTR slid for three sessions in a row, giving up an early-week rally that at one point put shares up 7.4% compared to the level before the break.
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Ends Above Analyst Target; 28,368 Cars May Dictate What Happens Next

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Ends Above Analyst Target; 28,368 Cars May Dictate What Happens Next

U.S. markets stayed shut on Sunday. Tesla finished Friday at $407.76, up 3.6% from the July 2 close before the holiday. Tesla outperformed the Nasdaq Composite by almost two points. Even with the bounce, shares are still 4.1% under where they stood July 1, the day before Tesla posted record Q2 deliveries.
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Microsoft Stock Forecast: Three Target Cuts Slice 10% Off — Yet Still Point to 33% Upside

Microsoft Stock Forecast: Three Target Cuts Slice 10% Off — Yet Still Point to 33% Upside

Microsoft heads into Monday after Argus Research cut its price target on Friday to $510 from $620, the sharpest of three reductions issued last week. Together with cuts from BMO Capital and Wolfe Research, the new targets average $511.67 — about 10% below their prior average, yet still 32.9% above Microsoft’s $385.10 Friday close. All three firms kept positive ratings.
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