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Verizon (NYSE:VZ) drops after Dow removal, BT charges weigh on shares
29 June 2026

Verizon (NYSE:VZ) drops after Dow removal, BT charges weigh on shares

Verizon Communications Inc. dropped sharply Monday. Shares fell $2.99 to $43.55, off 6.4%, even though the cash outlay for its new BT partnership wasn't huge. By comparison, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust gained 1.3%. Verizon lost around $12.6 billion in market value, looking at the day’s share price drop against its current market cap. That loss is about 20 times larger than the $625 million equalisation payment Verizon is paying in the BT deal. It also comes in at about 8-10 times the range of second-quarter items Verizon listed in its 8-K filing Monday.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) moves past analyst target ahead of stock split

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) moves past analyst target ahead of stock split

29 June 2026
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. climbed 6.3% to $745.59 late Monday morning, after starting at $710.50 and touching $754.80. The move, calculated from Friday’s close using the current price and market cap, works out to a roughly $11.5 billion jump in equity value. The trade went through during normal Nasdaq hours. Nasdaq’s standard session is 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. According to the 2026 schedule, the next U.S. stock-market holiday is Friday, July 3, for Independence Day observed.
Ondas Inc. ONDS stock rises as Russell 3000 add meets short-interest test

Ondas Inc. ONDS stock rises as Russell 3000 add meets short-interest test

Ondas Inc. entered Monday with an index bid on one side and a heavy short base on the other. The stock was quoted at $8.01 in premarket trade at 7:02 a.m. EDT, up 18 cents from Friday’s $7.83 close, with 458,640 shares changing hands before the bell. The regular Nasdaq session was still ahead. Nasdaq hours in New York run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT, and Nasdaq’s 2026 holiday calendar lists the next U.S. closure as July 3 for Independence Day, not June 29.
Apple shares hold steady as buyback talk meets AI chip strain

Apple shares hold steady as buyback talk meets AI chip strain

Apple Inc. starts Monday trading facing another hurdle for investors—seeing if its buyback will still help earnings per share as memory costs shift from a supply side problem to one coming out of Washington. Volume tells the story this time. Apple traded at five times its 65-day average turnover on Friday, though the shares had already bounced off a $274.21 low. The stock is still down 4.45% for the week and 7.36% in a month. The recovery hasn’t undone that earlier drop.
AMD stock trades short week over Street average after chip selloff

AMD stock trades short week over Street average after chip selloff

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. kicks off a short U.S. trading week still sitting above the average Wall Street price target. That’s even after a sharp fall on Friday that came with big volume. Trading was closed Sunday in New York. Nasdaq says regular stock hours run 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET on weekdays. Markets are set to be closed on July 3 for the Independence Day holiday.
ACHR stock: Archer Aviation Texas proposal falls short after strong support

ACHR stock: Archer Aviation Texas proposal falls short after strong support

Archer Aviation Inc. comes into the week facing a market hurdle tied to voting, not the planes. The last trade for the stock was Friday’s regular close, with no U.S. equity trading Sunday. Archer gained 1.67% to finish at $4.87, up another 0.81% to $4.9096 in after-hours on 8.62 million shares. MarketWatch data showed the rebound didn’t change much for the short-term setup. Archer stayed near its 52-week low, with short interest stuck close to 20% of the float.
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) yield math back in focus after cancer drug miss, shares recover Friday

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) yield math back in focus after cancer drug miss, shares recover Friday

U.S. cash stock trading was closed Sunday. The New York Stock Exchange posts regular hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, and says its next holiday for 2026 is Independence Day, observed Friday, July 3. Pfizer’s last trade was Friday’s close. Pfizer Inc. finished Friday at $24.29, up 62.5 cents after dipping as low as $23.70 during the day. About 60 million shares changed hands. The stock had dropped for six sessions in a row, ending Thursday at $23.67.
BitMine stock stays below reported crypto holdings after Russell inclusion; ETH drop pressures discount

BitMine stock stays below reported crypto holdings after Russell inclusion; ETH drop pressures discount

U.S. stock markets were closed Sunday in New York. BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. will next trade in the first regular session after FTSE Russell’s June 26 reconstitution took effect after the U.S. market closed. FTSE Russell’s final Russell 3000 additions list shows “BITMINE IMMERSION TECHNO” with ticker BMNR in the technology sector. The clean trade is no longer only an “ETH proxy.” By Friday’s close, BMNR traded below an estimate of its disclosed holdings, despite this weekend’s further drop in ether. That discount is now a fact for investors. It shows the market is pricing in crypto volatility, preferred stock obligations, execution risk and potential capital needs, not awarding a premium to the biggest listed Ethereum treasury.
Opendoor volume surpasses short interest after Russell 3000 addition

Opendoor shares face Russell 3000 test after 4.5x volume spike

NEW YORK, June 28, 2026, 14:04 EDT – Opendoor Technologies is in focus as it enters the Russell 3000, following a trading volume jump of 4.5 times the daily average. U.S. stock markets were closed Sunday, so the latest trading data for Opendoor Technologies Inc. covers last week through Friday and Monday’s open. Nasdaq's regular session runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern, Monday to Friday. The exchange is closed July 3 for Independence Day observed.
IonQ shares slip 15%, but quantum premium holds ahead of short U.S. trading week

IonQ shares slip 15%, but quantum premium holds ahead of short U.S. trading week

IonQ Inc closed Friday at $49.31, falling 2.47%, with 67.76 million shares traded. Volume reached 215% of the 65-day average and topped the 50.49 million shares sold short as of June 15. The stock dropped 15.45% in five sessions but remained up 85.45% over three months. This is notable because the drop did not make IonQ look cheap based on current sales. Shares last traded at a market cap of about $18.3 billion, roughly 69 times the $265 million midpoint of its 2026 revenue forecast, and about 39 times its $470 million in remaining performance obligations.

Micron (NASDAQ:MU) moves pull Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) into focus this week for AI stocks

Micron (NASDAQ:MU) moves pull Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) into focus this week for AI stocks

AI stocks in the U.S. head into the four-day week after last week’s drop facing a tighter focus: who is on the hook for memory bills. The memory crunch that helped Micron Technology is now hitting hardware prices at Apple. For investors, it’s a sharper gauge of whether AI spending still drives profit, or if those costs are now squeezing the rest of tech. Micron posted third-quarter revenue of $41.46 billion and GAAP net income at $28.24 billion. The company put its fourth-quarter revenue outlook at $50.0 billion, give or take $1.0 billion. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said the figures and guide showed the “strategic value of memory in the AI era.”
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) bounce brings heavy Nasdaq volume ahead of Q2 earnings

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) bounce brings heavy Nasdaq volume ahead of Q2 earnings

U.S. stock markets were closed in New York on Sunday. The Nasdaq’s main session is open Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. For 2026, the exchange will shut on Friday, July 3 for Independence Day observed. Netflix posted a strong rebound at the close, but volume was the key move. Shares rose 4.10% Friday to $73.81, coming back from a 52-week low of $70.86 hit Thursday. Still, Netflix dropped around 4.6% for the week, after closing last week at $77.38.
June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 was a landmark month for artificial intelligence, with major advances and unexpected events across generative AI, robotics, healthcare, defense, regulation, and business. From next-generation AI models and robots entering factories to new healthcare AI tools and calls for oversight, the AI landscape saw rapid evolution. Below is a comprehensive news-style report summarizing the month’s key AI updates and surprises. OpenAI signaled a new leap in generative AI with CEO Sam Altman announcing that GPT-5 is on the way. On an official podcast, Altman said GPT-5 is expected to launch in summer 2025 adweek.com. Early testers report it is “materially better” than GPT-4 adweek.com, suggesting a significant upgrade in capability. OpenAI is also exploring new monetization: Altman revealed he’s

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Oracle lags tech rebound as backlog schedule puts spotlight on cash shortage

Oracle lags tech rebound as backlog schedule puts spotlight on cash shortage

Oracle Corporation slipped 0.52% to $147.76 Monday. Shares gave up an early move up tied to AI-infrastructure, finishing weaker while most tech names rose. Stock traded between $145.20 and $154.50. Volume came in at 34.06 million shares, or 126% of its 65-day average, numbers from MarketWatch show. Oracle had climbed 3.5% in premarket trading on Monday after dropping almost 20% last week, its worst week since 2001, MarketWatch reported, citing FactSet. But shares finished lower on the day, even as the S&P 500 added 1.2% and the Nasdaq rose 2.1%.
Coeur Mining outperforms miner ETFs after S&P MidCap 400 news, despite soft silver

Coeur Mining outperforms miner ETFs after S&P MidCap 400 news, despite soft silver

Coeur Mining, Inc. climbed Monday even as most gold and silver stocks slipped, a rare split that lets investors see if CDE is moving more with indices now, not just with metals prices. U.S. stocks traded as usual Monday. The New York Stock Exchange schedule listed June 29 as open, with hours from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT. MarketWatch kept Coeur flat after hours at $16.33 at 6:51 p.m. EDT, following a 31-cent gain in the session. Trading volume reached 35.4 million shares, 119% above its 65-day average.
Bitmine (BMNR) trades below reported Ethereum asset value after Russell 1000 inclusion

Bitmine (BMNR) trades below reported Ethereum asset value after Russell 1000 inclusion

Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. is trading as if the market sees less value in its Ethereum holdings, despite the company's recent entry into the Russell 1000 and reporting almost $10 billion in assets. Shares last changed hands at $13.80, up 24 cents from the previous session, with volume around 36.3 million. The company’s market cap was $6.27 billion, market data show.
Abivax (NASDAQ:ABVX) ADS gain $2.3B after obefazimod safety news; Paris session yet to start

Abivax (NASDAQ:ABVX) ADS gain $2.3B after obefazimod safety news; Paris session yet to start

Abivax S.A. is set for a lagged Paris opening after its U.S. ADS jumped in after-hours trading. Investors reacted to new clinical data on obefazimod, Abivax’s ulcerative colitis drug. The latest news hits late, but the drop earlier this month wasn’t about whether the drug works. It was about the potential cancer risk and what that could mean for the drug’s label. Abivax put out the release at 22:05 CEST, after Euronext Paris had already closed for the day at 17:30 and just past the U.S. market close. Euronext Paris trades from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. local time and, according to its 2026 holiday calendar, June 30 isn’t a holiday.
Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC) stock sinks on Q2 guidance cut as cash flow rises

Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC) stock sinks on Q2 guidance cut as cash flow rises

Concentrix Corporation lost more than a fifth of its market value in after-hours trading on Monday after the customer-experience services company gave a soft outlook, even as its second-quarter cash flow improved. The stock last traded at $19.55, down 22.5%, after closing up 0.9% at $25.23; after-hours volume was 1.07 million shares, MarketWatch data showed. The less noticed line was the revenue mix. Retail, travel and e-commerce passed technology and consumer electronics as Concentrix’s biggest reported vertical in the quarter. Banking, financial services and insurance also rose, while tech and healthcare fell.
SharonAI shares dip on $1.6B deal as float moves before Russell reshuffle

SharonAI shares dip on $1.6B deal as float moves before Russell reshuffle

SharonAI Holdings Inc finished down Monday. The AI cloud firm secured a $1.6 billion private raise, but investors looked past that as the deal terms hint at a much bigger common-equivalent share count before Nvidia-related income starts coming in. The shares dropped 1.28% to close at $81.00 on Nasdaq, with trading between $76.40 and $86.0878, according to WSJ data. Volume reached 1.49 million, more than double the 65-day average of 646,366. After hours, WSJ put the quote at $88.00, up 8.64%, at 6:07 p.m.
Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) gains as Russell growth index inclusion hits R2 ramp milestone

Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) gains as Russell growth index inclusion hits R2 ramp milestone

Rivian Automotive, Inc. jumped 7.55% to finish at $16.81 on Monday after S&P Capital IQ confirmed the EV maker is going into the Russell 3000E Growth Benchmark. The stock closed near where it traded when the R2 SUV started shipping to customers earlier this month. But Monday’s move was more about index flows and a bounce in EV names than just Rivian itself, traders said. The stock moved 38.73 million shares, above its 32.32 million average, about 1.2 times the norm. Volume was strong but didn’t spike for a name up more than 7%. Tesla Inc. rose 8.46% and Lucid Group, Inc. jumped 9.97%, leaving Rivian trailing the main EV beta names.
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) trails S&P 500 as China GLP-1 watch puts yield in focus

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) trails S&P 500 as China GLP-1 watch puts yield in focus

Pfizer Inc. ticked up on Monday, rising after a move in China increased reimbursement for its GLP-1 offering, giving it another inroad into the market. Shares added 0.4% to $24.37 late in New York trading, but trailed a broader rally. The S&P 500 ended up 1.18% at 7,440.43, and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.07%. It’s really about scale for investors. Reuters said sales of GLP-1 drugs on Alibaba and JD.com sites hit around 1.4 billion yuan in Q1, using Jefferies numbers. That would be about $828 million a year through those e-commerce channels. Meanwhile, Pfizer’s annualized dividend payout based on $0.43 per share and 5.731 billion Q1 diluted shares comes to almost $9.9 billion.
JetBlue drone incident at JFK puts risk focus on 3,000-foot airspace

JetBlue drone incident at JFK puts risk focus on 3,000-foot airspace

JetBlue Airways said an Airbus A321 coming in from Las Vegas landed safely at New York's JFK Monday morning after the crew reported hitting a drone on approach. The FAA said it's looking into the incident, which happened around 7:15 a.m. EDT when the plane was about 3,000 feet up. JetBlue pulled the plane out of service to check it over, but said they found no damage or proof of a drone hit. The event shifts a rare safety risk into a capacity problem for airlines operating in New York. Airlines might have to ground a plane for checks even without any actual damage after an incident like this. According to ABC7 New York, this aircraft was cleared for its
Transocean (NYSE:RIG) moves against sector as Valaris spread stays close to 3%

Transocean (NYSE:RIG) moves against sector as Valaris spread stays close to 3%

Transocean Ltd. dropped 1.6% to $5.04 by late Monday. Trading was heavy, with 36.4 million shares traded, putting dollar volume around $184 million. That’s about 3.2% of the company’s market cap and ahead of the same day turnover rates for Noble Corp. Plc, Valaris Ltd., and Seadrill Ltd.. The way RIG trades is getting more attention now, since the stock is both an offshore driller bet and the currency for Transocean’s all-stock deal to buy Valaris. The agreement has Valaris holders set to get 15.235 Transocean shares for every Valaris share. With RIG at Monday’s close, that pegged Valaris at $76.78 a share. Valaris last traded at $74.53.
Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) drops as CEO departure lands during Russell reshuffle

Copart (NASDAQ:CPRT) drops as CEO departure lands during Russell reshuffle

Copart, Inc. dropped 8.02% on Monday, finishing at $28.10 after the company announced CEO Jeff Liaw will leave at the end of July, with former chief Jay Adair coming back to take over. Shares closed just 3 cents off the day’s low, according to market data. The move left Copart trailing the Nasdaq Composite by around 10 points, as the index added 2.04%. Copart lost around $2.4 billion in market value after the latest drop, based on a $27.0 billion market cap and a one-day decline. Trading volume totaled 18.09 million shares, running about 23% higher than Robinhood’s 14.66 million average. Shares hit a 52-week low at $28.08.
Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT) jumps as satellite stocks see spread widen

Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT) jumps as satellite stocks see spread widen

Viasat, Inc. finished Monday up 23.8% at $76.69 after ending last week at $64.23 on June 22 and $61.95 on June 26, according to its historic quote page. Monday’s session was a standard one for the Nasdaq. The exchange shows July 3 as the next U.S. market holiday, not June 29, and lists regular trading hours as 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The data didn’t come from a same-day Viasat release. On Viasat’s investor-relations site, the most recent press release was the June 11 U.S. Space Force award, then earnings from May 28. What hit the screens today was a new sell-side target and news of a sector deal.
Netflix Stock Gets $25 Billion Buyback Boost After Warner Bros Deal Collapse

Netflix shares underperform Nasdaq as NBCUniversal tie-up chatter fails to move premium

Netflix, Inc. lagged the tech rally on Monday. Shares finished at $73.78, off 0.04%. The Nasdaq Composite added 2.1% and the S&P 500 rose 1.2%. The spread came as traders looked to media merger chatter, with buyers chasing likely acquisition targets and betting on cable deals, but skipping over Netflix. This is worth noting as Netflix is acting more like an earnings trade than a name following the index bounce. The Nasdaq moved up 2% but Netflix stayed pinned near its low end for the year.
Rocket Lab-Iridium deal puts cash-flow satellites in focus for space stocks in June 2026

Rocket Lab-Iridium deal puts cash-flow satellites in focus for space stocks in June 2026

Space and satellite stocks faced a tougher test this Monday than the SpaceX-driven rally that kicked off June, as investors started to focus on networks and contracts over just launch schedules. Rocket Lab Corporation said it will buy Iridium Communications Inc. in a deal valued at about $8 billion. The deal brings Rocket Lab access to L-band spectrum, over 2.55 million subscribers and $495 million in 2025 operational EBITDA to fold into its launch and spacecraft operations. Monday’s rally didn’t look like a clean sweep for space stocks. Rocket Lab ended up 15.9% at $98.01. Iridium climbed 25.4% to $54.59. AST SpaceMobile Inc. jumped 21.3% to $86.77. Planet Labs PBC added 15.5% at $31.28. Viasat Inc. closed up 23.8% at
Refiners top oil majors among energy stocks in June 2026 as ETF weight shifts

Refiners top oil majors among energy stocks in June 2026 as ETF weight shifts

Energy stocks in the U.S. finished June mixed, a split that wasn’t obvious on the sector tape. The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund dropped along with oil majors and services, while two big refiners gained. The June 29 session was a regular U.S. trading day; according to the NYSE’s 2026 calendar, Juneteenth is observed June 19, with the next stock-market closure for Independence Day on July 3. The table lists May 29 closing prices and Monday’s latest data, pulled from public market sources. June return figures and estimated XLE impacts come from those prices and State Street’s index weights.
Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) rises after NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI tie-up, but trades at about 39x sales forecast

Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) rises after NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI tie-up, but trades at about 39x sales forecast

Palantir Technologies Inc. gained 2.4% to $115.70 late Monday after partnering with NVIDIA Corporation on an AI engine for U.S. government and critical infrastructure clients. Investors bought in: some $5.1 billion worth of Palantir shares traded, and the $2.74 gain tacked on around $7.0 billion in market cap. That’s close to 92% of Palantir’s 2026 revenue guidance midpoint. Palantir shares held close to the big tech ETF in recent trading. The stock outperformed SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust but stayed in line with Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1. Nvidia posted a smaller gain.
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. That spread is what June has been about. AI names are not moving together now. When a stock looks cheap, it can signal risks like cycles, customer mix or supply. Expensive ones have to show they
Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) stock trails market as quality win meets recall drag

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) stock trails market as quality win meets recall drag

Ford left Monday’s stock rally with a problem for bulls: its best quality score in years still did not move the stock. The shares were last at $14.02, down 0.7%, while U.S. stocks ended sharply higher and the Nasdaq Composite rose 2.04%. The split was not just against tech. General Motors Company fell 1.0%, but Tesla Inc rose 8.5%, the S&P 500 tracker gained 1.7% and the consumer-discretionary ETF rose 2.4%.
Universe Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:UPC) pop puts $10.75M patent deal and float in focus

Universe Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:UPC) pop puts $10.75M patent deal and float in focus

Universe Pharmaceuticals INC shares surged in late Monday trading on a new patent deal, but what stood out for investors was the big share count jump. The China-based specialty pharma said it would issue 4,376,552 Class A shares to Best Praise International. StockAnalysis listed just 651,310 shares outstanding toward session end. The regular Nasdaq session closed at the dateline. The exchange’s regular hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, with after-hours from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nasdaq’s 2026 holiday calendar puts the next U.S. equity market closure on July 3 for Independence Day, not June 29.
Super Micro Taiwan raid wipes $1.4 billion off SMCI on $22 million hardware confiscation

Super Micro Taiwan raid wipes $1.4 billion off SMCI on $22 million hardware confiscation

TAIPEI, June 30, 2026, 04:04 Taiwanese prosecutors are expanding their AI server smuggling investigation beyond three traders to include the hardware supply chain tied to Super Micro Computer Inc. That puts a sharper focus on how much of a risk premium investors should put on a fast-growing AI server name if its gear keeps getting flagged in export-control cases.
Nasdaq bounce hides thin megacap recovery as US stocks end

Nasdaq bounce hides thin megacap recovery as US stocks end

U.S. stocks climbed Monday, but the close didn’t fully back up the day’s upbeat numbers. The Nasdaq led gains, S&P 500 rose over 1%, and the Dow crossed 52,000. Even so, there weren’t many fresh highs and breadth stayed moderate. The move seemed more about big-cap names bouncing than a real broad rally heading into the end of the quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 358.34 points, or 0.69%, ending at 52,234.45, according to Reuters. The S&P 500 finished up 78.74 points, or 1.07%, at 7,432.92. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 464.42 points, or 1.84%, closing at 25,761.96.
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