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28 June 2026

MSFT rally set for Russell reshuffle as AI spending jitters hang over stock

Microsoft (MSFT) surged 5.71% to $372.97 on record volume as FTSE Russell index changes moved the stock into both growth and value indexes, driving a “really massive trade” and “key liquidity day”; investors now face uncertainty over real demand versus index flows, with capex and AI spending weighing on future profitability.

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) trades after Prime Day jump, AWS in focus as basket sizes shrink

28 June 2026

Amazon closed Friday at $232.69, up 2.5% on massive volume, but still down 4.8% from June 18; Prime Day U.S. sales jumped 9.3% to $26.4 billion as average order size fell 10.6%, while AWS will raise AI compute prices by about 20% in July, spotlighting investor focus on whether higher AWS pricing can offset soaring AI infrastructure costs.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) faces Gemini shortage as Chrome training draws crowds

Chrome’s 70.25% global browser share cements its role as Alphabet’s key gateway

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) edges lower, pulling back from $700 billion mark

Intel shares plunged 9.3% from Monday’s 52-week high, erasing $66 billion in

American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) pushes higher on fuel price moves ahead of July data

American Airlines surged 11.8% last week to $17.87, just below its $18.04

Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG) closes week close to 52-week low, as nuclear renewal initiative continues

Constellation Energy (CEG) shares plunged 4.2% last week, erasing $4.1 billion in

Altria Group (NYSE:MO) shares climb, pressuring yield spread as FDA rule draws talk on volumes

Altria surged 6.8% last week to $73.79, just 1% below its 52-week high, adding $7.8 billion in equity value even as the S&P 500 fell 2.05%; investors face a fresh regulatory risk/reward calculus after the FDA proposed new rules for foreign tobacco makers, while heavy trading volume was driven in part by the Russell index reset.

27 June 2026

Breaking·NYSE:MO·Stock Market

Disney Stock Holds Near $100 With Summer Trade in Focus

Disney (NYSE:DIS) slumps $9 billion with Toy Story 5 close to $400 million

Disney shed $8.9 billion in equity value since June 18 despite “Toy Story 5” hitting $398.8 million worldwide, as heavy trading and weak theme-park attendance weighed on shares; the stock closed Friday at $98.79, up 0.75% for the day but down 3.57% over five days, with its 75-cent dividend going ex-dividend June 30.

27 June 2026

Breaking·Disney News·NYSE:DIS·Stock Market

Fifth Third’s Social Security card change puts $3.6 billion Direct Express deposit base in play

Fifth Third Bancorp (NYSE:FITB) is absorbing millions of Direct Express cardholders and $3.6 billion in noninterest-bearing deposits as Social Security ends paper checks, giving FITB a major low-cost funding boost—but execution risks loom as the bank integrates Comerica’s former program and manages potential fraud and service challenges.

27 June 2026

Breaking·Financial Technology·NYSE:CMA·NYSE:FITB·NYSE:GPN·NYSE:MA

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) gains $8.7 billion as cyber growth bucks Nasdaq drop

Palo Alto Networks surged 3.7% to $304.20, adding $8.7 billion in equity value Friday—outpacing combined gains in CrowdStrike, Fortinet, and Zscaler—after announcing a Project Lightwell partnership with IBM, as analysts reiterated price targets above current levels and the Nasdaq fell 4.6% for the week.

27 June 2026

Breaking·Cybersecurity·Nasdaq·NASDAQ:PANW·Stock Market

AbbVie grabs Apogee in $10.9 billion deal as buyouts speed up

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) jumps $18 billion Friday, beats Apogee as Skyrizi FDA decision comes Monday

AbbVie soared 4.2% to a 52-week high Friday, adding $18 billion in equity value—surpassing the $10.9 billion cash price for its Apogee buyout—even though the deal won’t boost adjusted EPS until 2032; FDA approval for expanded pediatric Skyrizi use came after the close, setting up Monday’s trading for a fresh catalyst.

27 June 2026

Breaking·NASDAQ:APGE·NYSE:ABBV·Stock Market

Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV) sees stock lift after CEO surprise

Breaking·NASDAQ:FISV·Stock Market

27 June 2026

Fiserv jumped 4.8% for the week, defying market declines after insider buys clustered around $49–$51 and a CEO change; heavy Friday trading set the $49–$50 level as a key test for investor confidence in the shortened trading week, with the stock closing at $49.45—just below the insiders’ average purchase price.

SK hynix (KRX:000660) plunge erases value equal to four pending ADR offerings in a single session

SK hynix plunged 8.36% Friday, wiping out 173.9 trillion won in equity value—almost four times its planned 45.45 trillion won Nasdaq ADR issue—amid a KOSPI rout that triggered circuit breakers for the second time in a week, with extreme volatility and retail buying setting up a high-stakes Monday open.

27 June 2026

Breaking·KRX:000660·Stock Market·Technology

ImmunityBio (NASDAQ:IBRX) trades after post-Russell spike with 46% more volume

ImmunityBio surged 11.8% to $8.71 on Friday with volume tripling its average, as Russell index reconstitution took effect; Monday’s trading will reveal if demand persists or if the spike was driven by index flows, with no imminent company events and recent insider selling accounting for just 0.06% of Friday’s volume.

27 June 2026

Breaking·NASDAQ:IBRX·Stock Market

Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) price targets draw attention as shares rally into short holiday week

Moderna soared 12.6% Friday on heavy volume after unveiling new in vivo CAR-T pipeline plans, closing at $67.27—52% above the mean analyst target but still 14.5% below Piper Sandler’s new $77 target. The rally followed Science Day updates, even as analysts note the main new asset is preclinical and cash burn continues, with $7.5B cash at March-end and a projected $3B R&D spend for 2026.

27 June 2026

Biotechnology·Breaking·NASDAQ:MRNA·Stock Market

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) index float faces $8 billion market test as IPO drops

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) will join the Nasdaq-100 on July 7, forcing over $8.3 billion in passive index fund buying—equal to 44% of Friday’s turnover—against a $100 billion trading pool, as the stock trades at 107 times 2025 sales and sits 32% below its June 16 high.

27 June 2026

Breaking·NASDAQ:SPCX·Stock Market

IPO calendar eyes Bending Spoons as shortened week thins deal pipeline

Breaking·NASDAQ:BSP·NASDAQ:DSC·NASDAQ:ITG·NASDAQ:LIME·NASDAQ:MOT·NASDAQ:MU·NYSE:CUX·NYSE:DPC·NYSE:SIND·Stock Market

27 June 2026

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) drives 61% of next week’s $2.56 billion U.S. IPO proceeds, making its $1.57 billion raise a key test for investor appetite in debt-heavy software M&A, with a $18.1 billion valuation and 4.0x net debt to EBITDA leverage, as markets brace for a holiday-shortened week and a looming $29.4 billion SK hynix Nasdaq ADR.

Ondas (NASDAQ:ONDS) shares up as Russell inclusion coincides with resale filing

Breaking·Nasdaq·NASDAQ:ONDS·Stock Market

26 June 2026

Ondas shares jumped to $7.89 as the company joined the Russell 3000 index and filed to register 3.38 million acquisition-linked shares for resale, a move that adds saleable stock to the market but is limited by daily volume caps; the stock is up 21.5 cents on heavy volume, with index reconstitution and share flow in focus.

AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Breaking·NASDAQ:AMZN·NASDAQ:BABA·NASDAQ:CRM·NASDAQ:GOOGL·NASDAQ:META·NYSE:ABB·Technology

28 June 2025

Meta hired OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal and bought a 49% stake in Scale AI, valued at nearly $15 billion, while securing 1.1 GW of nuclear power for future AI data centers. Amazon’s stock nearly doubled in three years as AWS holds about 30% of the global cloud market. U.S. Judge Alsup ruled AI training on copyrighted books can be fair use, but Anthropic faces trial in December over alleged use of pirate copies.

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

Breaking·Innovation·NASDAQ:GOOGL·NASDAQ:META·NASDAQ:NVDA·Technology·TWSE:2317

28 June 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-5 will launch in summer 2025, claiming major improvements over GPT-4. Midjourney released its first text-to-video system, Model V1, in June 2025. Meta delayed LLaMA 4 Behemoth to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, running vision-language-action AI entirely on robots.

Micron (NASDAQ:MU) looks to big memory contracts as stock moves into new week

Micron plunged 6.69% to $1,132.33 after a record week, as investors weigh whether $100 billion in contracted minimum revenue—just 7.7% of its $1.28 trillion market cap—can support its low 9.1x earnings multiple amid surging memory prices and sector volatility.

NASDAQ:MU·Semiconductors·Stock Market·Technology

28 Jun

Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) sees 81 million shares trade in Friday index shuffle

Newell Brands shares surged 18.3% since June 18 despite closing Friday down 1.19% at $5.82, with a staggering 81.3 million shares traded—about 19% of its share count—on the day before Russell index reconstitution takes effect, raising questions about whether gains can hold as index-driven volume fades.

Nasdaq·NASDAQ:NWL·Stock Market

28 Jun

TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) short interest, volume in focus as AI rally gets tested

TeraWulf plunged 10.9% to $25.83 this week—sharply underperforming the Nasdaq—after hitting a 52-week high Monday, as Friday’s Russell index reconstitution drove volume to 66.3 million shares, but failed to clear the heavy 108.65 million share short interest, leaving WULF exposed to further volatility as investors weigh the long-term payoff of its Kentucky data-center expansion.

NASDAQ:WULF·Stock Market

28 Jun

MSFT rally set for Russell reshuffle as AI spending jitters hang over stock

Breaking·Microsoft·NASDAQ:MSFT·Stock Market

28 Jun

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) rebound may stall as Russell rebalancing hits shorted shares

UiPath surged 6.04% to $10.53 on record volume as Russell index rebalancing triggered massive trading; short interest remains high at 32.23% of float, and the company has been buying back shares near current levels, with no upcoming investor events announced.

NYSE:PATH·Stock Market

28 Jun

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) trades after Prime Day jump, AWS in focus as basket sizes shrink

Amazon·Breaking·E-Commerce·NASDAQ:AMZN·Stock Market

28 Jun

Ripple MiCA Approval Moves RLUSD, XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) Not Focus, in Europe Payments Push

Ripple’s preliminary Luxembourg crypto license could open regulated EU payments, but XRP traded near $1.05—still 71% below its 2025 high—as investors await proof that RLUSD stablecoin flows drive real demand on the XRP Ledger, not just Ripple’s private platform; RLUSD supply fell 9% in 30 days while XRPL stablecoin value rose 20%.

Cryptocurrency·Stablecoins

28 Jun

Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) stock heads into June 30 cash deadline after shares fall five days

Plug Power (PLUG) fell 1.17% to $2.54 Friday, capping a five-day, 10.9% slide as volume jumped above average, with investors eyeing a June 30 deadline to close a $132.5M–$142M asset sale to Stream Data Centers—a key liquidity event equal to up to 64% of unrestricted cash and nearly all Q1 operating cash use—amid a shortened trading week before the July 3 market holiday.

NASDAQ:PLUG·Renewable Energy·Stock Market

28 Jun

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) faces Gemini shortage as Chrome training draws crowds

Chrome’s 70.25% global browser share cements its role as Alphabet’s key gateway for AI features and ad revenue, with Q1 Search & other ads delivering $60.4 billion—about 55% of total revenue—while Google faces supply limits for Gemini AI and ongoing antitrust risks; shares last quoted at $337.39, down 2.0%.

Artificial Intelligence·Breaking·NASDAQ:GOOGL·Stock Market·Technology

28 Jun

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) edges lower, pulling back from $700 billion mark

Intel shares plunged 9.3% from Monday’s 52-week high, erasing $66 billion in market value and falling back below the $700 billion threshold as chip stocks tumbled on AI spending worries, with trading volume far outpacing short interest and sector profitability questions intensifying.

Artificial Intelligence·Breaking·NASDAQ:INTC·Semiconductors·Stock Market·Technology

28 Jun

SoFi shares hit resistance near CEO buy mark as Nasdaq pulls back ahead of short week

SoFi closed Friday at $17.88, up 3.35% on volume 30% above average, but still about 1% below CEO Anthony Noto’s recent $18.06 share purchase; the week ahead brings Russell index changes, quarter-end trading, and payrolls data, with the $18 level in focus before a shortened holiday week.

Nasdaq·NASDAQ:SOFI·Stock Market

28 Jun

Ondas (NASDAQ:ONDS) drops 15% in volatile week after resale filing

Ondas Inc. (NASDAQ:ONDS) plunged 15.5% last week to $7.83 despite joining the Russell 3000 Index and announcing $40M+ in new defense orders; a June 26 filing registered 3.38M acquisition shares for resale, equal to 0.64% of shares, setting up a key test of real demand versus supply as index-driven volume fades ahead of the July 3 market holiday.

NASDAQ:ONDS·Stock Market

28 Jun

NVDA selloff drags $74 billion equity stake into spotlight

Nvidia plunged 8.6% last week to $192.53, wiping out about $443 billion in equity value, as chip stocks suffered their worst week since April and Nvidia’s massive equity investment book added new risk to quarterly results; a further drop to $189.23 would mark a 20% slide from its May high.

NASDAQ:NVDA·NVIDIA·Stock Market

28 Jun

AAPL volume spikes as QQQ faces memory squeeze risk

Apple (AAPL) surged 3.14% Friday on massive volume after a weeklong slide, but still lost $209 billion in value as memory chip price hikes forced iPad and MacBook increases; investors face margin pressure, supply-chain risks, and a short trading week with Apple now trading more on memory costs than iPhone cycles.

NASDAQ:AAPL·NASDAQ:QQQ·Stock Market·Technology

28 Jun

Nokia Oyj (HEL:NOKIA) slides, wiping out week’s gain as ADR volume surges

Nokia shares plunged 6.52% in Helsinki and 6.94% in New York Friday, wiping out weekly gains as investors dumped tech stocks ahead of Nokia’s Q2 results due July 23, with ADR trading volume nearly doubling and the stock closing about 24% below its June 3 high.

HEX:NOKIA·Stock Market

28 Jun

American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) pushes higher on fuel price moves ahead of July data

American Airlines surged 11.8% last week to $17.87, just below its $18.04 52-week high, as jet fuel prices fell to $2.80 a gallon—well under the company’s Q2 planning assumption of $4.00—raising hopes for a stronger earnings setup even as analysts’ price targets remain mixed and the S&P 500 dropped 2%.

Airlines·Breaking·Nasdaq·NASDAQ:AAL·Stock Market

28 Jun

Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL) heads into Monday after heavy volume and silver move

Hecla Mining surged 2.57% Friday on record volume driven by Russell index rebalancing, but still ended the week down 2.8% as silver prices at $58.78 per ounce remain 29% below Hecla’s Q1 realized price, raising concerns over margin repeatability as the stock faces its first session without index-flow noise on Monday.

ARCA:SIL·NASDAQ:NDAQ·NYSE:HL·Silver

28 Jun

Heat wave turns trash routes into cost test for Republic Services (NYSE:RSG)

Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) and Rumpke are shifting trash collection to earlier hours in Ohio and Indiana next week to avoid dangerous heat, as route timing is critical for controlling labor costs and maintaining margins; Republic last traded at $216.39, WM at $225.53, with no regular U.S. equity session underway at press time.

NYSE:RSG·NYSE:WM·Stock Market

28 Jun

Questions on U.S. funding follow Trump-linked KAZR investors as Kazakhstan tungsten deal hits

Skyline (NASDAQ:KAZR) secured $1.6 billion in nonbinding U.S. agency interest—145% of its Kazakhstan tungsten project’s $1.1 billion cost—before any final deal, with shares last at $3.00; investors face policy upside if financing closes, but early-stage mine risk remains, and the Cove Kaz merger still needs approvals.

NASDAQ:ASPI·NASDAQ:DOMH·NASDAQ:KAZR·Stock Market

28 Jun

Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

US Stock Market Today: Live Updates 28.06.2026

LIVEMarkets rolling coverageStarted: June 28, 2026, 4:00 AM EDTUpdated: June 28, 2026, 1:07 PM EDT Sandisk Surges 781% in 2026, Outperforming S&P 500 Stocks Amid AI Storage Demand June 28, 2026, 12:59 PM EDT. Sandisk’s stock has soared 781% in the first half of 2026, far outpacing all S&P 500 companies, including Micron’s 297% gain. This surge is driven by booming demand for NAND flash memory, crucial for AI systems that require vast, high-speed data storage. Sandisk, spun off from Western Digital in 2025, has seen a cumulative 3,900% gain since independence. Supply discipline following the 2023-2024 memory downturn has

Stock Market·US Economy

28 Jun

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) trades near highs as Fed stress test details leave investors watching payout schedule

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) closed at $57.88, down 0.53% after hitting a 52-week high, as investors await a July board decision on the next dividend following a Fed stress test showing commercial and industrial loans make up the largest share of projected losses, keeping focus on corporate credit ahead of July 14 earnings.

Federal Reserve·NYSE:BAC·Stock Market

28 Jun

PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) starts holiday week as target cuts hit defensive trade

PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) jumped 1.34% to $141.39 Friday but remains 17.55% below its February high as Jefferies, BofA, and Citi slashed price targets ahead of July 9 Q2 results, signaling caution even as the average analyst target sits 18.27% above the last close.

Holiday Trading·NASDAQ:PEP·Stock Market

28 Jun

Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG) closes week close to 52-week low, as nuclear renewal initiative continues

Constellation Energy (CEG) shares plunged 4.2% last week, erasing $4.1 billion in value and closing near a 52-week low at $264.02, even as the company filed for New York nuclear license extensions and secured Walmart’s first nuclear power purchase agreement, with Wall Street’s average analyst target still at $362.35.

Breaking·Energy Sector·NASDAQ:CEG·Stock Market

28 Jun

Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL) sees stock rebound, volume jumps as silver prices in focus

Hecla Mining surged 5.3 times its average trading volume Friday as index rebalancing drove 112.44 million shares traded, but the stock’s 2.6% weekly drop still beat silver and peer ETFs, signaling company-specific strength; investors now watch if Hecla can hold above $15.54 without rebalancing flows as macro risks loom.

Mining Industry·NYSE:HL·Silver Prices·Stock Market

28 Jun

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