Today: 2 July 2026
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares up, leaving little margin for error on AI upgrade story
2 July 2026

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares up, leaving little margin for error on AI upgrade story

Apple Inc. jumped 3.9% to $305.81 at about 10:50 a.m. in New York, tacking on around $168 billion in market value. That move cut against the broader tape: Invesco QQQ Trust slipped 0.8%, while SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust traded up 0.2%. The focus is on the gap here—Apple is being pushed back toward its June highs even as fresh survey data raises doubts about whether AI features are making iPhone owners upgrade any faster. UBS analyst David Vogt wrote Thursday that roughly 24% of survey respondents now say they would upgrade sooner due to Apple Intelligence, a drop of 500 basis points from the last six months. At the same time, about 31% reported the new features have no
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Dow Jones closes down 437 points, short of 20th record high close for 2026

Dow outpaces S&P 500 after weak jobs data; record close in sight

2 July 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 435.10 points, or 0.83%, to 52,740.34 as of 10:51 a.m. EDT on Thursday, leading U.S. stocks higher. The blue-chip index moved in a range between 52,395.22 and 52,805.12, topping both its prior close of 52,305.24 and the record close of 52,319.20 from Tuesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.24% at that time, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.21%. Thursday will see normal U.S. stock trading hours, and it's also the last cash session before the July 4 holiday. Markets open at 9:30 a.m. ET and close at 4:00 p.m. ET for both NYSE and Nasdaq. Both exchanges have Friday, July 3, 2026, marked as closed.
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CrowdStrike split moves option-lot to $19,300 with stock holding close to highs

CrowdStrike split moves option-lot to $19,300 with stock holding close to highs

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. starts its first day after the 4-for-1 stock split with a lower per-share number for retail and options trades, but the valuation is unchanged. Shares climbed 1.26% Wednesday to $772.74, extending their winning streak to five sessions. The close left CrowdStrike 1.64% under its 52-week high of $785.66. On a split-adjusted basis, that puts the price at $193.19 ahead of the regular session open. At the time of the dateline, markets were still in the pre-open phase. The Nasdaq’s regular trading hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern, with premarket open from 4:00 a.m. Nasdaq will be closed July 3 for Independence Day observed. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.24% as of 5:00 a.m. ET, according to
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Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) shares surge $4.6 billion on AI deal before firm books licensing revenue

Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) shares surge $4.6 billion on AI deal before firm books licensing revenue

Reddit, Inc. heads into Thursday’s New York premarket with investors looking at the numbers: shares jumped 13.7% Wednesday, closing at $197.42. That move adds about $4.6 billion in equity value, based on MarketBeat’s listed $38.01 billion market cap. In its March-quarter filing, Reddit reported $120.6 million in performance obligations tied mostly to long-term content licensing contracts longer than a year. The gap matters as the stock is trading on future AI data renewal hopes, not what Reddit has already signed. If the new licensing deals don’t come in higher, investors are just getting a high-priced ad stock growing fast.
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CoreWeave faces $35 billion Meta exposure as stock slumps

CoreWeave faces $35 billion Meta exposure as stock slumps

CoreWeave, Inc. shed nearly as much in market cap in a single day as a third of its newest Meta Platforms, Inc. deal. Traders are shifting focus from just the company’s backlog to who will end up owning the future supply of AI compute. The stock traded at $85.69, off 13.9% from the previous close. Meta gained 8.8% to $612.91. Shares of Nebius Group N.V., which also has Meta exposure, dropped 17.0%. The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 shed 1.5%. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust was mostly flat.
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Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) slides as neocloud contract bump gets tested

Nebius falls after Nasdaq-100 inclusion puts Meta exposure in focus, high shorts in play

Nebius Group N.V. traded lower ahead of the U.S. session Thursday, quoted 0.40% down to $228.27. The stock had dropped 17.01% to $229.18 on Wednesday. Trading volume hit 30.68 million shares that day, or 174% of the 65-day average, with shares moving between $228.17 and $246.49. The dollar loss from the selloff was bigger than the percentage figure shows. A $46.99 fall on 253.9 million outstanding shares as of March 31 works out to about $11.9 billion off Nebius’s equity value. Nebius’s market cap was $57.67 billion after Wednesday’s close, MarketWatch data shows.
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AT&T faces $15.7 billion SpaceX hit as stock selloff weighs on dividend plans

AT&T faces $15.7 billion SpaceX hit as stock selloff weighs on dividend plans

AT&T Inc. traded lower before Thursday’s open, with shares at $20.48, down $0.205, or 1.0%, in premarket action. The move comes as SpaceX’s push has investors reassessing U.S. telecom risk. The core NYSE session will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on regular trading days, though July 3 is counted as the Independence Day observed holiday. Investors are pulling out their calculators after the “Big Three” telecom stocks tanked again, with Barron’s saying $15.74 billion got wiped off AT&T’s market cap. That drop is part of a $46 billion combined slide for AT&T, Verizon Communications Inc., and T-Mobile US Inc.. For AT&T, losing that much in market value is about the same as two full years of 2026
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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock tests $200 as chip selloff shifts to AI capacity risk

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock tests $200 as chip selloff shifts to AI capacity risk

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2 July 2026
NVIDIA Corporation is starting Thursday with a cleaner test than most chip stocks: the stock is below $200, but it did not fall like the rest of the semiconductor tape. Nvidia closed Wednesday at $197.58, down $2.51, or 1.25%, after touching $193.45. It was quoted at $195.50 at 4:07 a.m. EDT in premarket trade. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index ended Wednesday down 6.3%, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.66% and the S&P 500 fell 0.22%. Meta Platforms rose 8.8% after a report that it is building a cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity.
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Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) shares fall after Toyota JV filing ties funding to certification

Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) shares fall after Toyota JV filing ties funding to certification

Joby Aviation, Inc. dropped in Wednesday’s session after Toyota Motor Corp expanded its manufacturing partnership with the company. Joby ended the day off 0.9% at $8.84. Shares moved between $9.31 and $8.73, with volume hitting about 45.9 million, higher than the 65-day average of 32.1 million. Toyota was in the headline. The filing focused on timing.
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Amazon (AMZN) stock gains with AWS’s $1B AI engineer plan testing AI capex returns

Amazon (AMZN) stock gains with AWS’s $1B AI engineer plan testing AI capex returns

Amazon.com, Inc. traded at $241.70 late Wednesday in after-hours, up 1.4% from Tuesday’s close. The Invesco QQQ Trust lost 1.5% and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust edged down 0.1%. The quote was posted after the regular Nasdaq session, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern. After-hours continues until 8 p.m. The Nasdaq is set to close on Friday, July 3, for Independence Day. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.66% and the PHLX semiconductor index slid 6.3% as chip names pulled the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower, according to Reuters. Amazon’s gain was a rare positive, even as Meta Platforms Inc. climbed on talk of an AI cloud push.
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Dow Jones closes down 437 points, short of 20th record high close for 2026

Dow Jones closes down 437 points, short of 20th record high close for 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down 13.96 points on Wednesday. The drop came after an earlier gain that saw it hit 52,742.66, but the Dow lost steam, slipping 437.42 points from that intraday high. It settled at 52,305.24, missing out on what would have been its 20th record close of 2026. In the last 30 minutes, the index needed just a small gain to get to that milestone. Investors paid more attention to the swings in the tape than to how the Dow closed. The index fell much further from its high than the final change showed—a 31:1 ratio. The Dow traded across a 716.02-point range for the day, equal to 1.37% of its closing value, according to WSJ
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Nokia (HEL:NOKIA) share rally may account for about 40% of Helsinki index move

Nokia (NOKIA) shares hold up after FMR voting stake dips under 5%

Nokia Oyj slipped Wednesday after a new filing showed FMR LLC’s indirect voting rights in the company fell below 5% as of June 29. Its shareholding stayed just above at 5.20%. The stock has traded as an AI infrastructure play. Nasdaq Helsinki ran a regular session on July 1, with trading in local stocks set for 10:00 to 18:30. July 1 isn’t on the 2026 exchange holiday calendar.
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Micron (NASDAQ:MU) looks to big memory contracts as stock moves into new week

Micron (NASDAQ:MU) falls after GM contract, traders weigh AI memory bets

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1 July 2026
Micron Technology fell 9.8% to $1,041.12 as of 13:58 EDT, in delayed trading. The memory-chip company and General Motors announced a long-term supply agreement. Even so, shares sank $113.17 from Tuesday’s close, wiping around $130 billion from Micron’s value based on its quoted share count. That’s roughly 1.9 times GM’s total market cap. Micron took a hit, and that’s the story. The GM deal adds another buyer for Micron’s memory and storage over the long haul, but the market wants proof. The shares now bake in a tough bet—memory chips trading more like a contracted AI part and less like a classic boom-bust commodity.
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Datavault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT) gains 21% on $700 million minerals push, but $1 Nasdaq gap holds

Datavault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT) gains 21% on $700 million minerals push, but $1 Nasdaq gap holds

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1 July 2026
Datavault AI Inc. jumped 21% after outlining its $700 million minerals plan, but the stock still trades a dollar below Nasdaq minimums. Datavault AI Inc. jumped 21.0% to $0.4234 by midday Wednesday. The company said it is teaming up with Patriot Strategic Metals LLC on a planned strategic minerals platform with an initial Phase I program of up to $700 million. Shares stayed well below the $1 close needed for a Nasdaq cure.
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Walmart stock sinks, wiping $42 billion, raises questions for ad-media value

Walmart stock sinks, wiping $42 billion, raises questions for ad-media value

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1 July 2026
Walmart Inc. lost 4.7% to $107.99 in New York trading late Wednesday morning, wiping out around $42 billion in market cap from the previous close. That loss is big. The stock is priced like a premium growth play, and even this pullback didn’t change that for some investors. Earlier, MarketWatch listed Walmart’s 52-week range as $94.23 to $135.16. At last check, shares traded roughly 20% under that high. Market cap stood near $864 billion. The stock’s trailing P/E was 37.9.
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Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) yield tops 7% after stock falls on China GLP-1 news

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) yield tops 7% after stock falls on China GLP-1 news

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Pfizer Inc traded lower Tuesday afternoon, trailing the main indexes again and raising fresh questions around the stock’s dividend. The New York Stock Exchange was open for normal trading hours. Its 2026 holiday calendar lists July 3 as the next full-day closure for Independence Day. The stock changed hands at $24.14 as of 2:50 p.m. EDT, off 23 cents from the previous close. About 32 million shares traded. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust added 0.9%. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund slipped 0.7%. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF ticked up 0.3%.
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IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) falls as AI-cloud ARR valuation slips, Meta risk weighs on neoclouds

IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) falls as $694M CEO pay meets Russell 1000 index move

IREN Limited dropped 11.9% to $38.16 in Thursday’s early U.S. trade, lagging behind the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1, which slipped 1.8%. IREN kicked off at $42.48, reached $43.90, then hovered just above its $37.87 session low. The sell-off hit more than just this stock. AI names and power-focused crypto infra stocks also dropped sharply. IREN’s slide followed news of an executive-comp pay filing and a product hire announced that day.
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02 Jul
USPS confirms July 4 shutdown, parcel investors brace for split in mail, markets

USPS confirms July 4 shutdown, parcel investors brace for split in mail, markets

Saturday’s Independence Day has led to an unusual schedule for shippers and markets in the U.S. The mail is still running Friday, but cash equity markets aren’t. For United Parcel Service and FedEx investors, this is more than a simple holiday statement. The worry is about just how much low-cost parcel volume now relies on USPS rates and last-mile work. The Postal Service said Post Offices will be closed on July 4 for Independence Day, with regular mail and retail service back on July 6. Locations and deliveries will operate normally on July 3. Big Island Now reported the same schedule for Post Offices in Hawaii on July 1.
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02 Jul
Deltic Energy bid spread remains open as thin AIM quote tests cash offer

Deltic Energy bid spread remains open as thin AIM quote tests cash offer

Deltic Energy Plc keeps acting more like a deal arb play than an explorer. The shares remain under the cash offer price, despite shareholders approving the NEO NEXT+ Energy Upstream UK Limited buyout. Deltic closed flat at 7.00p in London, according to delayed screens, putting the AIM-listed North Sea investor’s market cap at about 6.5 million pounds. NEO NEXT+ will buy Deltic for 7.7p a share in cash, putting the offer’s diluted value near 7.2 million pounds.
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02 Jul
TELUS (TSE:T) slide gives new CEO a tougher dividend challenge

TELUS (TSE:T) slide gives new CEO a tougher dividend challenge

TELUS Corporation dropped in Toronto on Thursday, the first day of trading since Victor Dodig became CEO. The yield on the stock sits well above that of other big Canadian telecoms, but TELUS is still working to cut its leverage, leaving investors with a new issue to figure out. The Toronto Stock Exchange was shut Wednesday for Canada Day, with trading back to normal on Thursday. TELUS started at CA$15.00, moved up to CA$15.25 before dropping to CA$14.71—the same 52-week low shown on Google Finance. S&P/TSX Composite Index traded higher late morning.
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02 Jul
BlackBerry (TSX:BB) gains put focus on buyback math and valuation after QNX update

BlackBerry (NYSE:BB; TSE:BB) rally pauses as note conversion faces test

BlackBerry Limited shares dropped sharply Thursday, but the daily move wasn’t the whole story. The recent rally has brought the company’s convertible notes into focus as investors rethink the valuation for its QNX embedded systems business. BlackBerry’s U.S. shares were at $11.68 as of 11:54 a.m. EDT, off $1.13 from the previous close. The stock opened at $12.75 and touched $13.00 earlier in the session. Trading volume reached 28.4 million shares. That’s under the 43.7 million average from Google Finance, but still kept BlackBerry active ahead of the U.S. holiday break.
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02 Jul
Gold slips under $4,000 with traders watching Fed signals

Gold price tops $4,100 after U.S. jobs data revisions fuel Fed-rate hopes

Gold jumped past $4,100 on Thursday after the latest U.S. payrolls data pointed to a softer labor market than markets had been expecting. The headline was a 57,000 job gain for June, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics cut April and May’s numbers by a combined 74,000, so the revisions wiped out more jobs than were added last month. Economists in the Reuters poll were looking for a 110,000 increase. Spot gold climbed 2.4% to $4,126.97 an ounce as of 9:00 a.m. EDT. U.S. gold futures gained 1.4% to $4,139.20. The dollar index dropped 0.7%.
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02 Jul
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) AI backlog tops market cap but spending keeps rising

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) AI backlog tops market cap but spending keeps rising

Oracle is trading less like a typical software name and more like a buildout on credit, with $638 billion in future contracted revenue, a $411 billion market cap, and cash outflows that are outpacing near-term revenue realization. Oracle shares changed hands at $141.27 as of 11:48 a.m. EDT, off 0.9% for the session and putting the company’s market cap near $411.4 billion. Microsoft was much larger, with a market value around $2.90 trillion.
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02 Jul
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) edges lower as market looks at $1 trillion CPU potential

AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) edges lower as market looks at $1 trillion CPU potential

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices slipped Thursday, despite more bullish price targets from big Wall Street firms. The market is debating whether AMD’s AI value still sits with its CPUs instead of GPUs. The stock fell 3.5% to $521.78 in late-morning trading in the U.S., giving it a market cap of about $861.4 billion and a trailing P/E ratio of 171.2, based on the latest quote. It closed at a record $580.91 on June 30, putting its market value close to $947 billion, according to Barron’s.
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02 Jul
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares up, leaving little margin for error on AI upgrade story

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares up, leaving little margin for error on AI upgrade story

Apple Inc. jumped 3.9% to $305.81 at about 10:50 a.m. in New York, tacking on around $168 billion in market value. That move cut against the broader tape: Invesco QQQ Trust slipped 0.8%, while SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust traded up 0.2%. The focus is on the gap here—Apple is being pushed back toward its June highs even as fresh survey data raises doubts about whether AI features are making iPhone owners upgrade any faster. UBS analyst David Vogt wrote Thursday that roughly 24% of survey respondents now say they would upgrade sooner due to Apple Intelligence, a drop of 500 basis points from the last six months. At the same time, about 31% reported the new features have no
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02 Jul
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) rise powers QQQ early as delivery test looms

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) slips after Q2 beat depends on inventory drawdown

Tesla, Inc. dropped 6.8% to $396.52 late Thursday morning. The EV maker had posted a solid second-quarter delivery beat, but shares still fell. Tesla started at $428.29, hit $436.93 early on, then slid to a session low of $396.18 by about 10:52 a.m. ET, according to the latest quote. Stocks were open in normal trading hours. The NYSE is set to close on Friday, July 3, 2026, for the Independence Day holiday. Regular session hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, according to the New York Stock Exchange.
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02 Jul
Dow Jones closes down 437 points, short of 20th record high close for 2026

Dow outpaces S&P 500 after weak jobs data; record close in sight

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 435.10 points, or 0.83%, to 52,740.34 as of 10:51 a.m. EDT on Thursday, leading U.S. stocks higher. The blue-chip index moved in a range between 52,395.22 and 52,805.12, topping both its prior close of 52,305.24 and the record close of 52,319.20 from Tuesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.24% at that time, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.21%. Thursday will see normal U.S. stock trading hours, and it's also the last cash session before the July 4 holiday. Markets open at 9:30 a.m. ET and close at 4:00 p.m. ET for both NYSE and Nasdaq. Both exchanges have Friday, July 3, 2026, marked as closed.
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02 Jul
Nasdaq bounce hides thin megacap recovery as US stocks end

US stocks edge up as jobs data pushes money out of AI chipmakers

U.S. stocks climbed Thursday as June jobs numbers eased Fed rate hike fears without signaling a jobs crisis. Away from the headline indexes, equal-weight and sector ETFs outperformed cap-weighted tech, even though semiconductors lagged and the big indexes moved higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 447.72 points, or 0.86%, to 52,752.96 at 9:48 a.m. ET. The S&P 500 was up 49.84 points, or 0.67%, trading at 7,533.51. The Nasdaq Composite rose 146.99 points, or 0.56%, to 26,187.02.
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02 Jul
Regencell Bioscience (NASDAQ:RGC) slumps 63% under May offer after rebound fades

Regencell Bioscience (NASDAQ:RGC) slumps 63% under May offer after rebound fades

Regencell Bioscience Holdings Limited dropped Thursday morning after jumping on Wednesday. The move came as biotech funds traded higher. The stock is trading out of sync with the sector and is still well under the price from the company’s share sale six weeks back. Regencell was trading at $7.50, down 6.6% from its last close, as of 9:53 a.m. EDT. The stock opened at $8.00, swung from $7.44 to $9.31, a 25.1% intraday range, with 282,403 shares trading. According to Investing.com, it finished July 1 at $8.03, up 31.86%, on 2.57 million shares. That was after closing June 30 at $6.09.
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02 Jul
CaliberCos (NASDAQ:CWD) jumps 100% on Chainlink news, float trades over 24 times in wild session

CaliberCos (NASDAQ:CWD) jumps 100% on Chainlink news, float trades over 24 times in wild session

CaliberCos Inc. jumped close to 100% early Thursday after the Scottsdale-based asset manager said it will use Chainlink tech to tokenize its private real estate funds. Turnover, not the price spike, was the clearer indicator in the market. CWD jumped to $1.28 as of 9:50 a.m. EDT, almost doubling from yesterday’s $0.6453 close. Shares started at $1.47, hit $1.65 early, and traded on heavy volume with 202.2 million shares changing hands, according to data.
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02 Jul
Select Medical (NYSE:SEM) leaves NYSE after $3.9B buyout, one-cent deal spread

Select Medical (NYSE:SEM) leaves NYSE after $3.9B buyout, one-cent deal spread

Select Medical Holdings Corporation closed its run on the New York Stock Exchange with shares finishing nearly right at the cash price for its merger. That wrapped up its time in the market as an option on hospitals, rehab clinics, and steady cash flow. Select Medical, based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, said June 30 it wrapped up its sale to a group led by Executive Chairman and co-founder Robert A. Ortenzio, Senior EVP of Strategic Finance and Operations Martin F. Jackson, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Shareholders get $16.50 per share in cash, putting Select Medical's value near $3.9 billion, according to the company. The merger closed at 12:01 a.m. on July 1. SEM stopped trading and lost its NYSE
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02 Jul
Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) stock jumps as guide math shifts focus to second-half R2 ramp

Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) stock jumps as guide math shifts focus to second-half R2 ramp

Rivian Automotive, Inc. jumped in early U.S. trading on Thursday after the electric-vehicle maker raised its 2026 delivery forecast, but the sharper investor read is in the guide math: the company still needs to deliver almost twice its second-quarter volume in each of the next two quarters to hit the midpoint of the new range. Market data near 9:54 a.m. EDT showed Rivian well ahead of EV peers and broad U.S. equity proxies.
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02 Jul
Clearwater Analytics (NYSE:CWAN) ends with 1-cent spread following $8.4B deal

Clearwater Analytics stock out: Glazer merger-arb trade now zero, filing says

Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc is done trading after being taken private. Its last trade printed at $24.56, just a penny above the $24.55 per share cash buyout. Clearwater said its Class A shares are now off the NYSE after the acquisition closed June 25. The penny difference worked out to just 0.04%. For merger-arb, the spread was all but gone. What remained was cash, deal timing, and execution frictions.
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02 Jul
Linkhome Holdings (NASDAQ:LHAI) stock trades as $44 mln market cap faces $28 mln mortgage limit

Linkhome Holdings (NASDAQ:LHAI) stock trades as $44 mln market cap faces $28 mln mortgage limit

Linkhome Holdings Inc. shot up Wednesday, gaining $33.8 million in market cap before Thursday’s session. The jump followed news that Mortgage One Group brings $28 million in warehouse lending capacity. LHAI closed up 315.15% at $2.74, with its market value landing at $44.47 million. The company says Mortgage One adds $28 million of warehouse capacity, 39 staff, and licenses to lend in 18 states. LHAI traded at $1.75, down 36.13% from Wednesday’s close, with the move showing up in premarket at 09:05 EDT, according to Webull. The Nasdaq opens for regular trading at 9:30 a.m. ET. The exchange marks Friday, July 3, as closed for Independence Day observed, per its calendar.
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02 Jul
Strategy to sell bitcoin gives room as MSTR buyback lags new shares

Strategy stock gains still trail $19 billion bitcoin pile as buyback calculus moves

Strategy Inc traded at $99.17 in premarket Thursday, gaining 6.2% from its $93.39 close Wednesday. The bitcoin treasury firm moved to allow BTC sales and to buy back common and preferred shares. U.S. cash markets hadn't started when dateline hit. Nasdaq's main session is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, with premarket from 4 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET. The exchange shuts Friday, July 3, for Independence Day observed.
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02 Jul
June jobs data 2026: Falling labor force hides soft hiring, affects Fed outlook

June jobs data 2026: Falling labor force hides soft hiring, affects Fed outlook

June’s U.S. jobs numbers were soft on the surface, but some market action might be in the details. Labor supply dropped sharply and leisure hiring slowed down. Headline payroll growth came in under the BLS’s unofficial bar for a solid monthly read. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 57,000 in June, the Labor Department reported. Revisions showed April and May were lower by a net 74,000. May’s figure dropped to 129,000 from 172,000. Reuters had forecast 110,000 jobs. The jobless rate ticked down to 4.2% from 4.3%.
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02 Jul
Palantir surges, adding $23 billion as Nvidia AI tie-up pushes valuation

Palantir surges, adding $23 billion as Nvidia AI tie-up pushes valuation

Palantir Technologies Inc. trades more like a gatekeeper for enterprise AI than a regular software play. The stock finished Wednesday at $125.73, up $9.06, or 7.77%, with 58.56 million shares traded. That’s well above the 65-day average volume of 45.17 million. Premarket quotes put the shares at $128.60 as of 8:42 a.m. EDT Thursday, up 2.28%. Still off the 52-week high of $207.52.
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02 Jul
StablecoinX (NASDAQ:USDE) pops after Harness rollout, post-SPAC valuation gap in focus

StablecoinX (NASDAQ:USDE) pops after Harness rollout, post-SPAC valuation gap in focus

StablecoinX Inc. jumped over 100% in early premarket Thursday following its rollout of a stablecoin software platform. But for most traders, the bigger question was elsewhere: shares still traded at a big premium to the ENA-token value the company marks to, and public feeds hadn’t updated for the new share count after the SPAC deal. MarketWatch had USDE quoted at $4.5198 as of 8:04 a.m. EDT, up 117.30% in premarket trade on volume of 16.33 million shares. Shares ended Wednesday at $2.08, a drop of 24.36%, with 13.5 million shares changing hands. That’s around 60 times its 65-day average of 223,970 shares.
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