Finance
Asian Chip Stocks Rally on July 21 as Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC Reverse Early-July AI-Chip Selloff
South Korea's Kospi and Taiwan's Taiex jumped Tuesday, recovering ground lost in a July selloff driven by doubts over AI spending, aided by strong recent earnings from U.S. memory maker Micron.
War-Risk Insurance for Tankers in the Strait of Hormuz Jumps Again as U.S.-Iran Fighting Resumes
Marine insurers are quoting single-voyage war-risk rates as high as 10% of a ship's value after a mid-July collapse of the U.S.-Iran truce, raising the cost of moving oil through a waterway that carries roughly a fifth of the world's crude.
Nasdaq Falls About 1.5% as Chip Selloff and Netflix's Weak Guidance Weigh on U.S. Stocks
A multi-day, mutually reinforcing retreat from AI and semiconductor shares across Asia and Wall Street culminated on July 16-17, 2026, in a U.S. selloff amplified by a soft third-quarter forecast from Netflix.
Markets Swing as U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes Across the Gulf; Oil Climbs Anew, Gold Slips
Iran says it hit U.S.-linked bases in Bahrain and Kuwait after fresh American strikes on Iran; crude briefly topped $80 earlier in the week, eased, then climbed again toward $79 as the Gulf strikes landed, while gold fell for a second session and equity futures swung as investors gauged the odds of a wider war.
June Employment Report Arrives Early as Fed Chair Warsh Says Inflation Is 'Too High' and Weighs a Rate Increase
The Labor Department released its June jobs data on July 2, a day ahead of the July 4 holiday, amid an unusual debate over whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates rather than cut them.
House Panel Takes Up Bitcoin Reserve Bill a Day After Senate Blocks Crypto Market-Structure Bill 50-49
The House Financial Services Committee is marking up H.R. 8957 on Sept. 16; bitcoin, Coinbase and Circle all fell on Sept. 15 after the Senate's CLARITY Act cloture vote failed.
Lennar Reports Third-Quarter Results the Same Day as the Fed's Rate Decision
Lennar releases fiscal third-quarter numbers after Wednesday's close, hours after the Federal Reserve's September 16 announcement. FedEx, sometimes grouped into this week's earnings coverage, does not report again until its fiscal first-quarter results on October 28.
Baldwin Group Agrees to $32.50-a-Share Take-Private Deal Valued at $7.7 Billion With Sequence Holdings and Michael Dell's Family Office
The Tampa-based insurance brokerage said on September 14, 2026 that an entity formed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management will buy a majority stake in an all-cash deal, with employees rolling over equity and closing targeted for the first quarter of 2027.
Chip and AI Stocks Fall in Seoul, Tokyo and U.S. Premarket After Amodei, Altman and Musk Call for Slowing Frontier AI Development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Sept. 12, 2026 urging labs to "pace the frontier"; Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed it, and AI-linked shares fell on Monday, Sept. 14.
SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 Weighting Set to Rise to About 2.8% From 1.3% in Sept. 21 Rebalance
Nasdaq's pro forma data show SpaceX's index weight more than doubling after lockup expirations expanded its tradable share count, a change analysts say will force billions in buying by funds that track the index.