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Before Tuesday night’s ceasefire changed the immediate calculus, UBS Global Wealth Management had already moved decisively, revising its year-end S&P 500 target from 7,700 to 7,500 and trimming its mid-year forecast from 7,300 to 7,000. The note, dated April 6, reflected a banking institution recalibrating for a world where oil remains elevated and geopolitical uncertainty…
US stocks managed a slim fourth consecutive day of gains on Monday, with the S&P 500 rising 0.44% to close at 6,611.83, the Dow adding 165.21 points to settle at 46,669.88 and the Nasdaq Composite gaining 0.54% to 21,996.34 — but futures reversed course after the close as Trump held a White House press conference…
Markets return to full trading on Monday for the first time since Thursday after observing the Good Friday holiday, with investors stepping back into a financial landscape shaped almost entirely by the ongoing US-Iran war and the diplomatic signals that have flickered into view over the past week. The S&P 500 enters Monday near the…
Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles globally in the first quarter of 2026, missing Wall Street’s consensus estimate of approximately 365,645 units. The stock fell more than 5% on Thursday after the report, closing at $360.56, and is now down 20% for the year. The headline delivery number represented a 6% increase compared to Q1 2025, but…
The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq closed on Good Friday, April 3, in observance of the holiday, giving markets a four-day pause at the end of a volatile and unusual week dominated by geopolitical shock and corporate earnings. Trading is scheduled to resume Monday, April 6, at the standard 9:30 a.m. Eastern time opening…
NXP Semiconductors is a NASDAQ 100 company, with a market capitalization of $49 billion. Every major technological transition in modern history has required an enabling layer that the public rarely sees. The railways needed steel and signalling. The internet needed fibre and switching equipment. The current wave of electrification, automation, and intelligent connectivity is no…
Markets spent the morning of April 2 digesting a reality that the previous two sessions’ relief rally had refused to price in: Trump’s primetime address to the nation on Wednesday night was not the off-ramp investors were waiting for. S&P 500 futures fell 1.29% overnight after the speech, Nasdaq 100 futures lost 1.59%, and Dow…
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Tuesday was the kind of day Wall Street had been desperate for since February 28. The Dow Jones jumped 1,125 points, the S&P 500 surged 2.91%, and the Nasdaq advanced 3.83% — each index posting its biggest single-day gain since May — after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signalled publicly that Tehran has the “necessary will”…
Even in a week dominated by geopolitical anxiety and falling equities, one story managed to generate genuine excitement on Wall Street: the imminent prospect of a SpaceX IPO. Reports emerged that Elon Musk’s aerospace company could file its S-1 prospectus with the SEC as early as this week, kicking off what would be the largest…