US stocks traded choppy on Monday, May 18, 2026, as investors balanced war headlines, rising oil, and anticipation for Nvidia’s mid‑week earnings, with indexes hovering near recent records while breadth and small caps lagged. Bond yields eased after last week’s spike, even…
The global economy is serving up a curious 2026 prix fixe: China shopping for U.S. commodities again, CEOs quietly hiking menu prices, tankers dodging tension near Hormuz, and Nvidia (NVDA) back on investors’ dessert tray as “flavor of the day.”
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U.S. stocks logged a choppy week through Friday, May 14, 2026 when it sold off solidly at the end of the week, as major indexes pushed to fresh records even while rising bond yields and pre‑earnings jitters around Nvidia (NVDA) kept…
U.S. stocks finished broadly higher on Thursday, May 14, 2026, with the major indices rising in unison as the AI trade roared back and investors looked past lingering inflation worries.
Index performance
All three major benchmarks advanced, with the AI‑heavy Nasdaq leading…
US stocks saw a split personality session Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hovering around record territory on the strength of big tech and chips, even as a hotter producer‑inflation print kept pressure on the broader tape and the Dow.
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US producer prices just delivered a 6% year-over-year jolt in April, and $5 or $7 in the San Francisco Bay area plus gasoline at your local Chevron (CVX) station ,etc. is now less an economic footnote than a line item in the…
US stocks erased early gains and finished mixed on Tuesday as a hotter‑than‑expected April CPI report rattled rate‑cut hopes and knocked the air out of the recent tech‑led melt‑up.
Index recap
The S&P 500 (-.16%) and Nasdaq (-.71%) slipped from record territory…
April’s consumer price index didn’t exactly crash the party, but it did show up with an extra guest: a touch more inflation than markets ordered. Year‑over‑year CPI rose about 3.8% in April, marginally topping economists’ expectations of roughly 3.7% and marking a…
US stocks finished modestly higher across the board on Monday, with the Dow grinding up, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq notching fresh record closes, and energy leading as oil jumped +3.09% to $98.37/bbl on renewed Middle East tensions and “CPI Eve” nerves.…
U.S. equities finished the week of May 4–8 higher, with gains led by mega‑cap tech and semiconductors as investors digested a solid but cooling April jobs report and reassured Fed guidance that policy will remain mildly restrictive but not overtly hawkish.
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