US stocks spent Thursday behaving like a slightly over-caffeinated, negative economist: plenty of motion & an overall negative conviction, as investors digested another wave of tech volatility, macro cross-currents, and a busy new-issue calendar heading into Friday’s jobs data. As evidence the…
In a fitting summary for the day, hard assets glittered, AI narratives wobbled, and Eli Lilly proved that in 2026, the market’s favorite growth story is just as likely to come from the medicine cabinet as from the data center. Broadly on…
U.S. stocks lost a bit of altitude on Tuesday, as the AI trade paused for breath and investors briefly remembered that prices can, in fact, go down. But that is not all of the story as the small caps on the Russell…
U.S. stocks launched February with a flourish, as major indexes shrugged off weekend volatility in commodities and crypto to end Monday sharply higher.
S&P 500: Brushing Past Its Nerves
The S&P 500 spent the day flirting with record territory, ultimately closing just…
Wall Street closed the week ending January 30, 2026 looking like a marathoner who technically finished in positive territory but clearly felt the hill at the end. The S&P 500 managed a modest weekly gain of about 0.3%, while the Dow and…
Wall Street tiptoed through Thursday’s session like a tightrope walker over Times Square: plenty of wobble, very little actual fall. The major indexes finished mixed, with Big Tech nursing a post-earnings hangover while old‑economy names politely pretended not to notice.
Indexes: Tech…
U.S. stocks hovered near record territory on Wednesday as traders first waited for and then digested widely expected Fed pause, sky‑high gold, and another torrent of tech‑driven earnings, leaving the major indexes modestly mixed by the close.
Major U.S. Indexes
The S&P 500 inched…
Wall Street navigated a tale of two indices today, with tech-fueled optimism brushing against health-care headwinds, leaving investors to ponder if the AI rally is scripting a blockbuster or merely a plot twist..
S&P 500
The S&P 500 eked out a modest…
Humanity has quietly adopted a new roommate: a “country of geniuses in a datacenter” that never sleeps, drinks only electricity, and is learning faster than any prodigy in history. The question Dario Amodei raises is not whether this genius shows up, but…
Wall Street shook off last week’s jitters on Monday, January 26, 2026, climbing in unison with gold, silver and Bitcoin as investors decided that President Trump’s latest tariff broadside was reason enough to hedge—but not to abandon—risk.
Indexes: Risk-On With a Helmet…
