NYSE trading floor with screens showing stocks sliding as rising U.S. Treasury yields and Walmart (WMT) earnings pressure risk assets on August 20, 2026.
Wall Street’s optimism Thursday has a broad, increasingly commercial feel: NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) powering the compute, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) placing AI into enterprise workflows, Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) controlling identity, CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) defending the perimeter, and LG Display (NYSE: LPL; KRX: 034220) building premium interfaces for the physical world.Even Bitcoin (BTC-USD) participated, trading…