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.
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…
