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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…
U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday, August 18, 2026, with technology shares and small-cap stocks sustaining the sharpest losses. The selling followed renewed pressure from elevated oil prices, historically high long-dated Treasury yields, and economic data showing a sizable decline in U.S. housing…