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Meta stock’s gains are leading the S&P 500 and the Magnificent Seven on Friday. The S&P 500 was up 0.2%, and the Dow gained 0.2%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was up 0.1%. Meta stock was up 5.8%, adding to its best week since 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

There were multiple recent catalysts that sent Meta stock higher from reports that the company plans to rent out its surplus compute to Mark Zuckerberg announcing the release of Muse Spark 1.1, and a reported internal memo about expanding its computing capacity and a new AI chip through a partnership with Broadcom. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF was up 1.2%, mostly thanks to Meta’s climb.

Apple and Nvidia are the world’s largest publicly traded companies by market capitalization, and they have the technical foundation to lead a Mag 7 resurgence.

All three major indexes are marching higher, following the Nasdaq’s lead. The tech heavy Nasdaq is up nearly 1.2%, followed by the S&P 500, up 0.8%. The Dow is up 196 points, or 0.4%. Broad participation is supporting the move higher, with the majority of Nasdaq and the S&P 500 components in the green.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the hottest financial sector right now, based on expectation and anticipation. The expectations are over its far-reaching productivity boosting capabilities to generate huge profits in practically every industrial sector that uses computers, and the anticipation is over AI’s commercial realization timing. The AI fervor is one of the biggest ... Apollo Sounds the Alarm: AI Profits Are a No-Show Outside Tech, and AI-Heavy ETFs Could Pay the Price

Chip stocks are on the move, inching higher to shake off some recent losses. The PHLX Semiconductor Index is up 1.3%, with 27 of its 30 stocks in the green despite the broader market sell-off fueled by a reignited U.

Memory stocks are in a bear market, but the Magnificent Seven are back on the offense — leading the market higher once again.

The Dow crept back to breakeven, but tech and momentum plays were still driving most of the market’s gains. The blue-chip index was moving in and out of positive territory, while the Nasdaq was up 1%. Only about half the Dow stocks and 43% of the S&P 500 stocks were rising.

Broadcom will supply Apple with custom application-specific integrated circuits, known as ASICs, through 2031, it said in a securities filing. Broadcom stock rose 4.1% to $375.13 on Monday. Apple has been one of Broadcom’s leading customers since 2010, notably buying hardware to assist with wireless connectivity.

Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy for BofA, doesn’t see “any reason to continue to buy Magnificent Seven or megacap tech stocks that are the capex spenders.”

The Dow closed out its fourth-straight week of gains at a record on Thursday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 were dragged down by another chip selloff. The Dow rallied 594 points, or 1.1%. The S&P 500 was flat.

The Nasdaq is once again drowning in a chip stock selloff. The tech-heavy index tumbled 0.7%. The S&P 500 was up just 0.1%, even though 340 stocks in the index were higher. The Dow was up 431 points, or 0.

Meta surged more than 11% on a report that the company plans to sell its excess computing power to third parties. The stock is on track for its largest single-day gain since April 9, 2025, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

Yahoo Finance looks at how major assets performed through the first half of the year.

The small-cap index is headed for its fourth consecutive record and is headed for its best first half of the year since the 90s, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The small cap index is up roughly 22% this year, its best performance since 1991, when it rose 26.6%.

This year's second quarter was a blockbuster period for tech stocks. The PHLX Semiconductor Index—which houses chip stocks like Nvidia and Broadcom—has climbed 81% through yesterday, putting it on track for its best quarter in history. Once darlings of the industry, some of the biggest names in tech have fallen out of favor with investors as they fret about these companies' big AI spending commitments.

The Dow is back at record levels, but the stock market’s rally has some room to run. The S&P 500 was up 1.2% on Monday, while the Dow closed above 52,000 for the first time, up 0.6%. The Nasdaq gained 2.1%.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq could snap their losing streaks, but it may come at the cost of some recent broadening. The S&P 500 was up 0.8%, but only 185 stocks in the index were rising. The Nasdaq was up 1.4%.

The market’s breadth—the number of advancing stocks versus declining ones—has still been positive, even on days when tech is a mess.

Amid a historic surge in chip stocks and a continued malaise for software, investors have all but forgotten about the once stalwart Mag Seven group of stocks.

A mixed session on Wall Street uncovers a deeper anxiety—what happens if tech giants decide the AI boom is getting too expensive? Plus, a look at today’s inflation data.

The bleeding in Magnificent Seven stocks dragged down the S&P 500 and Nasdaq again on Thursday, but other sectors cruised along. The Nasdaq fell 0.5%. For the fourth time, the Dow failed to close above 52,000 after crossing that mark during intraday trading.

A massive rotation at the expense of big AI spenders has the Magnificent Seven on pace to shed $3 trillion this month. Collectively, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Amazon.com, and Alphabet have lost $2.99 trillion in market cap so far in June, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF is on pace for its worst month on record.

SK Hynix will be easier for investors to buy. Will that hurt demand for South Korean funds and the DRAM ETF?

There goes chips, and there goes the market. The Nasdaq dropped 0.4% suddenly on Wednesday after posting solid gains earlier in the session. Even the S&P 500, which featured good breadth, was down 0.2%.

After weeks of large-scale alarms that turned out to be false starts, equities finally found a real problem — the one they spent two years celebrating.

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A steep tech stock selloff may wipe out more than $1 trillion in market value from the Nasdaq 100. Nasdaq 100 futures were down 3% on Tuesday. The Nasdaq 100’s market cap was roughly $41.27 trillion on Monday.

A selloff of large technology stocks sent the Nasdaq reeling, but the Dow managed to weather the storm. The Dow rose 163 points, or 0.3%. The Nasdaq fell 1.3%. The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, even though breadth was solid for much of the afternoon.

The Nasdaq kept falling on Monday after Alphabet’s sharp drop bled into other large technology stocks. The S&P 500 was down 0.3%, even though a majority of stocks and sectors in the index were rising. The Dow, which does not include Alphabet, was up 165 points, or 0.3%.