Today: 14 July 2026
Dow Jones live: Small decline masks 936 points of single-stock swings
14 July 2026

Dow Jones live: Small decline masks 936 points of single-stock swings

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 96.05 points, or 0.18%, to 52,402.59 at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, but the modest loss hid a much larger fight inside the index. International Business Machines, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase produced about 936 points of gross movement — gains and losses counted before they offset — based on near-noon share prices. The headline move understated the churn.
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Agenus Stock Soars 83%, but $255 Million of Its $340 Million Lifeline Is Still Conditional

Agenus Stock Soars 83%, but $255 Million of Its $340 Million Lifeline Is Still Conditional

Agenus Inc. shares closed 82.7% higher at $6.12 on Monday after the cancer-drug developer unveiled financing of up to $340 million for a pivotal colon-cancer study. The stock reached $8.70 and roughly 174 million shares changed hands. The regular U.S. session had not opened at the dateline; Nasdaq was scheduled to trade normally on Tuesday.
14 July 2026
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Salesforce Shares Up 4.8% as Debt Dims Value Pitch

Salesforce Shares Up 4.8% as Debt Dims Value Pitch

Salesforce Inc. rose 4.8% to end Monday at $171.22, topping the S&P 500's 0.8% drop. Investors moved back into the stock as debate about whether acquisitions can push Salesforce’s AI strategy picked up. The bounce came after a positive view of its $3.6 billion deal for Fin, which landed just a few days after KeyBanc cut the stock on worries about Agentforce.
14 July 2026
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GE Vernova’s Turbine Boom Is Real. The Stock’s Failed Breakout Tests a 40-Times Cash-Flow Bet

GE Vernova’s Turbine Boom Is Real. The Stock’s Failed Breakout Tests a 40-Times Cash-Flow Bet

GE Vernova shares fell 4.49% to $1,042.60 on Monday, closing below their 20-day moving average on the same day Zacks highlighted a move above that closely watched technical level. The reversal weakened the most visible short-term bullish signal surrounding a company whose turbine order book has been described as “sold out through 2030,” with GEV’s decline far exceeding the S&P 500’s 0.79% fall.
14 July 2026
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Palantir’s $400 Billion Target Is Closer Than It Looks — August 3 Earnings Carry the Harder Test

Palantir’s $400 Billion Target Is Closer Than It Looks — August 3 Earnings Carry the Harder Test

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13 July 2026
Palantir Technologies said after Monday’s U.S. market close that it will report second-quarter results on Aug. 3, also after the close, putting a firm date on the next test of its premium artificial-intelligence valuation. The shares finished 2.6% higher at $130.04 while the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.55%, an outperformance of about 4.1 percentage points.
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NIO Stock Jumps on Goldman Upgrade—The Real Bet Is a 15.2 Billion Yuan Cash-Flow Swing

NIO Stock Jumps on Goldman Upgrade—The Real Bet Is a 15.2 Billion Yuan Cash-Flow Swing

Shares of NIO Inc., traded in New York as American depositary receipts—U.S.-listed certificates representing foreign shares—closed 3.1% higher at $4.93 on Monday after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. upgraded the Chinese electric-vehicle maker to Buy with a $7 target. The headline is the rating change; the bigger investor bet sits in Goldman’s cash-flow forecast.
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AMD’s New $675 Target Hits as Market Watches 320 Million Shares

AMD’s New $675 Target Hits as Market Watches 320 Million Shares

Advanced Micro Devices dropped 3.7% in late trading Monday, despite TD Cowen’s Joshua Buchalter hiking his price target to $675 from $600. The new target, which is about 25.7% above the stock’s current $537 level, puts AMD’s estimated equity value near $1.10 trillion if you use the company’s 1.6306 billion shares outstanding. That’s about $225 billion higher than today’s value by the same measure.
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Super Micro Stock Looks Cheap—Until a Potential 28% Share-Count Hit Enters the Math

Super Micro Stock Looks Cheap—Until a Potential 28% Share-Count Hit Enters the Math

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13 July 2026
Super Micro Computer shares fell 3.2% to $27.41 in afternoon trading on Monday, below the $27.50 price set for its June common-stock offering. At 13.2 times trailing earnings, the stock looks inexpensive. Yet the base preferred conversion and a fully used $1.25 billion stock-sale program could add 24.6% to 28.1% to an illustrative pro forma basic share count, based on the offering terms and Monday’s price.
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IonQ Stock Slides 9% as Quantum Rout Erases $2.5 Billion — The Valuation Gap Investors May Be Missing

IonQ Stock Slides 9% as Quantum Rout Erases $2.5 Billion — The Valuation Gap Investors May Be Missing

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13 July 2026
IonQ Inc. fell 9.4% to $38.82 in Monday afternoon trading, leading a synchronized retreat in D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing and Quantum Computing Inc.. The four stocks erased an estimated $2.51 billion of market value by 1:53 p.m. EDT, with no fresh company-specific catalyst apparent.
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Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro price could jump $200, even as margins stay tight

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro price could jump $200, even as margins stay tight

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13 July 2026
Apple Inc. may have to bump up the average price of its next Pro Max phone by around $200 to cover higher costs, and even then could see a slightly lower gross margin compared to last year’s model, a Counterpoint Research estimate shows. The research firm is projecting the bill of materials for the 12GB, 1TB iPhone 18 Pro Max will go up by almost $300, before assembly, shipping or marketing.
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Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) tacks on $2.4 billion with cyber-demand premium stretching

Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) tacks on $2.4 billion with cyber-demand premium stretching

Okta, Inc. surged 10.0% to $153.55 in late Tuesday trading after International Business Machines Corp. said clients had slowed purchases because of broad cyber worries. Okta’s market cap jumped by about $2.44 billion. That’s about 76% of the midpoint in Okta’s fiscal 2027 revenue guidance. Investors are still spending on identity security, even as IBM flagged tighter software budgets.
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14 Jul
Lucid (NASDAQ:LCID) slump wipes out almost $1 billion, nearly equal to April funding

Lucid (NASDAQ:LCID) slump wipes out almost $1 billion, nearly equal to April funding

Lucid Group gave up around $948 million in market cap Tuesday after a report said its restructuring adviser was looking at a sale to private owners or a possible bankruptcy filing. That drop is close to 90% of the $1.05 billion capital package it announced in April, based on its last reported share count. The numbers aren’t a direct match, but they show investors moved fast to slash the value of Lucid’s new funding buffer.
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14 Jul
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Heads for $40 Billion Cash-Conversion Mark on July 29

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Heads for $40 Billion Cash-Conversion Mark on July 29

Microsoft heads toward its July 29 earnings with bulls saying the recent drop and lower valuation may clear the way for a bounce. The question is how quickly AI demand will show up in cash flow versus heavy spending. Management projects Q4 capital expenditures of more than $40 billion with revenue between $86.7 billion and $87.8 billion. That puts capex at least 45.8% of sales, using the midpoint. The market wants evidence.
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14 Jul
TeraWulf slides 8% after Anthropic lease faces $3.5B funding check

TeraWulf slides 8% after Anthropic lease faces $3.5B funding check

TeraWulf Inc. dropped 8.1% to $19.20 by Tuesday afternoon, sinking as low as $18.63, even while tech stocks benefited from softer inflation numbers. Volume was heavy, with more than 36.7 million shares changing hands by 1:16 p.m., already topping its usual daily pace. The disconnect raises questions for investors over how much AI revenue will flow to equity once construction debt is paid off. That’s the issue in focus.
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14 Jul
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) stock drops despite 15% profit beat as return target points to slower second half

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) stock drops despite 15% profit beat as return target points to slower second half

Citigroup Inc. shares fell 4.4% to $134.47 by 12:55 p.m. in New York on Tuesday, reversing an early gain of 2% even after the bank beat second-quarter profit estimates by about 15%. The roughly 6.4-percentage-point swing accelerated as management said a stronger business climate would also support more investment. Investors were trading the cost and return path ahead, not the quarter just reported.
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14 Jul
Dow Jones live: Small decline masks 936 points of single-stock swings

Dow Jones live: Small decline masks 936 points of single-stock swings

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 96.05 points, or 0.18%, to 52,402.59 at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, but the modest loss hid a much larger fight inside the index. International Business Machines, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase produced about 936 points of gross movement — gains and losses counted before they offset — based on near-noon share prices. The headline move understated the churn.
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14 Jul
NextCure stock surge puts cash payout and 1.21% Avere stake under the lens

NextCure stock surge puts cash payout and 1.21% Avere stake under the lens

NextCure, Inc. shares nearly tripled on Tuesday after the cancer-drug developer agreed to merge with privately held Avere Therapeutics and pair the transaction with a $320 million financing. Yet current holders are expected to own just 1.21% of the combined company, making the rally a wager on a possible cash distribution, a contingent-value right and a higher public valuation for Avere—not merely the financing headline.
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14 Jul
DP World’s Fujairah Port Plan Targets Jebel Ali’s 28% Share of Consolidated Volume

DP World’s Fujairah Port Plan Targets Jebel Ali’s 28% Share of Consolidated Volume

DP World’s reported Fujairah project targets a concentration masked by the port operator’s global scale: Jebel Ali handled 15.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, the standard container measure, in 2025. That was 27.8% of DP World’s 56.1 million consolidated TEUs, but only 16.7% of its 93.4 million gross network volume. The narrower measure gives the Dubai hub far more weight. The diversification story is less broad than the headline number suggests.
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14 Jul
2027 Social Security COLA: June CPI Drop Dims Odds for 3.8% Hike

2027 Social Security COLA: June CPI Drop Dims Odds for 3.8% Hike

June’s steep drop in inflation offered some relief to bond and stock investors, but it also put a 3.8% Social Security COLA for 2027 out of easier reach. The CPI-W index, which feeds into the benefit calculation, dropped 0.5% for the month to 327.075. If that level holds through Q3, the COLA would be closer to 3.1% than to 3.8%. The difference is what matters now.
14 Jul
ServiceNow stock slides as IBM budget warning turns July earnings into a core-growth test

ServiceNow stock slides as IBM budget warning turns July earnings into a core-growth test

ServiceNow Inc. fell 5.8% to $104.85 in early trading on Tuesday, erasing roughly $6.7 billion of market value, after International Business Machines Corp. warned that spending on AI servers and storage was squeezing software budgets. The move came even as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq opened higher. Investors are treating a hardware-spending shift as an immediate test of ServiceNow’s premium valuation.
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