Market Brief - After Hours

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, Meta capped off its best week since early 2024 on the back of a bullish AI cost-structure note, helping drive the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to weekly gains. Stablecoin issuer Circle also made history, winning trust bank approval to manage over $73 billion in USDC reserves directly. We break down the SK Hynix Nasdaq debut, Bitcoin's push toward multi-w...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, chip stocks powered a broad Wall Street rebound while gold and silver staged aggressive bounces, with silver up 2.8% and gold topping $4,122. Oil told a counterintuitive story, falling even as the U.S. carried out fresh strikes on Iran for a second straight day. We break down fresh jobs and housing data, a mixed session across Europe and Asia, and...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we break down a dramatic session on Wall Street after President Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over and U.S. forces struck back following attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices spiked, the Dow and S&P 500 slid, and Asian markets took an even harder hit, with South Korea tumbling into bear market territory. We also cover the Fed's divide...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we break down a violent AI and semiconductor selloff that dragged the Nasdaq down 1.2%, while South Korea's KOSPI triggered a circuit breaker after Samsung's stock fell despite a massive profit beat. Oil surged after Iran struck a tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, while gold and silver extended their slide into deeper technical downtrends. We also...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, the Dow notched its first-ever close above 53,000 as US stocks extended last week's rally, with tech and semiconductor names leading the charge. We break down a wave of corporate headlines, from Microsoft's job cuts to Dell's surprise White House boost, plus a scorching move in agriculture markets as weather threats hit crops on both sides of the A...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, a surprisingly weak June jobs report sends the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a fresh record close, even as a brutal semiconductor selloff drags the Nasdaq lower. We break down what the jobs miss means for the Federal Reserve, why chip stocks like Micron and Nvidia got hit so hard, and how Europe's DAX managed to hit a record high of its own. We a...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, Meta jumps 9% on plans to launch a cloud business, hammering specialized cloud providers Nebius and CoreWeave in the process. We break down a wild session on Wall Street where the Dow touched a fresh intraday record before Caterpillar's slide pulled it back, and semiconductor names gave back ground after their blistering first-half run. We also cov...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we cover Wall Street's historic close to the first half of 2026 — small caps just posted their best six-month run since 1991, and chip stocks powered the Dow to a fresh record. We dig into gold's newly formed death cross and what it signals for the bearish trend ahead, plus coffee's biggest single-day surge since 2023. We also cover record highs ac...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, the Dow closed above 52,000 for the first time as Alphabet made a blockbuster debut as the index's newest member. We break down the rally across the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, a fragile US-Iran ceasefire moving oil prices, and a consumer credit reading that's raising red flags. Plus, we cover EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and USD/CHF, the latest moves in...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, a New York Times report on a possible OpenAI IPO delay sends the Nasdaq to a fifth straight losing session and triggers a brutal selloff in chip stocks from Silicon Valley to Seoul. We track the damage across SoftBank, the Nikkei and South Korea's KOSPI, then pivot to a wild day for oil after US airstrikes near the Strait of Hormuz and a surprising...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, the Dow notched a record high even as the Nasdaq logged its worst losing streak since February, with Apple and Microsoft sliding on the back of fresh price hikes. We break down why Micron and Qualcomm are thriving from the very memory chip shortage squeezing Big Tech's margins, plus the PCE inflation print that kept the Fed's preferred gauge in foc...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we unpack a sweeping risk-off session that battered crypto and precious metals together. Bitcoin slid to a 20-month low while silver suffered a brutal double-digit-adjacent rout and gold knifed through a key psychological level. We break down oil's sharp retreat as tankers transit the Strait of Hormuz, the slide in Treasury yields, and a soft tape...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, a brutal global tech selloff tore through chip stocks and dragged markets red across three continents. We break down the violent unwind of the market's most crowded AI trades, the historic single-day crash in South Korea, and why the Dow somehow escaped almost untouched. We also dig into a stunning synchronized collapse in gold, silver and crypto,...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we unpack a split-personality session on Wall Street: the tech heavyweights dragged the Nasdaq lower while the Russell 2000 made history, crossing 3,000 for the first time ever. We dig into the AI talent exodus hitting Alphabet, a surprise rebound in chipmakers, and climbing Treasury yields ahead of Thursday's pivotal PCE inflation report. Across t...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, Wall Street stages a sharp comeback as Intel surges on a new domestic chip deal with Apple, sending the entire semiconductor sector to record highs just a day after a hawkish Fed rattled markets. At the same time, the crypto market suffers a brutal leverage shakeout, with nearly $190 million in long positions liquidated in a single hour. We break d...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we unpack a dramatic reversal that took the Dow from a fresh all-time intraday high to a 507-point loss after Kevin Warsh's first meeting as Fed chair. The hawkish dot plot, a surging dollar and rocketing Treasury yields turned a record session into a broad sell-off. In FX, the greenback dominated as EUR/USD and GBP/USD broke down hard and USD/CAD...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we unpack a split-screen session on Wall Street: the Dow powered to a historic record while a sharp chip selloff pulled the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower. We dig into the oil slide that triggered the rotation, the stunning post-IPO run that briefly vaulted SpaceX above Microsoft and Amazon, and the multi-billion-dollar acquisition it announced right...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, we unpack a historic session that drove the Dow to a record 51,671 and sent stocks, gold and Bitcoin surging together. The Nasdaq posted its strongest day in months while gold rebounded hard off its lows and Bitcoin reclaimed a key level on a massive volume spike. We also dig into the global picture, with the Nikkei breaking a record for the first...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, SpaceX pulls off the biggest IPO in history, and the fallout reshapes everything from large-cap tech to the space sector. We dig into what Elon Musk's first trillion means for markets and why some of Wall Street's biggest names actually closed in the red on one of the most euphoric trading days in years. We also cover a major geopolitical shift tha...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, wholesale inflation just came in at its hottest level in three years — a 1.1% monthly jump with an annual rate of 6.5%, well above what economists were expecting. Energy prices were the engine behind the surge, and yet equities rallied hard, with the Dow adding over 900 points and the Nasdaq climbing 2.5%. We break down what's driving the disconnec...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, US forces launched airstrikes on Iran after markets closed — capping a session in which the Dow had already shed 953 points, the S&P 500 dropped 1.6%, and headline CPI came in at 4.2% for the first time in three years. We dig into what the core inflation read means for the Fed, why the semiconductor sector is bleeding for the fourth time in fiv...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, gold and silver endured a brutal session while Bitcoin slid to a level where more than half of its circulating supply is now in the red — a signal that has historically marked a bear-market floor. We also break down why the Monday chip rebound fell apart, what oil's sharp drop on Strait of Hormuz relief means for energy stocks, and why the looming...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, the semiconductor sector staged a dramatic comeback after its worst session in years, with Intel surging on a major Google deal and Micron reclaiming a large slice of Friday's losses. The Middle East remained a live threat as Iranian strikes sent oil spiking before a last-minute Trump intervention steadied the ceasefire — for now. We also cover a w...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, a much hotter-than-expected US jobs report sent shockwaves through global markets, triggering a violent tech sell-off and a surge in Treasury yields. The Nasdaq suffered its worst single-day decline in over a year, with semiconductor names leading the carnage, while precious metals took a brutal hit as the dollar surged. We also cover the major tec...

On today's episode of Market Brief – After Hours, the Dow Jones surges 875 points to a fresh record at 51,562 as investors rotate hard out of semiconductors and AI names — with Broadcom's revenue miss dragging the Nasdaq into the red and sparking heavy losses across chip stocks. We dig into whether this is a healthy pause or the start of something more serious for the AI trade, and cover oil's sur...