Regular session
$6.97
+12.50%open $6.20
A 12.5% intraday run to $6.98 adds roughly $600 million of market value to this $5.4 billion eVTOL name in a single session. Moves this size rarely hold cleanly, so the close is the number that matters.
You've hidden all cards
Regular session
$220.50
+24.27%open $177.44
A 24% intraday jump to $220.50 is the kind of single-session move a $41B enterprise software name almost never makes. Whether it holds into the close is the question for anyone sitting on the position.
Memory Stocks Stay Strong With Sandisk, SK Hynix, and Western Digital Leading the Storage Stack
A Korea-sparked overnight surge lit the fuse, but SanDisk’s investor day dropped on top of an already-moving sector with some of these names still sitting deep in the red from last month. Here is what is actually driving the storage stack today and whether the momentum holds.
JEPI Has a Bond-Fund Cousin Almost Nobody Talks About — It Pays ~6% Monthly With a Tenth of the Drama
JEPI has a quieter JPMorgan sibling sitting in the bond market that most income investors have never looked at, and it pays monthly with a fraction of the equity drama. The real question is whether JEPI holders are using an equity fund to do a job it was never built for.
Can Retirees Trust PDI's 15.8% Monthly Payout? PIMCO's Premium Problem, Explained
PIMCO’s flagship income fund has mailed the same check every month since 2020 through bond crashes and rate spikes, yet analysts are raising red flags about what is actually funding that payout.
Thompson Research's Kathryn Thompson Says AI Reindustrialization Needs $5 Trillion, but Power and Financing Are the Real Bottleneck
Kathryn Thompson, Partner and CEO of Thompson Research Group, appeared on CNBC on Thursday morning to help reframe the way investors think about AI. Her argument: markets are obsessing over near-term chip pricing while missing a historically massive industrial rebuild sitting be…
Sponsored
Are You Ready To Retire, Or Years Behind?
Most Americans suspect they're behind on retirement and never find out. Advisor.com's free matching tool pairs you in about three minutes with a vetted fiduciary advisor who can help you with investing, taxes, retirement, estate planning, and more. No minimums. No sales call. Find out where you stand.
FANGDiamondback Energy
$309M$1.10 per share
- 2EXEExpand Energy$0.58/sh$138M
- 3VNOMViper Energy$0.67/sh$131M
- 4SFDSmithfield Foods$0.31/sh$123M
- 5ZIONZions Bancorporation$0.48/sh$70.1M
Diamondback Energy is paying out $309 million to shareholders on August 20, at $1.10 a share, the biggest cash payment of today's group. Oil and gas names take three of the top five spots, with Smithfield Foods and Zions Bancorporation rounding out the list.
I've Been Buying Fidelity's Gigantic FXAIX Fund For Six Years Straight Before Realizing The True Cost
Six years of automated monthly purchases into one of the world’s largest index funds felt like a smart, low-cost habit until a closer look at what taxable account holders actually owe each December changed the math entirely.
Regular session
$1541.66
+14.78%open $1343.20
A 14.8% single-session jump to $1,541.66 is a rare magnitude for a $204 billion chipmaker, adding roughly a quarter of a trillion-dollar tier move in hours. Whether the stock holds above the $1,343 open is the level that matters from here.
MIDDAY
U.S. Markets
- S&P 500+0.40%
- Dow Jones Industrial Average+0.14%
- Nasdaq Composite+0.42%
Tech is doing the heavy lifting again at midday, with the Nasdaq up 0.42% and the Dow trailing at less than a third of that. If the afternoon holds, breadth stays narrow and growth names keep setting the tone into the close.
CLOSING BELL
Europe
- 🇬🇧 FTSE 100-0.40%
- 🇩🇪 DAX+0.61%
- 🇫🇷 CAC 40-0.13%
Europe closed split: German equities gained 0.6% while London finished at 10,789.93. Treating "European exposure" as one trade means missing the divergence inside it.
The Hidden Costs of Sun City, Arizona Nobody Mentions Until You Move In
Sun City looks like a retirement bargain on Zillow, but the real cost of buying there lives across four separate documents that never appear on a listing. Before you sign, you need to know what escrow will actually collect.
