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NEW YORK, July 9, 2026, 12:09 EDT Opendoor shares rose about 11% near midday, adding roughly $510 million in market value, a large move without a fresh company release showing on its investor page after late May. The rally landed the same day U.S. existing-home sales fell in June, keeping the stock tied to a hard question: can faster home turns offset a still-sticky housing market? Opendoor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPEN) jumped 11.1% to $5.32 in late-morning trading on Thursday, adding about $510 million in market value — the stock price times shares outstanding — as buyers paid up for a housing-tech
https://ts2.tech/en/opendoor-stock-is-jumping-again-the-quiet-510-million-bet-behind-opens-rally/
New York, July 9, 2026, 08:01 (EDT) Microsoft stock traded down in premarket, after dropping 1.41% on Wednesday. The company scheduled its fiscal Q4 results for July 29. Azure, Copilot, and AI spending are expected to get attention again. Nasdaq futures ticked up, suggesting the early move was more about Microsoft than the broader index. Microsoft shares were lower before the bell Thursday, as the focus shifted to the company’s earnings due in late July and how much it is spending on AI. The stock traded at $377.67 at 7:42 a.m. EDT, down 1.48%, after closing at $383.34 on Wednesday, Wall
https://ts2.tech/en/microsoft-stock-dips-ahead-of-ai-earnings-test/
New York, July 9, 2026, 08:02 (EDT) Alphabet Class A shares closed Wednesday at $361.92, down 1.39%. U.S. regular trading was set to open at 9:30 a.m. EDT. Google has appealed an Indian court ruling involving keyword ads, saying the case could have an impact on competition in digital advertising. U.S. stock futures traded higher ahead of the open, though concerns over oil prices, interest rates and AI spending kept pressure on big tech stocks. Google parent Alphabet has appealed an Indian court decision that could change the way firms buy search ads in India. The case is set to be
https://ts2.tech/en/google-stock-in-focus-with-india-ads-battle-ahead-of-nasdaq-open/
New York, July 9, 2026, 05:37 (EDT) U.S. exchanges planned a normal trading day Thursday. NYSE core trading starts at 9:30 a.m. ET. (New York Stock Exchange) Baker Hughes and Novartis announced more U.S. layoffs, as Microsoft and Coursera kept tech job restructuring on the table. (Houston Chronicle) AI was listed in 31% of U.S. job cut announcements in June, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks layoffs. The firm said artificial intelligence software that automates certain work was a factor. (challengergray.com) Job cuts were back in the market spotlight Thursday as U.S.-listed firms like Baker Hughes and Novartis announced
https://ts2.tech/en/baker-hughes-novartis-microsoft-make-deeper-cuts-as-layoff-worries-mount/
New York, July 8, 2026, 18:02 (EDT) Morgan Stanley lifted its bull-case target on Rocket Lab to $293, up from $185, though the stock remained far off recent highs. Rocket Lab was the biggest loser among space names Tuesday, but shares were flat late Wednesday. Investors are looking at the $8 billion Iridium deal and Space Force mission wins, but the stock’s high valuation and execution risk on Neutron are in focus. Morgan Stanley raised its best-case price target for Rocket Lab to $293 on Wednesday. The move came a day after Rocket Lab shares were among the biggest losers in
https://ts2.tech/en/rocket-lab-stock-bull-case-set-at-293-but-theres-a-catch/
New York, July 10, 2026, 13:08 EDT Moderna Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) shares fell 11.3% to $67.91 at 12:53 p.m. EDT on Friday, erasing about $3.4 billion in market value. The vaccine maker had traded as high as $78.47, leaving the stock 13.5% below its intraday peak. The decline puts a sharper focus on Thursday’s European Union announcement. Six countries may order as many as 24 million doses of Moderna’s mRESVIA respiratory syncytial virus vaccine over four years, but the contract sets no minimum purchase. The Commission disclosed neither a price nor a total contract value; a framework agreement sets terms for later
https://ts2.tech/en/moderna-stock-sinks-11-its-24-million-dose-eu-deal-has-a-no-minimum-catch/
NEW YORK, July 10, 2026, 12:05 EDT The Dow Jones Industrial Average shook off a 221-point slide early Friday, up 119 points by midday in a swing of about 340 points. Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) together pushed the index by an estimated 106 points, close to 90% of the advance, with the Dow at 52,606.76, up 0.23%, based on data delayed at least 15 minutes. (Reuters) This concentration is key because the Dow is price-weighted. A company’s share price, not its market cap, sets its sway on the index. A $1 move from any stock in the Dow shifts the
https://ts2.tech/en/dow-jones-live-two-stocks-fuel-340-point-swing/
New York, July 10, 2026, 10:04 (EDT) Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) dropped 2.5% to $109.68 at the start of Friday’s session, lagging behind the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX), which slipped 0.6%. Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) added 1.3% while Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) was up 1.7%. Intel was alone in the red as chip stocks traded mixed. The gap matters as Intel heads into its next earnings. The company has to show that its planned manufacturing rebound will line up with sales to outside clients. More of the bull case now comes down to two things: getting stronger in server chips and building up its
https://ts2.tech/en/intel-nasdaqintc-stock-falls-even-as-foundry-sales-jump-461/
New York, July 10, 2026, 10:12 EDT SK hynix Inc. (NASDAQ:SKHYV) attracted filings from at least 10 fund managers for leveraged or inverse single-stock exchange-traded funds before its first U.S. trade, after pricing a $26.5 billion sale of American depositary receipts, or ADRs — U.S.-traded certificates representing foreign shares — at $149. The price was 2.7% above the three-day average for its Seoul shares; underwriters earned nearly $260 million, or 0.97% of the proceeds. (Reuters) The rush matters because the listing is already spawning a second layer of leverage around the equity, not merely widening SK Hynix’s shareholder base. Eos Energy
https://ts2.tech/en/sk-hynixs-26-5-billion-nasdaq-debut-reveals-the-hidden-price-investors-pay-for-access/
London, July 10, 2026, 13:31 (BST) Lloyds Banking Group (LON:LLOY) rose 0.76% to 112.55 pence by 13:20 BST on Friday, with the stock trading almost exactly at the average price paid during the bank’s latest three-day repurchase burst. The gain outpaced two large UK banking peers. (Google) Bank Share price Friday move Lloyds Banking Group (LON:LLOY) 112.55p +0.76% Barclays (LON:BARC) 509.40p +0.47% NatWest Group (LON:NWG) 665.00p +0.30% Regulatory filings show Lloyds bought 24 million shares from Tuesday through Thursday at a combined volume-weighted average price, or VWAP, of 112.8221p. VWAP is an average that gives greater weight to larger trades. The
https://ts2.tech/en/lloyds-banking-group-lonlloy-share-price-rises-today-the-24-million-share-clue-investors-may-be-missing/
New York, July 10, 2026, 08:30 EDT Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) rose 0.2% in Friday’s premarket after a report said the company is looking at always-on live channels and service bundles to offset sluggish viewer engagement. The move comes with Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.3% and Netflix’s Q2 earnings due in six days. (The Wall Street Journal) Timing is key here. Netflix finished Thursday at $75.47, just 6.5% over its 52-week low and down 40.9% from its 52-week high. Engagement — meaning how much and how often people watch — is tied to both keeping members and selling ads, so it’s both a
https://ts2.tech/en/netflix-stock-gains-as-live-tv-push-draws-focus-to-cash-yield/
New York, July 10, 2026, 07:38 EDT Keel Infrastructure Corp. (NASDAQ:KEEL) rose 1.7% to $4.92 in premarket trading on Friday, after gaining 6.1% to $4.84 in the previous session. The shares have recovered 9.0% over two days, though they remain about 34% below the intraday peak of $7.37 reached on June 22. Nasdaq’s regular session had not yet opened. (Google) The pressing question is not whether Keel controls enough potential power. It is how much of that power investors should count before the company signs long-term data-center leases. Based on Thursday’s roughly $2.93 billion market value, a simple equity-value-per-megawatt calculation —
https://ts2.tech/en/keel-stock-extends-rebound-but-a-4-5-fold-valuation-gap-shows-what-investors-are-really-buying/
New York, July 10, 2026, 07:39 EDT Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) stock traded up nearly 2% in premarket action Friday. That builds on Thursday’s 2.65% jump to $144.22, which came even after S&P Global Ratings pushed the company’s credit rating down to BBB-, just above junk. Investors kept buying the shares, even as bond investors asked for more yield. (MarketWatch) It’s important because Oracle’s AI infrastructure push is leaning more on outside funding. At Thursday’s close, a $20 billion at-the-market share sale would mean about 138.7 million new shares, sold into the open market in steps. That would add 4.8% to the June
https://ts2.tech/en/oracle-nyseorcl-gains-after-downgrade-faces-up-to-4-8-share-boost-if-20b-sale-clears/
HELSINKI, July 10, 2026, 14:43 (EEST) Nokia (HEL:NOKIA) traded down 0.5% at €11.14 as of 14:33 EEST Friday, giving up some ground while the OMX Helsinki 25 index moved up 0.5%. The stock had jumped 9.6% in the last session but is still up about 101% so far this year. (Google) Nokia handed out 43.55 million treasury shares to staff in its equity incentive plans on Thursday. The block, at Friday’s price, was valued at about €485 million. Treasury shares are company-held and not available for trading, so by giving these existing shares, Nokia kept the total share count steady. (Nokia
https://ts2.tech/en/nokia-shares-double-e696-million-change-in-ownership-brings-new-ai-test/
NEW YORK, July 9, 2026, 17:02 EDT Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (NYSE:HPE) jumped 9.94% to $49.11 on Thursday, but the sharper investor read was not the price alone. Using the listed 1.32 billion shares outstanding, the $4.44 gain implied roughly $5.9 billion of added equity value, close to the company’s more than $6.3 billion AI backlog — orders booked but not yet turned into revenue. Volume was almost exactly in line with its 65-day average, and the stock still sat well below its $64.25 52-week high. (MarketWatch) That is why the move matters now. HPE is no longer being traded only
https://ts2.tech/en/hpe-stocks-10-jump-has-a-hidden-ai-backlog-math-problem/
New York, July 10, 2026, 19:31 (EDT) Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) closed 0.48% lower at $357.18 on Friday, while the Nasdaq Composite gained about 0.3%. The move was modest, but it came as two regulatory developments landed on businesses that carry most of the company’s growth case. (The Wall Street Journal) The units containing the affected activities—Google Search and Google Cloud—generated $80.4 billion, or 73.2%, of Alphabet’s first-quarter revenue. One development concerns how Google sells search ads in India; the other brings parts of its UK cloud operation under direct financial-sector supervision. Alphabet reports second-quarter results on July 22. (SEC) In India,
https://ts2.tech/en/google-stock-slips-new-rules-reach-units-behind-73-of-alphabet-sales/
New York, July 10, 2026, 19:32 (EDT) Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) closed Friday almost flat, after an environmental report showed total greenhouse-gas emissions rose 25% in fiscal 2025, mainly on new data centers for AI. (cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com) Shares ended the day up 0.19% at $385.10, moving in a 2.7% band, and finished 1.38% below last week’s close. (The Wall Street Journal) The split is having an impact now. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.7% this week and the S&P 500 added 1.2%. Microsoft now trails the Nasdaq by roughly 3.1 percentage points. Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, said the next
https://ts2.tech/en/microsoft-shares-unchanged-as-new-ai-data-arrives/
NEW YORK, July 10, 2026, 19:32 EDT Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) sued OpenAI and two former employees on Friday, alleging a coordinated effort to take trade secrets and speed the ChatGPT maker’s push into consumer hardware. The report crossed after the regular U.S. close, shifting the AI contest from software integration to control of the next consumer device. “Apple sees OpenAI moving from partner to potential rival,” PP Foresight analyst Paolo Pescatore said; OpenAI did not immediately respond. (Reuters) Shares closed at $315.32, down 0.28%, and traded at $315.01 at 7:28 p.m. EDT. FactSet’s average analyst target was $317.88, leaving just 0.8% implied
https://ts2.tech/en/apple-nasdaqaapl-stock-sits-0-8-below-wall-streets-average-target-then-came-the-openai-lawsuit/
New York, July 10, 2026, 19:13 (EDT) XRP traded at $1.059 late Friday, with U.S. fund numbers drawing more attention. The top three U.S. spot XRP ETFs by total net inflow have $810.66 million in net assets, compared to $1.374 billion in total subscriptions. That’s a $563.40 million gap between fund flows and assets. (SoSoValue) Why it matters now: current assets cover only about 59 cents for every dollar of total net inflow in these funds. This isn’t a direct measure of holder losses — seed money, fees, redemptions, and when people bought in all change the math — but it’s
https://ts2.tech/en/xrp-fails-to-hold-1-10-top-etf-holdings-now-563m-lower/
NEW YORK, July 10, 2026, 18:05 (EDT) QXO, Inc. (NYSE:QXO) closed Friday at $14.99, up 2.8%. A fresh filing offered the most detail so far on the numbers behind its recent acquisitions. Most of the planned rise in adjusted EBITDA by 2030 needs to come from legacy Beacon, which is set to generate about two-thirds of the increase. (Investing.com) Timing is key here. QXO says it has no plans for a stock sale soon and will turn to integration, free cash flow and paying down debt once the TopBuild deal closes on July 1. The stock closed Friday 37% off the
https://ts2.tech/en/qxo-shares-up-after-filing-points-to-beacons-share-of-2030-ebitda-gains/
New York, July 10, 2026, 17:10 (EDT) Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) slipped 0.69% to finish at $245.34 Friday after a filing on July 9 locked in terms for its new bond issue. Amazon’s $25 billion bond has $13.5 billion of debt due in 2036 or later, which is 54% of the total, as buyers continue to shed longer AI-linked credit. The seven fixed-rate slices carry annual coupon payments totaling $1.306 billion — about 6% above Amazon’s trailing free cash flow of $1.232 billion, which is operating cash after capex. (MarketWatch) The gap is clear but not dramatic. Amazon had $143.1 billion in
https://ts2.tech/en/amazon-stock-slips-as-over-half-of-ai-linked-debt-hits-riskier-part-of-bond-market/