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Snap (Nasdaq: SNAP) has a new voice in its ear. Activist investor Irenic Capital has built a stake in the social media platform and is turning up the heat for improvements to its financial and operating performance, per Bloomberg. The stock is up 13% on the day.
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Nike (NYSE: NKE) reports earnings after the closing bell today. The stock is up 1.8% in the lead-up to its report. Earlier this month, Barclays upgraded shares to “overweight” while Oppenheimer analysts reiterated their “outperform” on NKE shares.
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With one of the toughest quarters for the stock market almost behind, investors are hoping it doesn’t get any worse. Today the markets are seeing the glass half full despite the ongoing Mideast conflict, with all three of the major stock market averages higher out of the gate. Big Tech stocks including Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) are all up between 1-3% today.
Oil prices are not relenting, with Brent Crude soaring 55% this month alone while WTI is now also hovering above the $100 per barrel threshold, a level it hasn’t seen in four years. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is down 8.2%.
According to a report in Business Insider, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has started laying off employees as the tech giant looks to cut costs amid a bruising year for software stocks. The cuts come with Oracle’s stock down nearly 30% in 2026, caught in the broader AI-driven selloff hammering the SaaS sector.
Here’s a look at where things stand as of morning trading:
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 47,755 Up 1.2%
Nasdaq Composite: 21,066 Up 1.3%
S&P 500: 6,415 Up 1.1%
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Marvell Technology (Nasdaq: MRVL) is soaring after landing a $2 billion capital injection from AI darling Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA), part of a sweeping strategic partnership spanning NVLink Fusion, silicon photonics, and AI-RAN technology for telecom networks. For Marvell, it doesn’t get much better than having the hottest name in AI put $2 billion behind you.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is ditching traditional in-flight Wi-Fi for something out of this world — the carrier has agreed to install Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) Project Kuiper satellite internet service on 500 aircraft starting in 2028, per Bloomberg.
Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL), is now offering 24/7 autonomous rides to and from San Antonio Airport — its latest expansion as the robotaxi race heats up.
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