Although Nvidia is Wall Street’s largest publicly traded company, no member of the “Magnificent Seven” paved the way for the stock market quite like Apple (AAPL +1.36%). Since current CEO Tim Cook took over for Steve Jobs in August 2011,
AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC), a theatrical motion picture exhibition and cinema operations company, closed at $1.74, down 7.93%. Investors are monitoring the upcoming earnings webcast and summer box office performance closely.
S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) closed at 7,537.43,
BlackRock’s iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, ticker IEMG, has outpaced Vanguard’s FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, ticker VWO, by roughly 16 percentage points year-to-date through mid-May 2026. The reason is almost entirely one country: South Korea.
MSCI classifies South Korea as an emerging market.
Dave Nadig, President & Director of Research at ETF.com and Sumit Roy, Senior ETF Analyst at ETF.com, were joined in this week’s ETF Zoo by Cinthia Murphy, Director of Research at TMX VettaFi; Jeffrey Ptak, Managing Director at Morningstar; and Todd Sohn, Senior ETF &
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The S&P 500 ended 0.8% higher, while the Nasdaq 100 added 1.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%.
Nvidia Corp. said “our road map is intact” after a report on server delays.
SK Hynix Inc.
Nvidia stock trades near $195, and it has quietly become the worst performer in its own chip group in 2026.
The slide comes as investors question whether the AI boom that powered Nvidia can keep paying off.
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The tech-heavy Nasdaq led the way higher, jumping 288.49 points or 1.1 percent to 26,121.16. The S&P 500 also advanced 54.19 points or 0.7 percent to 7,537.43,
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Major stock indexes started the week higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting intraday and closing records, as AI-tied shares led the charge.
While the Nasdaq led the gains on Monday, it was the Dow Jones breaking records, closing up 0.3% above 53,000 points for the first time at 53,055 points. The Nasdaq was up 1.15 at 26,121 points while the S&P 500 was up 0.7% at 7,537 points.
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TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF), a Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) mining and AI data center infrastructure provider, closed at $22.21, up 4.86%. The company announced a lease to Anthropic and a joint-venture data center sale that could unlock long-term AI infrastructure revenue.
Trading volume reached 73.3 million shares, coming in about 135% above its three-month average of 31.2 million shares.
