Oil Tops $100, Meta and Cloudflare Jump On AI Breakthroughs: Stock Market Today
Brent crude pushes above $100 a barrel for the first time since July as US-Iran strikes escalated, equities slip broadly.
Stocks · News reference
Reference Details
Poisar stores the source's headline, summary and market tags for reference. Reporting and full article text remain with the original publisher.
Keep reading
Brent crude pushes above $100 a barrel for the first time since July as US-Iran strikes escalated, equities slip broadly.
A blowout August jobs report pushed traders to price a coin-flip chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month, dragging the S&P 500 and Dow lower by midday Friday.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has outperformed its industry with a 25.9% gain over three months, driven by strong AI infrastructure demand. The company reported $2.4 billion in AI Systems orders and a record $7.6 billion total AI backlog in Q3 fiscal 2026. Cloud & AI revenues rose 25% with server revenues jumping 35%, while gross margins expanded to 40.4% and operating profit grew 155%. Despite the stock appreciation, HPE trades at a discount with a forward P/S ratio of 1.5 versus the industry average of 4.81, prompting analysts to recommend accumulation.
NRAM joins the growing memory ETF trade as AI accelerators demand more HBM and memory capacity from chipmakers.
Sandisk (SNDK) stock fell ~4% amid a tech sell-off. Explore Cramer’s insights, technical analysis, and analyst ratings.