Stock Market News Today, 8/19/25 – U.S. Stock Futures Slip
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Live Updates Live Coverage Has Ended Monday Wrap-up 4:11 pm The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF closed at 591.36 Monday, down 0.04%. BREAKING NEWS: INTEL 12:32 pm Bloomberg just reported — literal seconds ago — that the Trump Administration is discussing taking a 10% stake in Intel (Nasdaq: INTC).
The U.S. stock market on Tuesday rose toward records after data suggested inflation in July was a touch better than economists expected.
President Trump's tariffs continue to affect global markets and the economy. Follow for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.
Nvidia ( NVDA) may be the market's biggest AI stock, but institutional investors are still shying away. "NVDA is now the most under-owned large-cap tech stock," Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring wrote in a note.
Zoom Communications (NASDAQ: ZM) is slated to report its Q2 results on Thursday, August 21, 2025. Over the last five years, Zoom’s stock posted a negative one-day move after earnings 74% of the time. Those negative moves had a median of -7.7% and reached a maximum of -16.7%.
In a stock market obsessed with artificial intelligence, Amazon.com Inc. is losing ground.The company’s shares have been lagging the Nasdaq 100 Index for most of the year, and the gap has only widened in the two weeks since Amazon’s July 31 earnings disappointment.
A company with a chatbot that often gets things wrong is somehow about to become the largest unicorn earth has ever seen. That does feel frothy.
Currently, consensus calls for earnings per share of $2.66 on revenue of $3.75 billion for the upcoming quarter.
Investors are tracking talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war and awaiting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole at the end of the week.
Even the strongest bull market has an Achilles’ heel, and this one might even have two. Stocks were edging lower to start the week, but the S&P 500 was still up nearly 10% since the start of 2025, just a hair’s breadth below last week’s record close of 6468.