Live Stock News: Valentine's Day Sees Market Blowing Kisses to Record Highs

Happy Friday, investors!
It's finally Friday, February 14th. It's Valentine's Day, and the market is so close to all-time highs that it's nearly within kissing distance. It was another long week of earnings and political news, but how did the market price it all in? Let's check the Live Stock News and find out!

– $SoundHound AI (SOUN.US)$ fell a dramatic 28% after a Friday $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ 13F filing showed the AI chip giant cut its entire stake in the voice-based tech firm.

– $Arm Holdings (ARM.US)$ shares also sank after the same filing showed Nvidia cut its stake by 44% to 1.1 million shares.

– Nvidia did buy a stake in $WeRide (WRD.US)$, which flew more than 80%.

– $Intel (INTC.US)$ fell back 2% after a four-day winning streak that still sees the chip stock up 26%. It all started when Vice President JD Vance said American chip manufacturing would be the best in the world, and investors hope that means Intel and its new CEO will try to take center stage like it's the '80s again.

– $Coinbase (COIN.US)$ fell back 7% after its earnings could not keep up with trading app rival $Robinhood (HOOD.US)$.

– $Crude Oil Futures (APR5) (CLmain.US)$ held around $70/barrel, with no update about the conflict in Ukraine.

– Gold pulled back from nearly hitting all-time highs Thursday night.

– $Bitcoin (BTC.CC)$ stayed near $97,000, a level it has floated around for about ten straight days.

Overall, the market was sideways Friday, with the S&P 500 having kissed close to all-time highs. Just past 1:40 pm ET, the:

– $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ traded up 0.14%

– $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ fell 0.15%

– $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ climbed 0.34%

In macro:
U.S. retail sales fell at the fastest rate in January as it has since last year, a seasonal post-Santa slump. Import and export price indices were not much changed from expectations, but we will be watching both as Trump talks tariffs.