Happy trading, it is Tuesday, September 17th. The market climbed, and the S&P 500 hit an all-time Tuesday just past 10:45 am ET, one day before the most exciting FOMC monetary policy meetings for years, with investor hype expecting at least the first 25 bp rate cut -0.25%.
My name is Kevin Travers; here are stories about the U.S. stock market today.
$Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.US)$ rose 6%, the highest on the S&P 500 after Ban...

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It's once again time for the annual major event—the new iPhone launch from Apple. This year's iPhone might introduce "Apple Intelligence," which has been highly anticipated by many analysts. In fact, Citi analysts have listed Apple as their "Top AI Pick" for 2025.
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Financial institutions are placing millions of dollars in bullish option positions in $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, $Broadcom (AVGO.US)$, $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ and $Arm Holdings (ARM.US)$ as capital spending on chips that power artificial intelligence applications remain strong.
The momentum that's pushing up demand for central processing units (CPU), graphic processing unit (GPUs) and networking chips used in artifi...

JPMorgan's options market is seeing increased volatility just days before the largest US bank report earnings, with the heaviest trading seen in call options with strike prices above the current stock price.
Shares of the financial giant climbed 21% this year, outpacing the S&P 500 index, as the company continued to grow earnings and boost dividends. $JPMorgan (JPM.US)$ has shown its financial might even amid tighter government regulat...

The race to $4 trillion is on. $Apple (AAPL.US)$, $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$and $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$are in the $3 trillion club. So, which technology behemoth can adapt to keep growth rates elevated enough to keep the good times going?
We believe over the next year the race to $4 Trillion Market Cap in tech will be front and center between Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft," wrote Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives in a research note.
Nvidia?
Nvidia could reach a $4 tril...

Investors and traders are piling on $Tesla (TSLA.US)$call options that give the holder the right to buy the stock at $150 by the end of next week after the electric vehicle maker's second quarter deliveries beat analysts' estimates.
More than 45,000 of such calls traded hands as of 12:22 p.m. in New York Tuesday, almost 10 times its open interest. That makes the $150 calls the most active contract expiring next week. Tradi...

Arm Holdings saw its heaviest stock options volume in almost two months on Friday after $Nasdaq (NDAQ.US)$ announced a day earlier that it will be added to the $NASDAQ 100 Index (.NDX.US)$ on June 24.
$Arm Holdings (ARM.US)$ shares touched an intra-day all-time high of $167.69, before pulling back as the wider stock market paused its record-breaking rally for the company that designs chips and other CPU products. The stock c...