Market Overview

Global stocks are pointing mostly up currently ahead of University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment report today at 16:00 CET. Wall Street resumed advancing on Thursday. Apple shares slid 0.21% after reports that shareholders, mostly union pension funds, who were suing Mark Zuckerberg and other company leaders for illegal user data harvesting operation had reached a settlement agreement, ending a $8 billion trial, Amazon shares rose 2.4% outperforming market on Thursday.

Global equity indexes are trading mostly higher currently ahead of US unemployment claims and retail sales reports at 14:30 CET today after Wall Street ended higher on Wednesday. Microsoft shares slipped 0.04% underperforming market as Jefferies reaffirmed its “Buy” rating on software giant’s stock and maintained its $600 price target while calling the company a “top AI winner,” Apple shares rose 0.5% on Wednesday while research firm LightShed Partners suggested in a recent note to clients that iPhone maker’s CEO Tim Cook should step aside in light of the company’s woes, in AI especially.

Global equity indexes are pointing in opposite directions currently after Wall Street closed mixed on Tuesday. Microsoft shares added 0.56% while Wells Fargo raised its price target on Microsoft to $600 from $585 on Tuesday and maintained an “Overweight” rating on the stock , Nvidia shares rallied 4.0% outperforming market as Mizuho raised its price target on Nvidia to $192.00 from $185.00 while it maintained an “Outperform” rating after reports Trump administration has decided to allow Nvidia and other AI accelerator providers to resume AI GPU shipments into China.

Global equity indexes are trading mostly up currently ahead of US inflation report at 14:30 CET after Wall Street ended at fresh records on Monday. Tesla shares gained 1.08% while Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated its “Overweight” rating on Tesla with a price target of $355.00 despite recent delivery challenges, Microsoft shares slipped 0.06% underperforming market on Monday despite Melius Research reiterating its “Buy” rating on Microsoft stock and raising the price target to $595.00 from $520.00.

Equity indexes are trading in different directions currently after president Trump over the weekend announced 30% tariffs on Mexico and the European Union, effective August 1. Wall Street finished lower on Friday. Nvidia shares rose 0.5% outperforming market amid reports Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold roughly $36.4 million worth of stock in the leading artificial intelligence chipmaker while still holding more than 858 million shares of Nvidia, Microsoft shares added 0.3% on Friday.

Global equity indexes are pointing mostly up currently after Wall Street closed mixed on Tuesday. Tesla shares dropped 5.34% underperforming market as president Trump wrote US ‘’ .. might have to put DOGE on Elon..” as “Elon may get more subsidies than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” Apple shares rose 1.29% as Jefferies upgraded Apple stock rating from “Underperform” to “Hold” and raised its price target to $188.32 from $170.62.

Global equity indexes are trading mixed currently after Wall Street ended at fresh records on Monday. Tesla shares fell 1.8% underperforming market as Musk on Saturday called president Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” “utterly insane” and wrote on X that lawmakers who had campaigned on cutting spending but backed the bill “ will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” Apple shares rose 2.0% on Monday amid reports that the tech giant is considering using external AI technology from Anthropic and OpenAI to power its Siri voice assistant.

Equity indexes are trading mostly up currently after Wall Street extended gains on Friday. Nvidia shares rose 1.76% amid reports insiders at artificial intelligence chipmaker have sold more than $1 billion in stock over the last year as the stock surged, Microsoft shares slid 0.3% underperforming market while Morgan Stanley reiterated the stock as “Overweight” and raised its price target to $530 per share from $482 the previous day.

Global stocks are pointing in opposite directions currently ahead of Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report today at 14:30 CET. Wall Street resumed advancing on Thursday. Apple shares slid 0.28% while UBS maintained its “Neutral” rating and $210.00 price target on Apple as the iPhone maker reportedly considers acquiring or partnering with Perplexity AI, Amazon shares rose 2.4% outperforming market on Thursday.

Global equity indexes are trading mostly higher currently ahead of US unemployment claims report at 14:30 CET today after Wall Street ended mixed on Wednesday. Nvidia shares rallied 4.3% outperforming market and market valuation rising to $3.76 trillion – over market capitalizations of Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants while Loop Capital raised Nvidia’s price target from $175 to $250, Tesla shares lost 3.8% on Wednesday after reports that company’s car sales sank again in Europe in May.