🚀 Market Movers Alert: Warner Bros Discovery Soars, Rocket Lab Launches Gains, Steel Dynamics Forges Ahead
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Wall Street's spinning like a roulette wheel today—while traditional investors sweat over earnings reports, crypto traders are already counting their gains in satoshis.
Hollywood Meets Hard Numbers
Warner Bros Discovery flexes its content muscle, proving streaming wars still move needles—and stock prices. Meanwhile, Rocket Lab's trajectory points skyward as space becomes the newest speculative frontier.
Metals & Markets
Steel Dynamics hammers out gains, because apparently old-school manufacturing still gets pulses racing. Meanwhile, the 'more' category includes the usual suspects chasing momentum like dogs after parked cars.
Let's be real—while these stocks jockey for position, Bitcoin's already done another 5% this week without any earnings calls or CFOs explaining 'headwinds.' Sometimes the future doesn't wait for permission.
Key Takeaways
- The S&P 500 and Nasdaq slipped from their record highs Tuesday as the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting kicked off.
- Warner Bros. Discovery shares fell as the stock was downgraded by TD Cowan, citing concerns the stock could tumble if a takeover by Paramount Skydance isn't carried out.
- Shares of Dave & Buster’s Entertainment also plunged after the arcade and restaurant chain missed profit and sales estimates.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq slipped from record highs Tuesday as the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting kicked off. The Dow also edged lower.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) was the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 following a downgrade from TD Cowen, citing concerns gains from a recent runup tied to reports of a sale to Paramount Skydance (PSKY) could be lost if the deal fails to materialize.
Shares of Dave & Buster’s Entertainment (PLAY) plunged after the arcade and restaurant chain missed profit and sales estimates as comparable store sales declined and it warned that inflation and tariffs might negatively affect its business.
Rocket Lab (RKLB) shares lost altitude as the rocket launch company announced it has struck agreements to sell $750 million in stock in order to raise cash.
Novo Nordisk (NVO) shares ROSE after the drugmaker reported positive results from a Phase 3 trial of a weight-loss drug that works in a different way than Wegovy and other traditional GLP-1 inhibitors.
Steel Dynamics (STLD) shares advanced after the steelmaker gave a better-than-expected outlook on improved performance across its units.
Oil and Gold futures climbed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was little changed. The U.S. dollar lost ground to the euro, pound, and yen. Prices for most major cryptocurrencies were lower.