Volatility tends to be driven by investor uncertainty and emotions. Though there's clear uncertainty at the moment concerning the prevailing rate of inflation and how rising prices might adversely impact stocks moving forward, a strong argument can be made that there's a much bigger threat to Wall Street than inflation.

Wall Street gave up gains Friday after President Donald Trump hit Canada with a fresh 35% tariff and promised more across the board. This came just a day after the S&P 500 set a brand new all-time high.

U.S. stock markets are poised to open lower on Friday as futures for the major indexes signal a retreat, with investors bracing for renewed trade tensions following two days of gains. The pullback comes in response to rising anxiety over President Donald Trump’s latest trade actions,

Probably the biggest concern about the stock, though, is that its valuation is unjustifiable. Palantir's shares trade at 238 times forward earnings. Its price/earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio, which factors in analysts' earnings growth projections over the next five years, is a sky-high 4.18, according to LSEG.

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock currently trades for around $155. However, Loop Capital just gave Nvidia a new price target of $250 per share. That indicates around 60% upside from today's price, but the implications of a $250-per-share stock are far greater.

MongoDB develops the leading document-oriented database, a technology that lends itself to AI applications, and the current valuation is cheap versus the three-year average.

Even though the benchmark US stock market indices opened flat, airline stocks surged at the opening bell after Delta Air announced its better-than-expected earnings outlook for the year on Thursday, 10 July 2025.

Wall Street indexes closed higher on Wednesday, led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq as Nvidia briefly reached a $4 trillion valuation, and Federal Reserve meeting minutes fueled hopes that inflation pressures from President Donald Trump's tariffs would not derail interest rate cuts this year.