Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq turn lower with oil prices, Walmart, rate-cut bets in focus

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  US stocks crook down astatine the opening bell

  The US banal marketplace fell successful the minutes aft the opening doorbell connected Thursday arsenic US-Iran tensions kept lipid prices apical of mind, portion investors digested net from Walmart (WMT) and a divided successful the Federal Reserve implicit the way for involvement rates.

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and tech-exposed Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led the mode down , losing astir 0.5% each, portion the S&P 500 (^GSPC) shed 0.3% pursuing gains crossed the large indexes successful the erstwhile session.

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  As capitalist attraction looked toward the Middle East, lipid prices continued to climb, extending their biggest regular leap since October amid simmering tensions betwixt the US and Iran implicit imaginable subject action. Brent (BZ=F) crude, the planetary pricing benchmark, climbed to supra $71 a barrel, portion US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (CL=F) climbed supra $66 pursuing an Axios study that the Trump medication is leaning toward conflict.

  Walmart (WMT) posted a humble quarterly bushed earlier the doorbell and precocious astir 2% to commencement the session. Newmont Corporation (NEM), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) volition each study aft the close.

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  Oil prices proceed climbing arsenic traders ticker tensions successful Iran

  Oil prices climbed again connected Thursday greeting arsenic traders priced successful shocks from a imaginable equipped struggle betwixt the US and Iran, adding to ample gains successful Wednesday trading and the overnight session.

  Futures connected Brent crude (BZ=F), the planetary pricing benchmark, and US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude (CL=F) some roseate astir 2% to commercialized supra $71.60 and $66.20, respectively. The terms enactment brings monthly gains connected some vigor products to much than 11%.

  The lipid marketplace has been intimately watching developments successful Iran, with caller substance added by the Trump administration's determination to nonstop a 2nd craft bearer to the region. The determination adds to what has present go the largest aerial powerfulness armament successful the Middle East since the penetration of Iraq successful 2003, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  While Iran's overseas curate Abbas Araghchi said connected Tuesday that talks betwixt Tehran and Washington had reached a imaginable model for a woody connected Iran's atomic program, the X relationship for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spent Tuesday posting incendiary comments astir the deal.

  While Iran sits connected the 3rd largest proved crude lipid reserves successful the satellite and ranks successful the apical 10 of producers globally, lipid markets wage astir attraction to the Strait of Hormuz, a captious shipping chokepoint that sees astir 20 cardinal barrels of petroleum products per time transverse done its waters.

  On Monday, the Iranian authorities said it was partially closing the strait to behaviour subject exercises — notable since it has earlier conducted subject drills without issuing a ceremonial closure notice.

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  Initial jobless claims travel successful beneath expectations, largest diminution since November

  Initial jobless claims fell by 23,000 to 206,000 for the week ended Feb. 14, the largest diminution since November, according to information from the Department of Labor.

  The speechmaking is importantly beneath economists' expectations of 225,000 archetypal claims, according to Bloomberg's statement estimates.

  Continuing claims, which way the fig of radical continuing to person benefits, roseate by 17,000 implicit the erstwhile week to 1.87 million, according to Labor Department data.

  The archetypal claims information comes arsenic capitalist attraction turns toward complaint chopped decisions astatine the Federal Reserve's upcoming gathering successful March. The minutes of the cardinal bank’s Jan. 27-28 argumentation meeting, released Wednesday, made wide the Fed is shifting further distant from agreeing connected different cut. The minutes adjacent made notation of treatment astir imaginable complaint hikes.

  Traders were pricing successful a 94% accidental that the Fed volition support rates astatine their existent people scope of 3.5% to 3.75% adjacent month, according to information from CME Group. Most traders are inactive expecting 2 complaint cuts by the extremity of th

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  Etsy shares surge connected Depop woody contempt gross miss

  Etsy (ETSY) shares surged 22% during premarket hours connected Thursday aft reporting 4th fourth earnings. Despite gross falling short, the online retailer's banal soared aft the institution announced it would beryllium selling Depop to eBay (EBAY) for $1.2 billion.

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  Premarket trending tickers: Etsy, eBay, Deere, and Epam

  Etsy (ETSY) shares surged 22% during premarket hours connected Thursday aft reporting 4th fourth earnings. Despite gross falling short, the online retailer's banal soared aft the institution announced it would beryllium selling Depop to eBay (EBAY) for $1.2 billion.

  Ebay (EBAY) stock roseate 7% earlier the doorbell connected Thursday pursuing the merchandise of its 4th fourth net connected Wednesday, which bushed analysts' estimates. The e-commerce institution besides announced the Depop woody with Etsy, successful the anticipation of attracting younger consumers to the online auction site.

  Deere (DE) shares roseate 5% during premarket hours aft raising its yearly nett forecast amid a rebound successful its operation business.

  Epam (EPAM) banal sank 17% earlier the doorbell contiguous aft forecasting archetypal 4th results successful enactment with analysts expectations.

• Walmart modestly beats 4th fourth estimates, but posts cautious outlook

  Walmart (WMT) posted net connected Thursday that somewhat topped Wall Street estimates for the past vacation 4th and year, amid coagulated maturation successful sales.

  But the retail elephantine hinted astatine headwinds up successful its guidance, pointing to tariffs, geopolitical conditions, and inflation, among different imaginable pressures.

  Shares fell astir 3% earlier the doorbell arsenic investors scrutinized the report, its archetypal nether caller CEO John Furner.

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  128.31 +1.69 (+1.33%)

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• Samsung banal surges to a grounds aft study it's raising terms of latest AI representation spot

  Bloomberg reports:

  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.KS, SSNLF) shares jumped to a caller grounds precocious Thursday, aft section media reported that the steadfast is negotiating a terms for its latest artificial quality representation spot that’s up to 30% higher than the erstwhile generation.

  The chipmaker’s banal roseate arsenic overmuch arsenic 5.4% connected Korea Exchange, arsenic the marketplace reopened pursuing a three-day holiday. Samsung is looking to terms its HBM4 astatine astir $700 per unit, according to Chosun Ilbo newspaper. Samsung declined to remark connected the media report.

  ... After initially falling down smaller SK Hynix (000660.KS) successful the aboriginal days of the AI race, Samsung has been mounting a comeback. Just past week Samsung said it started wide accumulation of HBM4 chips and had shipped commercialized products to customers.

  SK Hynix had acceptable the terms of HBM4 for Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) successful the mid-$500 scope successful August but whitethorn determination to lucifer Samsung’s higher number, Chosun Ilbo said, citing unidentified radical successful the industry.

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  DoorDash banal rises aft institution reports mixed 4th fourth results

  DoorDash (DASH) reported 4th fourth results that somewhat missed Wall Street's expectations connected the apical and bottommost lines, portion full orders roseate much than forecast.

  Earnings per stock came successful astatine $0.48, compared with the $0.55 the Street had forecast. But adjusted EBITDA reached $780 cardinal successful the 4th — up 38% compared to a twelvemonth agone and astir $5 cardinal supra the Street's estimates.

  Meanwhile, gross grew 28% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $3.96 billion, a tick little than the astir $4 cardinal Wall Street predicted. Total orders, which means each orders done its marketplaces and commerce platform, besides jumped 32% to 903 cardinal successful the quarter. That's much than the 888 cardinal analysts had anticipated.

  Its banal roseate arsenic overmuch arsenic 13% during premarket hours connected Thursday.

  Marketplace GOV — the full dollar worth of transactions completed done the marketplace, including taxes, tips, and fees related to DashPass and its planetary level Wolt+, clocked successful astatine $29.7 cardinal compared to the expected $29.1 billion.

  That was driven higher by maturation successful caller customers and bid rates among existing customers successful the US edifice category.

  For the archetypal 4th of 2026, the institution expects marketplace GOV to beryllium successful the scope of $31.0 cardinal to $31.8 billion, supra the Street's forecast of $30.75 billion.

  Adjusted EBITDA is expected to beryllium successful the scope of $675 cardinal to $775 million, which is beneath what the Street predicted of $800 million.

• Oil holds onto biggest summation since October arsenic US-Iran fears swirl

  Oil steadied aft its biggest regular summation since October, pursuing an Axios study that American subject involution successful Iran could travel sooner than expected.

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• OpenAI approaches extremity of $100 cardinal backing phase

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• Carvana banal plummets aft missing expert EBITDA estimates

  Carvana (CVNA) banal deed a unsmooth spot arsenic investors took poorly to an net study highlighting precocious expenses successful a propulsion for utmost growth.

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