The UAE Is Hit, Markets Fall: How the Iran Conflict Ended the April Rally
UAE intercepts Iranian missiles, Brent above $126, Dow -557 — the April rally is over. What happened, what investors should do now.
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UAE intercepts Iranian missiles, Brent above $126, Dow -557 — the April rally is over. What happened, what investors should do now.
One number is making the rounds in the market this week, and it’s big enough to overshadow even the Iran
S&P 500 at 7,230, Nasdaq above 25,000 — best April rally since 2020. What the May week brings: earnings (Palantir, AMD, Arm), NFP, ISM, Iran deal, Berkshire meeting.
First quarterly report under Greg Abel: operating earnings up 18%, net income roughly doubled to $10.1B, cash reserves approaching the historic $400B mark.
Alphabet’s Q1 2026 print delivered the cleanest answer the market has gotten on AI capex: $109.9B revenue, Cloud +63%, and a $462B backlog. Capex guidance up, not down — supply, not demand, is the new constraint.
A four-dissent Fed decision, Mag7 capex on a collision course with reality, and the OpenAI revenue miss that reset the entire AI infrastructure trade.
This week, five of the world’s seven most valuable companies face investors — and they all face the same question.
It was a single tweet that catapulted a $158 billion company’s stock by 13 percent in 30 minutes. Ming-Chi Kuo,
In April 2026, something shifted in the tech industry that will be recognizable as a turning point in five years’
On Thursday, Meta sent an internal memo to its workforce. Content: 10 percent of employees — about 8,000 people —