Crypto Pulse—US Stocks

Circle fell around 8–9% on September 15, 2026 after the U.S. Senate failed to invoke cloture on the CLARITY Act, 49–50 against a 60-vote threshold. The bill is not dead — a senator voted no specifically to preserve a motion to reconsider. Circle launches the Arc public mainnet on September 16, giving it a company-specific catalyst one day after a sector-wide setback.Circle Internet Group enters September 16 with two catalysts pulling in opposite directions.On Tuesday the Senate failed to invoke

CrowdStrike jumped about 14% to a record high on September 14, 2026, as calls from AI lab leaders for slower model development pushed investors out of semiconductors and into cybersecurity. The rotation landed on a company that had spent the previous two weeks launching Falcon Guardian and tying it to OpenAI, Google Cloud and Anthropic. Whether that becomes revenue is the open question.CrowdStrike was the clearest winner from Monday’s rotation. CRWD hit an all-time high on a 14% jump while semic

Micron demonstrated the world's first 512GB DDR5 server memory module on September 15, 2026, one day after AI-slowdown warnings knocked memory stocks lower. The module targets AI inference, analytics and other memory-hungry server workloads rather than GPU training. Volume production is not expected until the second half of 2027, so the nearer catalyst is Micron's fiscal Q4 earnings on September 30.Micron Technology gave investors a reason to look past the previous day's selloff. On September 15

The last session was Monday, September 14. All three indices closed lower, with the S&P 500 down 0.48% at 7,620.25, the Nasdaq Composite down 0.56% and the Dow Jones Industrial down 0.29%. Rates did most of the work: the 10-year Treasury yield reached about 5.0%, its highest since October 2023. The gap between sectors was far wider than the index move. A public dispute over the pace of AI development set off a selloff in chip names, the semiconductor ETF fell more than 4% in a single day, and mo

The Federal Reserve enters its September meeting with markets increasingly expecting a 25-basis-point interest rate hike, a sharp change from earlier expectations that rates could remain unchanged.The Federal Open Market Committee will meet on September 15–16, with its policy statement scheduled for 2:00 p.m. ET on September 16, followed by Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET. Because this is also a quarterly projection meeting, the Fed will release an updated Summary of Economi

Meta Platforms moved sharply against the broader AI hardware trade on September 14. META shares gained about 2.7%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.48% and semiconductor stocks suffered much steeper losses. Nvidia declined 3.4%, Micron dropped more than 5%, and AMD and Broadcom each fell more than 4%. September 14 market performanceThe contrast matters because Meta is one of the world's largest buyers of AI infrastructure rather than a pure supplier of it. If the frontier AI race develops at a slower pa

AI stocks came under renewed pressure on September 14, but the selloff was heavily concentrated in one part of the market: semiconductors and AI infrastructure.Nvidia fell 3.4%, Micron Technology dropped more than 5%, while Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom each lost more than 4%. The PHLX Semiconductor Index fell 5.9%, far more than the Nasdaq Composite’s 0.56% decline. The move followed renewed concerns over the pace and safety of frontier AI development, while higher Treasury yields added a

Trading activity in equity-linked products on MEXC increased sharply in August 2026. According to internal data released by MEXC on September 11, trading volume across Stock Futures linked to equities, indices, and ETFs rose 130% from July. The number of available contracts increased by 35% to more than 400.Growth was also recorded in Spot products. Trading volume for tokenized stocks and ETFs increased by approximately 30% month-on-month, while their share of total TradFi Spot volume rose from

The last trading day was Friday, September 11. All three indices closed higher and snapped a four-session slide: the Dow Jones Industrial rose 0.98%, the Nasdaq Composite 0.96%, and the S&P 500 0.86% to close at 7,656. The stock in focus is HP Enterprise (HPE), up 12.42% at $62.09, although this was not a solo move: the NYSE computer hardware group averaged +8.29% that day, with Dell (DELL) up 11.95% and NetApp (NTAP) up 8.54%. There is no US economic data tonight and no large-cap company re

The last trading day was Thursday, September 10. All three indices fell for a fourth straight session: the Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,081.72, down 0.65%; the Dow Jones Industrial at 52,064.10, down 0.60%; the S&P 500 at 7,592.30, down 0.58%. The daily star was Exxon Mobil (XOM), up 0.61% at $165.23 — while the integrated oil and gas industry averaged −1.25% that same day, the energy sector −1.59%, and Chevron (CVX) fell 0.50%. The counterintuitive part: WTI crude rose 6.69% on that very day.