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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Amazon, Corning, CoreWeave, Bristol Myers & more

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 790 words · By Davis Giangiulio
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What to know about Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Amazon, Corning, CoreWeave, Bristol Myers & more

Check out some of the companies making the biggest midday moves: SpaceX — SpaceX's stock added 2%.

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What happened

Check out some of the companies making the biggest midday moves: SpaceX — SpaceX's stock added 2%.

Why it matters

Elon Musk's rocket company is slated to report its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday, and a key insider lockup provision is set to expire on Thursday.

Common ground

Bearish bets against the rocket company have climbed, with short sellers holding 32.2% of the company's publicly tradable float, according to S3.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “The stock [ArcelorMittal] rose more than 1% after the steelmaker deepened a technology partnership with Microsoft”
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Claim 2: “Nebius ' stock advanced more than 13%”
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Claim 3: “Shares of photonics companies Coherent and Lumentum gained 9% and 6%, respectively”
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Claim 4: “Circle Internet Group ... stock declined almost 5% after Morgan Stanley downgraded Circle to underweight from equal weight”
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Claim 5: “Fiscal third-quarter adjusted earnings per share matched expectations, but revenue of $13.87 billion missed the FactSet consensus call”
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Claim 6: “Salesforce , which saw shares gain nearly 3%”
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Claim 7: “Bristol Myers' stock was marginally higher”
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Claim 8: “ArcelorMittal said Microsoft's Azure will serve as the backbone in modernizing its technology systems”
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Claim 9: “GameStop ... saw shares tumble more than 12% after it announced a private exchange of $1.4 billion in convertible senior notes for equity”
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Claim 10: “Shares [of Ferguson Enterprises] were up 8% after S & P Dow Jones Indices said Friday that Ferguson will join the S & P 500 , replacing Electronic Arts before the market opens Wednesday”
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Claim 11: “Shares of American Airlines and United Airlines gained about 5% each”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked airlin…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — American Airlines Flight 77 was a scheduled domestic transcontinental passenger flight from Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. The B…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — LATAM Airlines is a Chilean multinational airline headquartered in Santiago, Chile. It is the largest airline holding company in Latin America with subsidiaries in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay …
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Claim 12: “eBay's acquisition of Depop, completed last week”
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Claim 13: “Tyson Foods ... were last up more than 2%”
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Claim 14: “Shares of AI cloud computing play CoreWeave jumped 15%”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. Unlike genera…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michael Intrator (born 1969) is an American business executive. The CEO and co-founder of CoreWeave, he was previously a commodities trader at Natsource Asset Management and co-founder and CEO of Huds…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Intrator
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Claim 15: “Elon Musk's rocket company is slated to report its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday”
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Three independent web search results confirm that SpaceX was scheduled to report its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday.
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX is set to issue its first quarterly earnings report as a public company Tuesday afternoon, calling attention to Silicon Valley’s surging investment in AI and the supply chain supporting the bui…
https://www.aol.com/articles/expect-markets-week-spacex-firs…
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web search NEUTRAL — NEW YORK, Aug 4 : SpaceX on Tuesday posted its first quarterly results as a public company, highlighting a 92 per cent rise in revenue on strong growth in its Starlink satellite-internet and AI busine…
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web search NEUTRAL — NEW YORK – Investors in Elon Musk's space company get a chance to question him Tuesday after SpaceX issues its first quarterly earnings since going public. SpaceX shares are down by half from their Ju…
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Claim 16: “Shares of Microsoft were up 4%”
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Claim 17: “Amazon ... saw shares climb another 5% to a record, pushing Amazon's market value above $3 trillion for the first time”
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Claim 18: “the Financial Times reported that the two [AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb] were in talks to merge”
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Claim 19: “The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) climbed more than 2% in midday trading”
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Claim 21: “AstraZeneca's stock fell almost 9%”
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Claim 22: “U.S.-listed shares of the Chinese e-commerce platform [Alibaba] gained 5% after Alibaba unveiled a new AI model on Monday”
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Claim 23: “Analysts anticipate second-quarter revenue of $1.81 billion and earnings of 34 cents per share, according to StreetAccount”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a United States federal initiative launched by the second Trump administration. It was first suggested to Donald Trump by Elon Musk in 2024, establis…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hannah C. Dugan (born 1959) is an American attorney and former Wisconsin circuit court judge for Milwaukee County who resigned after a jury convicted her for obstructing federal agents. She previousl…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A number of financial analysts have identified significant signs of insider trading in the U.S. government during the second presidency of Donald Trump. Allegations of insider trading have focused on …
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Claim 24: “Western Digital 's stock slid more than 4%”
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Claim 26: “it [IGV] remains lower by more than 8% year to date”
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Claim 27: “a key insider lockup provision is set to expire on Thursday”
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Multiple sources confirm that a SpaceX insider lockup provision expired on Thursday, freeing up billions in shares.
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX shares rose on Thursday as investors digested the release of as many as 911.5 million shares worth about $100 billion from lock-up agreements that had prevented insiders from selling them.Marke…
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web search NEUTRAL — The lockup expiration arrives as SpaceX stock sits under pressure. Shares dropped more than 10% on Wednesday after the company's first-ever public earnings call disappointed investors, even as revenue…
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX insiders gained their first opportunity to sell shares since the company’s public debut on Thursday, as an initial lockup period expired and freed up to 911.5 million shares for trading.
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Claim 28: “EBay ... tumbled 4% after Wells Fargo downgraded eBa to underweight from equal weight”
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Claim 29: “Shares of cruise operators Norwegian and Carnival rose 4% and almost 2%, respectively”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Carnival Corporation Ltd. is a Bermuda-domiciled American cruise line operator that owns more than 90 vessels across eight brands. Carnival is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and is a component…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Carnival Cruise Line is an international cruise line with headquarters in Doral, Florida. The company is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Its logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, wi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Seabourn Cruise Line is a luxury cruise line headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.
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Claim 30: “shares of Seagate Technology were off 5%”
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Claim 31: “Tyson also trimmed its operating income outlook for the fiscal year”
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Claim 32: “Micron Technology 's stock was down about 1%”
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Claim 33: “Vertiv , a maker of cooling systems for data centers, saw shares rise nearly 7%”
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Claim 34: “short sellers holding 32.2% of the company's publicly tradable float, according to S3”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and lands as a spaceplane. …
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Claim 35: “SpaceX's stock added 2%”
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk owns 42% of the outstanding shares of SpaceX and controls 85% of the voting power via his super-voting stock. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing spaceflight co…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 24, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 8, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to…
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Claim 36: “Adobe , which saw share rise almost 2%”
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Claim 37: “Shares [of Palantir Technologies] rose 2%”
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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2003 by Peter T…
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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir recorded its biggest one-day percentage increase since February 2024 as the stock surged. The rise coincided with a widespread advance in technology shares that pushed the Nasdaq Composite up…
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
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Claim 39: “Corning ... rallied more than 5% after an upgrade by Truist to buy from hold”
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