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Stock Market Midday, July 17: Netflix Plunges and Stocks Slide as Semiconductor Sell-Off DeepensPhoto, wide shot, wide-angle lens, soft focus,  IT consulting firm, Blue hour, twilight, cool, ISO1200, slow shutter speed, photo by Sebastião Salgado: https://oaidalleapiprodscus.blob.core.windows.net/private/org-IbuNdCATsFaPOITjFOv2kJh3/user-AXaxqjBUW45D8BadJEo9mUpW/img-uhXP0RHYYxDepjmHeSp1K8bF.png?st=2023-05-07T15%3A26%3A44Z&se=2023-05-07T17%3A26%3A44Z&sp=r&sv=2021-08-06&sr=b&rscd=inline&rsct=image/png&skoid=6aaadede-4fb3-4698-a8f6-684d7786b067&sktid=a48cca56-e6da-484e-a814-9c849652bcb3&skt=2023-05-07T16%3A18%3A55Z&ske=2023-05-08T16%3A18%3A55Z&sks=b&skv=2021-08-06&sig=4pcJOd8aEI1799liUV13F4ElqO7e4RZy8sa1PEeeNZA%3D
Stock Market Midday, July 17: Netflix Plunges and Stocks Slide as Semiconductor Sell-Off Deepens

As of noon ET, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) is down 1.06% to 25,607.34, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has fallen 0.57% to 7,491.11, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI)

This Beaten-Down Aviation Stock Is Worth a Look Despite Its 46% Decline: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/874061/joby_aircraft_in-flight_new-york_1_2026.jpg
This Beaten-Down Aviation Stock Is Worth a Look Despite Its 46% Decline

If you've been holding out on Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY), whether because of its lofty valuation or unfinished certification process, now might be a good time to take a second look at the

Micron Is Quietly Becoming a More Reliable Long-Term Growth Play: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879081/micron-building-at-night-with-micron-logo-on-top_micron.jpg
Micron Is Quietly Becoming a More Reliable Long-Term Growth Play

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) has delivered stellar returns to investors over the year, with its shares rising by an incredible 633% over this period. However, the memory specialist has seen a

Why SpaceX Stock Dropped on Friday: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879632/spacex-logois-the-motley-fool.jpg
Why SpaceX Stock Dropped on Friday

Falling below $125 per share today, Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) stock is officially a broken IPO now -- trading $10 below the point at which it priced its IPO last month. Investors

Sandisk Has Surged More Than 3,000% in the Last 12 Months. Could a Stock Split Be Coming?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879086/sndk.png
Sandisk Has Surged More Than 3,000% in the Last 12 Months. Could a Stock Split Be Coming?

As of July 15, the Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) stock price is up by more than 3,000% in the last 12 months. Trading is a little choppy, and the stock is actually down significantly from the peak it hit

9 Words From JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon That Every Investor Needs to Hear Right Now. Hint: It Could Change Your Investment Strategy.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878931/jpmorgan-chase-building-in-sydney.jpg
9 Words From JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon That Every Investor Needs to Hear Right Now. Hint: It Could Change Your Investment Strategy.

The big banks' second-quarter results are in, and they demonstrate incredible market momentum. There was strong growth across most of their businesses, indicating a healthy economy, but the big star

Why Did Nvidia Stock Sink Today?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879417/nvidia-logo-the-motley-fool.png
Why Did Nvidia Stock Sink Today?

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock plunged nearly 5% early Friday. Shares of the artificial intelligence (AI) leader have been treading water for the past several months, with investors balancing the

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Launched a Cloud Business This Week. The Stock Had Its Best Week Since Early 2024, Surging 15%.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878856/gettyimages-1751833779.jpg
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Launched a Cloud Business This Week. The Stock Had Its Best Week Since Early 2024, Surging 15%.

Back in May at Meta Platformʻs (NASDAQ: META) annual shareholders meeting, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said something that caught a lot of people off guard -- that the notion of selling computing access

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Why PayPal Shares Are Skyrocketing Higher This Week

Shares of popular digital payments platform, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), soared 23% this week (as of noon ET on Friday) after payments peer Stripe and private equity firm Advent International offered to

Prediction: $10,000 Invested in SpaceX Today Could Be Worth This Much by September: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/877798/spacex.png
Prediction: $10,000 Invested in SpaceX Today Could Be Worth This Much by September

After a wild first month, Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), better known as SpaceX, is now below its IPO price of $135, and well under its initial trading price of $150. As of

Netflix Beat Estimates Again; Why Did the Stock Drop 12% Anyway?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879427/nflx-netflix-logo-red.png
Netflix Beat Estimates Again; Why Did the Stock Drop 12% Anyway?

Shares of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) fell as much as 12.2% on Friday morning before recovering to a 9.1% decline as of 11:20 a.m. ET. The video-streaming giant delivered a perfectly cromulent Q2 2026

If I Could Only Buy 1 Dividend ETF With $1,000 Right Now, Here's Where I'd Invest: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878294/95252467620f93cb6ca6da270d3babb8982e3f31_schwab.png
If I Could Only Buy 1 Dividend ETF With $1,000 Right Now, Here's Where I'd Invest

If I could add shares of only one dividend ETF to my portfolio today, it would be the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHD). This fund, along with the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF

Why Meta Stock Dropped on Friday: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879423/meta-logo-on-a-smartphone.jpg
Why Meta Stock Dropped on Friday

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) stock tumbled 5.3% through 11:20 a.m. ET Friday amid a tech sell-off that's dragging down the Nasdaq by about 1.5%. You can probably blame banker BMO for that.

Or at

2 Stocks to Buy in the Chip Stock Sell-Off: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878780/marvell-technology-and-nvidia-logos.png
2 Stocks to Buy in the Chip Stock Sell-Off

On July 13, chip stocks dropped sharply for several reasons, including escalating geopolitical tensions. It's not that surprising to see many investors take some profits as they fear what may happen

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Why Alphabet Stock Dropped on Friday

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) stock slipped 2% through 10:15 a.m. ET Friday after Bloomberg reported, Thursday afternoon, that its Gemini 3.5 Pro flagship AI model is "months behind

Social Security's Payroll Tax Rate Could Increase. Here's Why I'd Rather That Happen Sooner Rather Than Later.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878805/us-capitol-building-with-social-security-cards-in-the-background.jpg
Social Security's Payroll Tax Rate Could Increase. Here's Why I'd Rather That Happen Sooner Rather Than Later.

Currently, you pay 6.2% of your income into Social Security each year before that money ever makes it to your bank account. That's thousands of dollars per year. If you're self-employed like me

Netflix Just Changed How Often It Reports Engagement. Should Investors Worry?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879414/watching-tv-2022.jpg
Netflix Just Changed How Often It Reports Engagement. Should Investors Worry?

On the surface, Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX) second-quarter earnings report wasn't terrible. Revenue came in slightly below expectations, but grew 13% year-over-year, and earnings per share grew by 11%

Data Centers Are the Hot New REITs. Should You Invest $1,000?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878967/gettyimages-2208422236.jpg
Data Centers Are the Hot New REITs. Should You Invest $1,000?

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have staged a comeback in 2026 after years of declining or moving sideways. And one category of REITs, data centers, is particularly hot right now.

But first

S&P Global Spun Off Its Mobility Business on July 1. Here's What the Leaner Ratings Giant Looks Like Now.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878010/investment-analysts-using-ai-to-pick-stocks.jpg
S&P Global Spun Off Its Mobility Business on July 1. Here's What the Leaner Ratings Giant Looks Like Now.

It's official. As of the beginning of this month, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) is a smaller but more focused company, having shed the least impactful of its businesses. That's S&P Global Mobility, now

Procter & Gamble Has Raised Its Dividend for 70 Straight Years. Only 5 Other Companies Can Say the Same.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879281/procter-and-gamble-facility-with-logo-on-side-of-building_pg.jpg
Procter & Gamble Has Raised Its Dividend for 70 Straight Years. Only 5 Other Companies Can Say the Same.

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) raised its quarterly dividend 3% in April to $1.0885 per share, marking its 70th consecutive year of dividend increases. Only five other publicly traded companies have

SpaceX Delayed Its Starship Launch and the Stock Fell Below Its IPO Price. One of Those Things Matters. The Other Doesn't.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879404/confused-man-2022.jpg
SpaceX Delayed Its Starship Launch and the Stock Fell Below Its IPO Price. One of Those Things Matters. The Other Doesn't.

Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), better known as SpaceX, completed the largest IPO in history earlier this year, and the initial reception was a positive one. However, shares have been

Now We Know Why Netflix Is Trying but Failing to Go on a Shopping Spree: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879378/gettyimages-1317797291.jpg
Now We Know Why Netflix Is Trying but Failing to Go on a Shopping Spree

As the world's largest premium streaming service, it seemed odd to see Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) tied to so many potential content acquisitions over the past year. After Thursday afternoon's poorly

3 Utility Stocks Built for the Coming AI Power Crunch: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/878095/gettyimages-613330688-1200x675-128554e.jpg
3 Utility Stocks Built for the Coming AI Power Crunch

Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are popping up everywhere, to the point where it's becoming a source of political backlash. Yet while the debate over where to build data centers rages on

Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Just Said 3 Words That Could Add Some Serious Fuel to the AI Trade: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879040/buffett17-tmf.jpg
Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Just Said 3 Words That Could Add Some Serious Fuel to the AI Trade

Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett may no longer run the company he helped build into one of the world's largest conglomerates over more than six decades. But he will still occasionally

Why Shares of AST SpaceMobile Collapsed 25% This Week: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/879399/satellites.jpg
Why Shares of AST SpaceMobile Collapsed 25% This Week

Shares of AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) have collapsed 25% this week, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The potentially disruptive direct-to-device satellite internet provider