It’s the start of the week, and there’s already plenty of stock market stories traders need to know about. Fortunately, TipRanks has it covered with a list of the hottest stock market happenings on Monday!
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- Tesla (TSLA) stock rallied after the electric vehicle (EV) company approved a new $30 billion stock payment for founder and CEO Elon Musk.
- BP (BP) stock climbed after the oil company announced its largest discovery in 25 years.
- Verb Technology (VERB) stock rocketed after it announced a $558 million private placement to create a crypto treasury.
- Psyence Biomedical (PBM) stock surged after it provided shareholders with a corporate and clinical trial update.
- Rigetti Computing (RGTI) and IonQ (IONQ) shares increased today on new price targets from top Needham analyst N. Quinn Bolton.
- CommScope (COMM) stock skyrocketed after the company announced a $10.5 billion agreement with Amphenol Corporation (APH).
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) soared this morning on talk of a new trade deal with China.
- Oppenheimer lifted its year-end price target for the S&P 500 (SPX) to 7,100, the highest among its peers.
- International Business Machines (IBM) stock received praise and an increased price target from five-star-rated Wamsi Mohan.
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock rallied after the company reached a new milestone in the latest Steam Hardware Survey.
- Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) stock took a beating after the company’s Q2 2025 earnings report failed to impress investors.
- President Donald Trump punished India with higher tariffs after it aided the “Russian War Machine.”
- Eli Lilly (LLY) stock got a boost from reports that Medicare may soon cover its weight-loss drugs.
- Tesla saw its made-in-China sales slide in July.
- Nintendo (NTDOF) stock took off even after the company increased the price of its original Switch consoles in response to tariffs.
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