Wall Street Sees Mixed Session with Dow at All-Time High, Oil Cools on Iran War Optimism

Wall Street had a strong session overnight — if you squint past the Nasdaq. The Dow hit an all-time high and oil cooled on optimism that the Iran war was nearing its end. Chip stocks, however, stumbled; bitcoin is hovering at its weakest since the war began, private credit is throwing off sparks again — and a flesh-eating parasite has turned up in Texas. As Wall Street is throwing a rocket-themed party for SpaceX, rating agency S&P Global made it clear that the blockbuster IPO may not see a swift entry for the company into its benchmark index. The ceasefire trade is back on, with the Dow surging to a fresh all-time high, the S&P 500 edging higher and oil prices cooling 3%. U.S. President Donald Trump said he'd be "honored" to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, if a deal can be reached, while the Wall Street Journal reported that the president was reluctant to resume a full-scale war with Tehran. Brent futures, the international crude benchmark, lost 2.8% to close at $95.03 per barrel, West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 3.1% to settle at $93.04 per barrel Thursday. Both were down in Friday Asia trading. That drop in oil comes even as Iran-backed Hezbollah has rejected the terms of a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreed between Israel and Lebanon as "absurd, humiliating and insulting," demanding a full Israeli withdrawal before any deal holds. From energy to tech: Broadcom tumbled about 15% after missing revenue expectations — enough to drag the Nasdaq down nearly 0.1% even as the rest of Wall Street cheered. The tech contagion spread to stocks in Asia, dragging key indexes lower. Senator Elizabeth Warren has invited Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on June 11 over the company's China sales and U.S. export controls, according to a letter seen by CNBC. Meanwhile, TSMC Chairman Che-Chia Wei told shareholders on Thursday that the firm was striving to keep up with demand and avoid becoming a bottleneck in the global supply chain, while signaling a willingness to raise prices. Crypto slide continued, with bitcoin weathering its ugliest week in months, briefly dipping below $62,000 before steadying near $63,719. It has now erased all of its gains since the war began, caught between ETF outflows, a rotation into other assets and Michael Saylor's Strategy revealing its first bitcoin sale since 2022. Cracks in private credit widened. Blackstone capped withdrawals from its flagship Blackstone Private Credit fund, following a spike in investor redemption requests. It followed Switzerland's Partners Group, which did the same for one of its private equity vehicles while warning that it may restrict withdrawals across more funds as the pressure spreads from credit into private equity. The Wall Street banks are competing to fete clients ahead of the SpaceX listing. Bank of America, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are all hosting splashy events over the next few days for a deal that aims to raise a record $75 billion at an expected $1.75 trillion valuation — the largest IPO of all time. In other news, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the detection of a New World screwworm in a bovine in Zavala County, Texas — the first detection of the flesh-eating pest in the United States in decades, found in a 3-week-old calf. — Anniek Bao The World Cup will boost these hospitality stocks, Deutsche and Goldman say The world's biggest sporting event kicks off in North America next week. Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs have listed the sectors and stocks they see getting a boost from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted by the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. "Our analysts in leisure, restaurants and beverages, media, tech, and gaming see names in their coverage for which the World Cup could be a supportive factor for shares," Deutsche analysts wrote on Tuesday, outlining a number of stocks that would get a "temporary tailwind." Deutsche picked U.S. restaurant brands with greater proximity to World Cup host cities, saying they were best positioned to benefit from increased tourism. Goldman Sachs is also forecasting a boon to European and U.S. consumer staples, European consumer discretionary, U.S. retail, US lodging and leisure, and U.S. airlines, because of the sheer number of people spending big to travel to see the games. — Joseph Wilkins