Episode 2026-06-22

You're listening to Seven Horns A I, your A I powered market update. Good evening. Today is Monday, June twenty-second, twenty twenty-six, and we are recapping a highly divergent day on Wall Street as the closing bell has fallen on today's trading session. It was a story of sharp rotation rather than a broad market decline. The S&P five hundred finished essentially flat, down zero point three three percent to close near seventy-four hundred and seventy-five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged slightly higher, gaining zero point two nine percent to finish around fifty-one thousand seven hundred. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declined meaningfully, losing one point three two percent to close near twenty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-seven. Under the hood, the real winner was small caps, with the Russell two thousand gaining zero point eight eight percent as investors rotated away from mega-cap tech. Looking at the after-hours futures, S&P five hundred futures are essentially flat, down just five-hundredths of a percent. However, Nasdaq 100 futures are pointing to a notable bounce, up one point one two percent, suggesting traders are already stepping in to buy the dip. In corporate news, mega-cap tech took a beating on rising concerns over massive artificial intelligence capital expenditures. Alphabet declined notably, falling four point nine nine percent, while Amazon dropped four point seven five percent, and Microsoft lost three point one eight percen