Shares of breakfast restaurant chain First Watch Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:FWRG) fell 5% in the pre-market session after continued negative momentum as a filing showed that investment firm Brown Advisory Inc.

Shares of business analytics software company MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) jumped 3% in the morning session after the price of Bitcoin surged to a new record high, surpassing $118,000. As the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin,

T. Rowe Price's (NASDAQ:TROW) preliminary assets under management rose to $1.68T at June 30, 2025, from $1.62T at May 31, 2025, helped by equity market gains in the month, according to data the asset manager released on Friday.

Although Alibaba stock looks reasonably priced, Amazon's lower business risk from the U.S.-China tensions gives it the edge as the better long-term investment. The drop in its P/E ratio in recent months makes now a good time to pick up shares.

Palantir bulls point to this as a reason why the stock could reach a $1 trillion valuation by 2035. However, the bears have another key point to consider, and it could derail the entire investment thesis.

U.S. stock markets are poised to open lower on Friday as futures for the major indexes signal a retreat, with investors bracing for renewed trade tensions following two days of gains. The pullback comes in response to rising anxiety over President Donald Trump’s latest trade actions,

One stock that managed to outmaneuver the various headwinds torturing the markets throughout the year, however, is data mining specialist Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR). With shares soaring by 80% during the first six months of 2025, Palantir was the top-performing stock across both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100.

For mutual funds, investors send checks to the asset manager, which are invested by the portfolio manager at the end of the day. The investors get “units” of the fund at the end-of-day unit price, which is calculated from the “net asset value” of the fund.