What are the latest market updates for May 6, 2026?
public.com presents the rundown your daily market update in 10 minutes my name is zadad mani and today is wednesday may 6th in today's episode i'm recapping earnings from amd disney and uber I'll also tell you about Nvidia's $500 million investment and a company known for making glass.
Then stick around to the end of the show to find out about Amazon's latest business that is making UPS and FedEx shareholders very nervous. We got a great show for you today. Let's go. Stocks were back to record highs on Tuesday. The S&P 500 was up 0.8%. The NASDAQ jumped 1%. I mean, it was a broad-based rally with all 11 sectors finishing in the green. Chip stocks were the biggest winners.
Intel surged 13% after reports that Apple was in talks with them and Samsung. to manufacture chips here in the US. We covered that on yesterday's show, so go check that out if you missed it. Intel's rally pulled up other semiconductor stocks like Sandisk, Micron, and Qualcomm, which were all up more than 10% yesterday.
And if you look at the SOX Semiconductor Index, ticker symbol S-O-X-X, it is now up 54% since the end of March. That is the best stretch for the chip stocks since the dot-com bubble in the year 2000. That also kind of makes me nervous about what's gonna happen to these chip stocks. Now, the other big driver of the market rally was the Iran situation calming down.
Remember, on Monday, there was an escalation near the Strait of Hormuz. But yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth played it down, saying the ceasefire is still holding. And then this morning, Axios is reporting that the U.S. and Iran are are close to reaching a deal to end the war. Now, nothing has been finalized yet.
The US is reportedly waiting for Iran to respond on several key points in the next 48 hours. But the market is reacting like this is a done deal. Oil prices are down around 10% this morning, with Brent crude dropping below $100 a barrel, and WTI is now under $90 a barrel. You know, for the past couple of weeks, the market has been more focused on strong corporate earnings.
But if a peace deal with Iran gets done, that could be the cherry on top. We'll continue to keep an eye on the headlines coming out of the Middle East, along with everything else happening in the markets. So make sure you guys are subscribed to the podcast and tuning in every day to stay in the loop. Let's run through some headlines. Starting with AMD.
AMD reported earnings last night and they absolutely crushed it. Revenue was up 38% to $10.3 billion and their net income nearly doubled to $1.4 billion. The data center business, which includes AMD's AI chips, was the star of the show. Revenue in that segment grew 57% year over year to $5.8 billion.
In fact, that one segment alone is now bringing in more revenue than the entire company was generating less than three years ago. And the cherry on top for these earnings was the guidance. AMD expects revenues to be $11.2 billion next quarter. Wall Street analysts were expecting that to be 10.5 billion. So that's a massive beat on the outlook.
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