CNBC Business News Update - Market Midday: Stocks Higher, Nvidia Hits Record High, Platinum Soars 6/26/25

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

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I'm Jessica Edinger CNBC Wall Street in the green this afternoon. The S&P 500 index inching toward a fresh record high today. It's possible. The NASDAQ opened at one this morning. The Dow up 313 points, three quarters of a percent. Goldman Sachs shares now leading the Dow higher. They're up more than 2%. The S&P 500 index up 41 points. That's a half percent. And the NASDAQ up 150 points, three quarters of a percent. Nvidia shares are up eight tenths of 1%. They hit a record high today. Other companies who shares have hit new all-time highs include Royal Caribbean Cruises, Capital One, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, and Palantir. Boeing shares are up today along with many defense names. The iShares US Aerospace and Defense ETF at an all-time high.

Some investors are worried about the economy it contracted for the first time in three years in the first quarter after strong growth in the fourth quarter of last year. And the contraction between January and March was worse than forecast. First quarter GDP, it really did shift dramatically down half a percent. And this all has to do with tariffs as everyone's trying to figure out what's going on with tariffs.

I'm not sure anybody has figured out what's going on with tariffs. Weakest GDP going all the way back to 2022. CNBC's Rick Santelli. The numbers show Americans are pulling back. Consumer spending also slowed sharply in the first quarter from a strong 4% at the end of last year to just a tick higher of a half percent in the first quarter of this year. A commodity group is getting some attention on Wall Street today. Market flash on metals. Take a look. We're watching platinum surging. You can see right now platinum's up over five percent.

Month to date, it's up just about 34 percent. And at its highest level since 2014 on some speculative buying and reports that Chinese jewelry buyers are snapping up supplies. Take a look at the rest of the metals complex, you're seeing some upside movement really across the board right now. Palladium up more than 4% right now. Copper up over 3%. Down there, gold up about a third of a percent.

Silver also up about one and one third of a percent. That's the NBC's Frank Holland. Nvidia shareholders signed off on a total compensation package for CEO Jensen Wong of about $50 million a year. But he's not the highest paid CEO out there. His pay package is not particularly out of line, particularly for the amount of value that that company has and the growth that they've experienced over the last few years. That's C-suite comps David Eikenberry on CNBC.

PayPal teaming up with the Big 10 and the Big 12 to enable payments directly to student athletes. The Trump Organization has gotten rid of the made in the USA label for the phone it's started selling as part of its new cell service business. Crypto assets may soon be allowed to be considered when you apply for a mortgage. Right now, the money the would-be home buyers

are holding in Bitcoin and other coins are not used as collateral. American homeowners are warned FEMA is not a replacement for insurance coverage. The Federal Emergency Management Agency typically provides aid after federally declared natural disasters. But President Trump said this month FEMA will be phased out after hurricane season. I'm Jessica Edinger CNBC. CNBC is the network for ambitious people.