Invesco shares surged Friday after the investment manager said it's looking to change the structure of its popular Invesco QQQ Trust exchange-traded fund, in a move that could make it more profitable for Invesco.

Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock saw a massive rally across the first half of 2025's trading. The tech company's share price rose 80.3% across the stretch against the backdrop of a 5.5% gain for the S&P 500 index, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence

The IPO Pulse actually peaked last October and has been slowing since then. But the downturn certainly accelerated in March and April as the stock market sold off, with the IPO Pulse falling to a 1½-year low in April (chart below, blue line).

Dollar Tree Inc. (NASDAQ:DLTR) reached a new 52-week peak of $109.74, reflecting the company’s strong momentum in the retail sector. With a market value of $22.85 billion, the stock has surged 50% over the past six months and gained over 44% year-to-date,

Nvidia owns a 7% stake in CoreWeave, and made it possible for the young company to be the first to launch its latest GPUs. In February, CoreWeave became the first hyperscaler to make Nvidia's new Blackwell architecture broadly available -- and it just did the same recently with the latest iteration, Blackwell Ultra.

Nvidia took a $4.5 billion write-off in its latest quarter on unsold H20 chips that it was unable to repurpose for other markets. If sales of these high-volume chips to China resume, a reversal of this write-off could boost earnings.