Global Markets Roundup: Oil Falls, US GDP Misses, Yen Surges, Apple Profit Beats but Stock Drops

MacroEarningsDigital Finance Impact 4

โดย สำนักข่าวอีไฟแนนซ์ไทย·Read original

Summary · why it matters

Crude oil prices closed lower amid volatile trading. West Texas Intermediate crude for September delivery settled at 83.59 dollars a barrel, down 87 cents, while North Sea Brent crude for September delivery closed at 89.03 dollars a barrel, down 1.71 dollars. Investors assessed plans to establish a Saudi-led maritime coalition to strengthen defense cooperation in the Red Sea. Meanwhile, the US Commerce Department reported that the headline Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose 3.7 percent in June from a year earlier, slowing from 4.1 percent in May, while the core PCE index increased 3.3 percent, down from 3.4 percent. US gross domestic product expanded at a 1.5 percent annualized pace in the second quarter, according to the advance estimate, missing economists' forecast of 2.1 percent. The yen surged against the US dollar by the most in over two years, strengthening as much as 3.3 percent intraday after reports that Japanese authorities intervened in the currency market again, closing at 159.53 yen per dollar. Apple reported better-than-expected results for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, with net profit of 29.79 billion dollars, up from 23.43 billion dollars a year earlier, but the stock tumbled more than 8 percent in after-hours trading after the company issued a weaker-than-expected current-quarter outlook due to supply constraints. Amazon posted second-quarter net profit of 62.6 billion dollars, up from 18.2 billion dollars a year ago, with its AWS cloud business generating revenue of 42.2 billion dollars, topping estimates. Amazon shares surged more than 10 percent after hours. Shares of major South Korean chipmakers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics jumped over 20 percent, tracking gains in US technology stocks after strong results from Amazon and Microsoft restored confidence in artificial intelligence investment.