Overview
- The S&P 500 finished roughly flat on Friday, the Dow fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq rose 0.3%, capping a week that left major indexes little changed after swings tied to shifting Greenland tariff headlines.
- Intel sank about 17% after forecasting weaker-than-expected first‑quarter revenue and profit and citing supply shortages, while AMD advanced on expectations of CPU share gains.
- Gold notched another record near $5,000 per ounce as investors sought safety during bouts of volatility.
- U.S. natural‑gas prices surged more than 60% on the week to multi‑year highs as an Arctic cold front lifted heating demand and threatened output.
- Chip sentiment diverged after a Bloomberg report said Chinese officials told Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance they can prepare orders for Nvidia’s H200 AI chips.