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Stocks stall, small-caps tumble on hot inflation print

Some fun in single stocks, a listless day for major indexes, and awful price action in small-caps.

8/14/25 4:25PM

A hotter-than-expected reading of July’s producer price index put stocks, and particularly small-caps, on the back foot to start the day.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 managed to bounce back, with the former closing marginally higher and the latter fractionally lower, while the Russell 2000 fell more than 1% on the day.

Healthcare and financials were the best-performing S&P 500 sector ETFs, while materials was at the bottom of the leaderboard with a decline of 1%.

Amazon continued to be a standout positive performer among megacaps, with analysts applauding its expansion into free same-day grocery delivery nationwide for Prime members.

Palantir dipped as Andrew Left, head of short-selling firm Citron Research, said he was betting against the company in light of its lofty valuation.

CoreWeave tanked 15% ahead of its lockup expiry, which allows major shareholders to begin potentially taking profits following the IPO as of now.

Bumble also cratered 15% after two major shareholders — Blackstone and the dating app’s founder and CEO, Whitney Wolfe Herd — announced that they were selling what amounted to roughly one-fifth of shares outstanding.

Intel popped late in the day on a Bloomberg report that the Trump administration was mulling the potential for the government to take a position in the embattled chip company.

TeraWulf posted a massive gain, up nearly 60%, after announcing multibillion-dollar AI hosting deals and news that Alphabet would acquire an 8% stake in the company.

Chinese gaming company NetEase slumped almost 4% after posting underwhelming second-quarter earnings.

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