U.S. companies have announced record spending on share buybacks this year. This may be a positive signal for investors amid geopolitical uncertainty and the onset of one of the historically best months for trading, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-04/-ultimate-dip-buyers-of-stocks-remain-strong-as-buybacks-surge?embedded-checkout=true">writes</a>.

"Major buyers on the downturn" are buying stocks at a record pace. Why it matters.

US stocks opened the main session on May 4 with a slight decline. Market uncertainty increased after <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/v-irane-zaavili-ob-udare-po-voennomu-korablu-ssa-neft-brent-vzletela-vyse-110">contradictory reports</a> that Iran allegedly forced a U.S. patrol ship to turn around near the Strait of Hormuz by launching missiles at it. The U.S. denied this statement.

U.S. stocks began trading lower after reports of an Iranian attack on a patrol ship

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GameStop Corp.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

The Boeing Company

Lockheed Martin Corporation

General Motors Company

Stellantis N.V.

Ford Motor Company

Apple Inc.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc.

MasTec, Inc.

The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.

Colgate-Palmolive Company

The Clorox Company

Rivian Automotive, Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Capital Markets Research, Freedom Broker.

Morning in New York: investors in search of guidance

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

SoftBank Corp.

Avalyn Pharma Inc. Common Stock

Hemab Therapeutics

The operator of the S&amp;P 500 plans to halve the terms of inclusion in the index for SpaceX and other issuers worth over $112 billion. SoftBank is preparing an IPO in the U.S. of a new AI-company with the expectation of a valuation of $100 billion. Uzbekistan will place in London securities of the National Investment Fund with a discount of 20% to the value of its assets. The main events on the IPO market for the week - in our selection.

S&amp;P goes after SpaceX, Uzbekistan fund to offer discount: the main thing about the IPO by Ma. 3

The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite set records for point gains in those five weeks

US stocks rise for fifth straight week: their longest rally in 1.5 years

Stocks on Wall Street continued to rise amid reports of U.S.-Iran deal talks

Veeva Systems Inc.

The broad index of shares of America S&amp;P 500 will include securities of the developer of software for the biomedical industry Veeva Systems. This was reported in the committee S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, which creates and calculates stock indexes, <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-s-p-500s-newest-member-is-this-under-the-radar-software-stock-b828bd5e?mod=newsviewer_click">writes</a> MarketWatch. On the news, Veeva shares rose 11% on the premarket on May 1.

There will be a new stock in the S&amp;P 500, it has already soared 11%. Is it worth buying?

Atlassian Corporation

Twilio Inc.

Reddit, Inc.

Roku, Inc.

Roblox Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

NVIDIA Corporation

Eli Lilly and Company

Caterpillar Inc.

Carrier Global Corporation

Quanta Services, Inc.

Mastercard Incorporated

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Morning in New York: geopolitics pressures - reporting supports

Amazon.com, Inc.

Intel Corporation

The dollar, on the other hand, has its worst month since June 2025

The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq ended their best month since 2020 with records

QUALCOMM Incorporated

KLA Corporation

Carvana Co.

SoFi Technologies, Inc.

Enphase Energy, Inc.

Generac Holdings Inc.

General Dynamics Corporation

Brown-Forman Corporation

Teradyne, Inc.

Morning in New York: macro data and bigtechs will set the direction of trading

Paul Tudor Jones, who predicted the 1987 crash, warns that mega-allocations of stocks like SpaceX could lead to a 30-35% market crash

The trader who predicted "Black Monday" is expecting a new crash. Why does he care about IPOs?

The bank is "turbo-optimistic" on the stock as a whole

US stocks will outperform European stocks, says HSBC. What does it see as the driver of growth?