Weekly Markets Roundup: Jobs Shock Ends Wall Street's 10-Week Streak

The week in markets: May 31 to June 6, 2026. It was a week of two halves. Wall Street spent the first four sessions extending records, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ripping to an all-time high on Thursday as money rotated out of high-flying chips into old-school value names. Then Friday's May jobs report landed far hotter than anyone expected, revived talk of a Federal Reserve rate hike, and detonated a semiconductor selloff that wiped roughly $1 trillion from US markets and snapped the S&P 500's longest weekly winning streak in years. Crypto fared no better: bitcoin crashed from a fresh record toward $64,000 as US spot ETFs logged the longest outflow streak on record before finally turning a corner on Friday. Here are the biggest stories of the week and what they mean heading deeper into June.

Top Stock Stories of the Week

A Hot Jobs Report Snaps the 10-Week Streak

The number that defined the week dropped Friday morning. US employers added 172,000 nonfarm payrolls in May, more than double the roughly 80,000 economists had penciled in, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3 percent, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bloomberg. Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent on the month and 3.4 percent on the year, and prior months were revised higher by a combined 93,000, with March lifted to 214,000 and April to 179,000. A labor market that strong, against a backdrop of still-sticky inflation, flipped the policy narrative on its head. As we previewed in our June 5 morning analysis, a hot print risked hardening the higher-for-longer story. It did more than that: traders moved to price an outright rate hike by year-end. The S&P 500 fell 2.64 percent to 7,383.74, leaving it down about 2.6 percent on the week, its first weekly decline in 10 weeks and the end of a historic run.

The Chip Rout Wipes Roughly $1 Trillion

The selloff was concentrated where the gains had been. The Nasdaq Composite plunged 4.18 percent to 25,709.43, its worst single session since April 2025, per TheStreet. Semiconductors led the carnage: Marvell sank about 16 percent, Micron about 13 percent, and AMD and Intel each lost around 11 percent, while Nvidia fell roughly 6 percent and Broadcom dropped more than 7 percent. The trigger had been building all week. Broadcom's underwhelming guidance for AI chip sales, flagged in our June 4 analysis, set off a rotation out of the group that Friday's rate scare turned into a stampede. The combined market-value destruction across the chip complex and mega-cap tech reached roughly $1 trillion in a single session, a reminder of how concentrated the leadership of this rally had become.

The Dow's Quiet Win Before the Storm

Lost in Friday's red was how well the rotation worked earlier in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ripped 874.86 points, or 1.73 percent, to a record 51,561.93 on Thursday as investors fled chips for industrials, financials, and other value names, a tape one wrap summed up as old-school stocks beating AI, per SWISSINFO. Even after Friday's 1.35 percent drop to 50,866.78, the Dow finished the week roughly flat, a stark contrast to the Nasdaq's near 4.7 percent weekly loss. The divergence is the story for market structure: when the rate narrative turns hawkish, the highest-multiple growth names carry the most downside, and the broadening into value that had looked healthy on Thursday became a partial cushion by Friday.

Nvidia's N1X Debut Opened the Week on AI Optimism

It is worth remembering how the week began. Nvidia opened June by unveiling its Arm-based N1X PC chip at Computex, the headline of a buoyant start we covered in our June 1 morning analysis, as futures pushed higher after a nine-week record run. That optimism powered the S&P to another record of 7,610 midweek before Broadcom and then payrolls changed the mood. The whipsaw from Computex euphoria to a $1 trillion chip washout inside five sessions captures just how sensitive AI leadership has become to any shift in the rate outlook.

Top Crypto Stories of the Week

Bitcoin Crashes Off Its $74,533 Record

Crypto had its worst week since July 2024. Bitcoin set a record of $74,533.20 on May 28 and then crashed toward $64,000, a drop of nearly 14 percent in seven days, as the AI-led risk rally that had powered global assets stalled. The mood turned outright fearful: the Crypto Fear and Greed Index plunged to 12, deep in Extreme Fear territory, on June 3. The slide tracked the breakdown we followed day by day, including our June 4 analysis, when bitcoin first cracked the March pivot. With equities wobbling and the rate narrative hardening, the highest-beta corner of risk assets took the hardest hit.

A Record 13-Day ETF Exodus Finally Breaks

The mechanical driver of the rout was relentless institutional selling. US spot bitcoin ETFs logged 13 consecutive days of net outflows from May 15 to June 3, the longest streak since the products launched in early 2024, shedding about $4.33 billion and 59,351 BTC, per BeInCrypto. The 20-day trailing window reached $5.42 billion and 73,080 BTC, the heaviest reading on record. The redemptions were self-reinforcing, forcing issuers to sell the underlying, which pressured spot, which drove more redemptions. The streak finally snapped Friday: spot bitcoin and ether ETFs posted small net inflows on June 5, the first turn in nearly three weeks, per CoinDesk. Whether that marks a genuine bottom or a brief reprieve is the dominant near-term crypto question.

Solana Crosses $1 Billion in ETF Assets

Beyond the majors, the structural news favored Solana. Total assets across US spot Solana ETFs crossed roughly $1.09 billion, a milestone for a product line that launched only late last year, even as SOL funds joined the broader redemption wave during the week, per Analytics Insight and CoinDesk. The traditional-finance footprint kept deepening too: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management established a referral arrangement with Galaxy Digital that lets eligible clients lend crypto, including SOL, in exchange for shares in spot crypto exchange-traded products, moving holdings into regulated brokerage wrappers without triggering a taxable sale. That kind of plumbing matters more for the long-term thesis than any single week of price action.

XRP's Regulatory and Stablecoin Catalysts

XRP supplied the week's clearest forward catalysts. Market-structure legislation advanced, with the CLARITY Act sitting before policymakers on a July 4 target date, and Ripple kept expanding its stablecoin reach, bringing the RLUSD token to Turkey, a market with close to $200 billion in annual crypto volume. The flows had been supportive into the downturn: US spot XRP ETFs drew $118.29 million of net inflows in May, the strongest ETF month of 2026 for the asset. Even as every major coin sold off this week, XRP's regulatory and adoption pipeline kept it among the more constructive top-50 stories.

HYPE Bucks the Tide

One name stayed green through the carnage. Hyperliquid's HYPE was the lone crypto ETF segment to attract inflows during the 13-day bleed, and Grayscale launched a Hyperliquid product, HYPG, pitched as the lowest-fee US spot HYPE vehicle, per CoinDesk. As the record outflow streak broke late in the week, several higher-beta altcoins, XRP and Solana among them, staged a relief bounce off the lows, a tentative sign that the worst of the forced selling may have passed.

M&A, Partnerships, Deals

The week's marquee corporate move came from Omaha. Berkshire Hathaway agreed to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison for $72.50 per share in cash, an equity value of about $6.8 billion and an enterprise value near $8.5 billion, a 24 percent premium to the stock's prior close, per CNBC. The deal deepens Berkshire's bet on US housing and stands out as one of the first major strategic acquisitions under Greg Abel, Warren Buffett's successor, who took the CEO role at the start of the year. Taylor Morrison's management, including CEO Sheryl Palmer, is set to stay on, and the transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026. In digital-asset plumbing, a notable defensive alliance formed: JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citi plan to launch a shared tokenized-deposit network next year to blunt the threat that stablecoins pose to bank deposits, a sign incumbents are racing to own the rails rather than cede them.

Regulatory & Macro

The macro pivot of the week was the Fed repricing. Coming into June, traders had been positioned for essentially no rate cuts in 2026. The hot jobs print changed the conversation entirely, with markets moving to price the risk of an outright rate hike before year-end as the labor market stabilizes against a backdrop of inflation that remains above target, per Yahoo Finance. Treasury yields rose and the dollar firmed, the classic response to a higher-for-even-longer path. That sets up the June 16-17 FOMC meeting, the first real test of how Chair Kevin Warsh reads a sticky-inflation, strong-jobs economy. Geopolitics supplied the week's other macro swing: US strikes on Iranian radar and drone sites early in the week sent WTI crude spiking past $92, as detailed in our June 2 analysis, before de-escalation hopes let the barrel ease back toward $92 by Friday and drained gold's safe-haven bid back toward $4,444.

Week Ahead: What to Watch

The catalyst stack for the second week of June is dominated by inflation and the countdown to the Fed:

• The May CPI report, due mid-June. After the hot jobs print, a firm inflation reading would cement the hawkish repricing and pressure both high-multiple tech and crypto, while a cooler number would offer the rate-scare narrative its first off-ramp.
• The June 16-17 FOMC meeting. Every data point now feeds the first true policy test under Chair Warsh. The market has moved toward pricing hike risk, so the statement, the dot plot, and the press conference all carry outsized weight for direction across assets.
• Bitcoin ETF flows. Friday's small net inflow broke a record 13-day outflow streak. Whether that turn holds or fades is the dominant near-term crypto signal, and it will set the tone for the altcoin relief bounce in XRP, Solana, and HYPE.
• The chip complex and the Iran file. Watch whether semiconductors stabilize after a $1 trillion washout, and whether the US-Iran de-escalation holds or another headline rebuilds the oil war premium.

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