Defense stocks surged amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East while military budgets continue to expand. Click here for the Top 10 Defense Stocks.

Here are some of the stocks making the biggest moves in midday trading. CoreWeave — The cloud company's stock popped 8% after it announced a multiyear agreement with Perplexity. The AI company will power its next-generation inference workloads on CoreWeave's platform.

The US war with Iran rippled through markets Monday: Oil spiked. Investors piled into gold and the US dollar. But stocks…shrugged?

The best cheap stocks belong to companies that are fundamentally strong but experiencing a brief, temporary setback, says Steven Conners, founder and president of Conners Wealth Management in Scottsdale, Arizona. What you want to avoid are cheap stocks that don't have a "catalyst to improve their valuation."

Memory and storage stocks are getting hit hard in early trading Tuesday, with the catalyst coming from halfway around the world. South Korea’s KOSPI index cratered overnight as fears over the Iran conflict reignited concerns about a major energy price shock — specifically for liquefied natural gas.