{"id":96,"date":"2026-07-15T20:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:52:52","slug":"ibm-suffered-its-biggest-single-day-stock-plunge-since-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/ibm-suffered-its-biggest-single-day-stock-plunge-since-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Suffered Its Biggest Single-Day Stock Plunge Since 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IBM suffered its biggest single-day stock plunge since 1968, wiping out nearly $70 billion in market value<\/strong> after reporting a weak second-quarter update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcc5 Date and Time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, July 15, 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> The massive market sell-off triggered during early morning trading hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcca Exact Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Drop:<\/strong> IBM shares <strong>plunged 25.21%<\/strong> in a single trading session.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Cause:<\/strong> IBM CEO Arvind Krishna confirmed enterprise clients are aggressively freezing traditional software spending. Instead, they are pivoting all capital directly toward AI hardware, servers, and storage infrastructure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Ripple Effect:<\/strong> The sudden crash sent shockwaves through global enterprise tech. Major tech stocks like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Accenture all traded lower, while Indian IT stock indexes immediately declined by nearly 2%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"501\" data-id=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnews.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" style=\"width:416px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnews.jpeg 399w, https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnews-239x300.jpeg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"501\" data-id=\"98\" src=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnewsai.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" style=\"width:431px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnewsai.jpeg 399w, https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnewsai-239x300.jpeg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"501\" data-id=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnewswithmoustacheguy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"width:415px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnewswithmoustacheguy.jpeg 399w, https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ibmnewswithmoustacheguy-239x300.jpeg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"404\" height=\"495\" data-id=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/followibmnews.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/followibmnews.jpeg 404w, https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/followibmnews-245x300.jpeg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM suffered its biggest single-day stock plunge since 1968, wiping out nearly $70 billion in market value after reporting a weak second-quarter update. \ud83d\udcc5 Date and Time \ud83d\udcca Exact Data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-le.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}