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U.S. equities enter a holiday-thinned Monday after Friday’s 0.59% S&P gain, with bond desks closed on the SIFMA calendar while JPMorgan, Goldman, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo report before Wednesday’s CPI.
The Cboe Volatility Index rose to 14.84 on Friday even as the Dow and Nasdaq advanced, a split that sets up a bank-earnings and inflation week for U.S. holders.
The S&P 500 closed at 7,811.54 on October 9 as SpaceX’s deal to buy 800 MHz spectrum from Grain Management sent T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon down double digits while Crown Castle and software names led the index higher.
The S&P 500 closed down 0.5 percent at 7,765.36 Thursday as Brent crude near $104 pressured tech leaders, while Treasury yields swung from multi-year highs after a strong 30-year auction.
U.S. stocks retreated Wednesday as long-dated Treasury yields touched multi-decade highs—the Dow fell 341 points, the S&P 500 closed at 7,801.77, and the 30-year yield reached 5.70 percent before a $39 billion 10-year auction steadied shorter maturities.
The S&P 500 finished Tuesday at 7,818.93, its 28th record close of 2026, as traders looked past oil volatility toward bank earnings due next week.
Schneider Electric’s $22.6 billion cash bid for PTC sent the software maker up 33.5 percent and helped lift the Nasdaq to 27,477 even as the 10-year Treasury yield hovered near 5.31 percent.
With Delta set to open airline earnings on Friday, Barclays and Raymond James warn that jet fuel near $4 a gallon is swallowing fare increases—and American Airlines already guided to a third-quarter loss.
After Friday’s payroll shock, investors enter a new week focused on Monday’s ISM services reading, a 10-year yield near 5.28%, and whether tech can keep carrying the Nasdaq.
Friday’s 29,000-job payroll print sent small-cap and tech shares higher while traders slashed October Fed hike bets, even as Treasury yields reversed part of the morning drop.
U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September and unemployment rose to 4.2%, a miss that sent stock futures higher as traders bet the Fed will pause in October.
The S&P 500 finished September at 7,651.54 after a morning inflation relief rally reversed, leaving the index down for the month while the 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.29 percent.
The Dow closed at 51,349.92 on Tuesday as bond yields hovered near multidecade highs, while morning data showed core PCE inflation cooled to 3.0% in August.
MongoDB shares plunged after CEO CJ Desai left for Meta, while rising Treasury yields and an OpenAI training pause kept the S&P 500 from holding its record despite Nvidia’s buyback news.
U.S. equity futures fell Monday as crude jumped toward $108 a barrel after President Trump rejected an Iranian peace proposal, while traders priced in back-to-back Federal Reserve rate hikes.
With U.S. equity markets closed for the weekend, investors are positioning for Wednesday’s August PCE report—consensus near 3.8 percent headline and 3.4 percent core—plus a batch of Fed speeches before Friday’s jobs data.
A 3.4% drop in Brent and hopes for U.S.-Iran talks in New York helped the S&P 500 close at 7,743.41, up 0.51%, snapping a three-week losing streak. The Dow led, the Nasdaq lagged, and the 10-year eased from its 5.20% weekly peak.
The S&P 500 closed at 7,704.13, essentially flat, as a Trump-Xi truce extension to Jan. 10, 2027 met rising Treasury yields and oil prices, leaving holders near record highs to weigh trade optimism against the cost of capital.
RTX Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. shares led defense gainers in Wednesday’s cash session after a drone strike wounded civilians in Eilat, widening call volume on Patriot and THAAD-linked names as desks repriced Middle East interceptor replenishment before Q4 foreign military sale paperwork clears Congress.
Nvidia Corp. one-week options implied volatility climbed ahead of Thursday’s Commerce BIS advanced-chip rule publication, widening call skew as desks hedge Blackwell export thresholds while the Nasdaq tech complex treats regulatory headline risk as a single-name event not fully priced in index beta.
Palantir Technologies Inc. shares rose after the U.S. Army disclosed a Pacific theater logistics dashboard award, extending government software revenue visibility while peers traded flat on defense budget headlines that did not yet change FY26 obligation totals in public trackers.
Oracle Corp. shares outpaced the Nasdaq Composite as cloud booking disclosures beat consensus during a Federal Reserve communication week, forcing desks to reprice backlog conversion while macro headlines moved index futures more than single-name software models assumed.
MediaTek shares settled at NT$5,010 as AI ASIC design wins drew buyers alongside TSMC’s NT$2,480 close, pairing Taiwan’s leading fabless chip designer with its foundry anchor in one session.
The TAIEX finished 23 points under its all-time high as semiconductor heavyweights drove turnover past NT$820 billion, the busiest cash session Taiwan’s market has printed in months.
Japan Airlines and ANA Holdings shares face a repricing test when Tokyo trading resumes, with storm tallies showing about 135 JAL and 140 ANA flight cancellations tied to Typhoon Dujuan just as Silver Week travel demand peaks.
Nikkei 225 index futures held gains built after the Bank of Japan's 18 September hike while the cash market stays shut for Silver Week, with the cash close at 65,018.95 anchoring thin holiday-session positioning.
RTX Corp. shares hovered near record levels as President Donald Trump’s UNGA-week threats against Iran revived bets on Patriot interceptor replenishment, even as oil prices eased and defense names debated how much war premium is already priced in.
Diamondback Energy shares held firm as management guided investors toward lower routine flaring in the Permian after EPA’s May methane rule phase-out, leaning on midstream fixes and new federal guidance on temporary flares.