AI Stocks Close
🔔 AI Stocks Close — Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Closes: SPX 7,670.84 (-0.16%) · NDX 30,339.33 (+0.21%) · DJI 51,350.99 (-0.25%)
Day narrative: The bond market ran the show — the 30-year punched up to 5.62%, its highest since 2002, and a consumer confidence print at a 12-year low knocked the legs out from under the early tech bid. Stocks closed off their session lows, and mega-cap AI was the only corner that held green.
Sectors: Best Utilities (+1.17%) · Worst Energy (-0.90%)
Movers:
• ORCL +3.99% — dip-buyers stepped back in as the RPO backlog north of $600B got re-litigated in Oracle's favor
• ARM +3.65% — sharp bounce after Monday's 8.7% drubbing, the Nasdaq's worst name that session
• ASML +3.58% — UBS reiterated Buy, leaning on the EUV monopoly and AI capex runway
• META +3.24% — Muse AI assistant momentum reasserted itself after yesterday's enterprise-platform stumble
• AAPL -2.66% — reports that CEO John Ternus is reshaping management and product development spooked holders into Q4 earnings
• SMCI -1.82% — server names lagged as yields squeezed the high-multiple hardware trade
After-hours / Earnings:
• CNXC — Q3 results due on the tape right now, call at 5:00 PM ET; options were pricing a ±20% move with shares near 52-week lows
• IOVA +33.5% AH — raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $410–420M, the day's biggest late move
• Indexes barely budged after the bell — SPX futures +0.07%, NDX +0.06%
Watchlist:
• MU $1,065.08 (+1.05% day, +0.18% AH)
• NVDA $227.21 (-0.72% day, +0.18% AH)
• MSFT $508.96 (-0.05% day)
• GOOGL $340.92 (-0.53% day)
• META $738.79 (+3.24% day)
• AMZN $246.70 (+0.22% day)
• AAPL $329.40 (-2.66% day)
• AMD $607.57 (-0.05% day)
• TSLA $352.90 (-1.27% day)
• PLTR $186.97 (-0.27% day)
• ARM $293.67 (+3.65% day)
• SMCI $41.02 (-1.82% day)
• ORCL $137.90 (+3.99% day)
• SOUN $5.84 (+0.09% day)
• IONQ $43.90 (-1.54% day)
• BBAI $2.66 (-0.14% day)
• AVGO $355.10 (+1.58% day)
• CRM $225.48 (-0.79% day, -0.68% AH)
• ADBE $233.18 (+0.94% day)
• IBM $220.01 (-0.30% day)
• SNOW $330.51 (+0.73% day)
• MDB $337.19 (+0.75% day)
• NET $352.05 (-0.55% day, -0.44% AH)
• CRWD $262.74 (+1.35% day)
• TSM $457.08 (+0.93% day)
• ASML $1,834.86 (+3.58% day)
Macro:
• Consumer confidence 81.9 vs 89.0 expected — a 12-year low
• JOLTS job openings 7.097M vs 7.228M expected
• 30-year Treasury 5.62%, highest since 2002; 10-year up ~4bp to 5.28%
• 30-year mortgage averaging 7.58%, near a 3-year high
• Crude eased as Saudi Arabia resumed pipeline exports
• IPO watch: Anthropic's leaked S-1 landed today — $2T valuation target, November debut possible, FY25 net loss of $42B, $518B committed to cloud and data centers, and 80 pages of risk factors warning of "catastrophic or existential risk to humanity." OpenAI separately shelved a frontier model on safety grounds.
Tomorrow: Micron reports fiscal Q4 after the close (call 2:30 PM MT) — the single biggest AI-memory read of the week. Before that: August core PCE, final Q2 GDP, and ADP employment change. Heavy tape.