AI Stocks Close
🔔 AI Stocks Close — Monday, October 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Closes: SPX 7,773.99 (+0.66%) · NDX ~31,076 (+0.87%) · DJI 51,267.90 (+0.18%)
Day narrative: Mega-cap tech dragged the whole tape uphill, pushing the Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq-100 to fresh records while the Dow barely budged. Bonds were the uninvited guest — the 10-year pressed toward 5.31%, and equities simply shrugged.
Sectors: Best Communication Services (+1.17%) · Worst Real Estate (-0.34%)
Movers:
• PTC +34.8% — Schneider Electric agreed to buy the industrial software maker for $22.6B, all cash
• NET +3.1% — Cloudflare extended its run on AI-security and data-platform momentum
• TSM +2.8% — intraday record on reports of early-stage Terafab collaboration talks tied to Musk
• NVDA +2.1% — all-time high; buyback authorization lifted to $235B, BNP target to $345
• TSLA +2.2% — Q3 deliveries of 486,532 cleanly topped the ~464K consensus
• CRM -2.1% — Salesforce lagged a green software tape, the day's notable large-cap software loser
Watchlist:
• MU $1,063.89 (-1.02% day, -0.04% AH)
• NVDA $238.90 (+2.12% day, flat AH)
• MSFT $525.18 (+1.48% day)
• GOOGL $346.47 (+0.86% day)
• META $741.90 (+1.90% day, +0.05% AH)
• AMZN $251.40 (-0.05% day, +0.11% AH)
• AAPL $332.89 (-0.24% day, +0.07% AH)
• AMD $631.75 (-0.34% day)
• TSLA $378.69 (+2.18% day, +0.16% AH)
• PLTR $189.40 (+0.34% day, -0.10% AH)
• ARM $303.05 (-1.44% day)
• SMCI $43.19 (-1.14% day, +0.28% AH)
• ORCL $142.55 (+0.18% day)
• SOUN $5.88 (+0.68% day)
• IONQ $42.97 (-1.83% day)
• BBAI $2.62 (-1.13% day)
• AVGO $362.51 (+2.08% day, -0.01% AH)
• CRM $229.79 (-2.09% day)
• ADBE $238.79 (+0.46% day)
• IBM $221.58 (-0.48% day)
• SNOW $338.99 (-0.60% day)
• MDB $359.23 (+0.35% day)
• NET $359.70 (+3.05% day, -0.50% AH)
• CRWD $272.67 (+0.97% day)
• TSM $485.80 (+2.75% day, +0.07% AH)
• ASML $1,859.86 (-0.40% day)
Macro:
• ISM services eased to 54.9 in September from 55.4 — still expanding, just slower. The prices-paid component jumped to 74 from 72.6, which is the line item that should worry you
• 10-year Treasury +3bp to ~5.31%, 30-year near 5.70% — a global long-end problem, not a US-only one
• Crude slid back after poking above $100 earlier
• IPO/funding watch: Anthropic — reports have it targeting a Nasdaq listing with investors eyeing a $2T+ valuation and a raise approaching $100B; separately Broadcom is said to be lending Anthropic up to $42B for chip infrastructure. OpenAI — Altman reiterated no 2026 IPO. Neither trades publicly; headline flags only
Tomorrow: August trade balance, Atlanta Fed GDPNow, LMI logistics index. Fed's Williams (1:05pm ET) and Bowman (2:45pm ET) speak. Earnings: RPM, Lamb Weston, Apogee, Neogen before the bell; Constellation Brands, Penguin Solutions, Worthington Steel after. Thin week on data — Fed commentary and Treasury auctions carry the weight.