AI Stocks Close
🔔 AI Stocks Close — Friday, October 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Closes: SPX 7,811.54 (+0.59%) · NDX 30,883.15 (+0.51%) · DJI 51,654.95 (+0.83%)
Day narrative: Stocks clawed back into the green to cap a genuinely volatile week, with tech rebounding from Thursday's OpenAI-revenue scare and crude backing off its hurricane spike. The catch: a telecom bloodbath and a miserable consumer sentiment print kept this from feeling like a victory lap.
Sectors: Best Real Estate (+1.86%) · Worst Communication Services (-1.51%)
Movers:
• MRNA +9.2% — joined the Nasdaq-100 before the open replacing Warner Bros. Discovery, stacked on top of a cancer-vaccine report
• T / VZ / TMUS -7%+ each — SpaceX's ~$8B spectrum deal lit the legacy carriers on fire; tower names AMT, CCI and SBAC ripped, which is why Real Estate topped the board
• SNOW +7.4% — Agentic Marketplace Discovery hit public preview and the data-platform trade caught fire
• NET +5.6% / CRWD +4.6% — security and edge software bid hard all session
• PLTR +5.2% to a fresh high — Barclays initiated Overweight at $265, Goldman upgraded to Buy at $230
• ORCL +4.6% — bounced back from Thursday's 5%+ drubbing as traders reassessed OpenAI's balance sheet
• AAPL -1.1% — reports of a ~15% cut to iPhone 18 Pro component orders on soft demand
After-hours / Earnings:
• DAL -2.9% — missed for the first time in two years and gutted FY26 guidance to $5.10–$5.60 from $6.50–$7.50 on fuel costs; reported pre-bell, essentially flat into the close
• Quiet post-bell tape otherwise — every watchlist name is sitting within a couple ticks of its 4:00 print
Watchlist:
• MU $1,029.00 (-0.66% day, -0.08% AH)
• NVDA $229.28 (-0.52% day, +0.12% AH)
• MSFT $535.07 (+2.38% day)
• GOOGL $351.66 (+0.97% day)
• META $718.67 (-0.31% day)
• AMZN $262.43 (+3.29% day)
• AAPL $336.68 (-1.10% day, -0.20% AH)
• AMD $608.10 (-2.03% day)
• TSLA $382.70 (+2.05% day)
• PLTR $209.05 (+5.17% day)
• ARM $266.28 (-3.27% day)
• SMCI $41.86 (-2.14% day)
• ORCL $141.40 (+4.59% day)
• SOUN $5.39 (-2.45% day)
• IONQ $39.89 (+1.12% day)
• BBAI $2.39 (-1.24% day)
• AVGO $361.54 (+0.39% day)
• CRM $229.08 (+0.56% day)
• ADBE $242.19 (+0.47% day)
• IBM $227.11 (+0.22% day)
• SNOW $368.92 (+7.43% day)
• MDB $385.93 (+3.93% day)
• NET $361.06 (+5.61% day)
• CRWD $275.04 (+4.57% day)
• TSM $453.31 (-1.02% day)
• ASML $1,780.34 (+0.60% day)
Macro:
• UMich preliminary sentiment fell to 46.3 from 48.1, a five-month low and under the 47.3 consensus — current-conditions sub-index hit an all-time low. Joanne Hsu: cost-of-living frustration "continues to mount."
• Crude eased despite Hurricane Isaias bearing down on Gulf Coast refineries — WTI -0.64% to $90.90, Brent -1.08% to $103.20, helped by Trump's Russian diesel supply announcement
• Yields pushed higher across the curve: 2Y 4.795% (+3.9bp), 10Y 5.248% (+1.5bp). That's the uncomfortable part of today's rally
• IPO watch: Anthropic has confidentially filed a Form S-1 with the SEC and picked Nasdaq, following a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation — a debut could land as soon as November. Broadcom has separately agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B for infrastructure. OpenAI has ruled out a 2026 listing and is chasing a ~$30B round at roughly $1.4T. Neither trades yet.
Tomorrow: Weekend, then the real test. Earnings season opens Tuesday, October 13 with JPMorgan, Goldman, Citi and Wells Fargo; Bank of America and Morgan Stanley Wednesday. September CPI lands Wednesday, October 14 — headline expected to accelerate to 3.6% from 3.4%, core around 2.5%. ASML reports Wednesday the 14th, TSMC Thursday the 15th. For the watchlist, that chip pair is the whole ballgame.