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📊 AI Stocks Midday Pulse — Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Indices: SPX 7,641.51 (-0.13%) · NDX 30,352.38 (-0.18%) · DJI 50,825.88 (-0.16%)
Tone: choppy — yields are running the show
Movers so far:
• IBM +2.81% — self-hosted rollout of its Bob agentic platform plus a consulting-sector lift
• BBAI +3.21% — small-cap AI bounce off its 52-week low
• MU -1.68% — blowout fiscal Q4 (revenue +256% y/y) but margin guidance left traders unimpressed
• GOOGL -1.44% — Gemini 4 Argon launched and the stock sold off; JPMorgan says it still needs to re-establish AI leadership
• AAPL -1.37% — Morgan Stanley trimmed its target to $355 on agentic-AI risk to services revenue
Watchlist:
• MU $1,047.26 (-1.68%)
• NVDA $230.36 (+0.87%)
• MSFT $514.01 (+0.22%)
• GOOGL $339.14 (-1.44%)
• META $727.56 (+0.33%)
• AMZN $247.22 (-0.77%)
• AAPL $328.45 (-1.37%)
• AMD $610.85 (-0.15%)
• TSLA $356.34 (+0.43%)
• PLTR $188.49 (+0.77%)
• ARM $292.73 (+1.06%)
• SMCI $41.10 (+0.07%)
• ORCL $137.07 (-0.17%)
• SOUN $6.04 (+0.33%)
• IONQ $43.65 (-0.48%)
• BBAI $2.74 (+3.21%) ⚠️
• AVGO $347.79 (-0.97%)
• CRM $232.83 (+1.42%)
• ADBE $240.17 (+0.10%)
• IBM $226.12 (+2.81%)
• SNOW $339.67 (+0.03%)
• MDB $353.58 (+1.43%)
• NET $350.62 (+0.96%)
• CRWD $263.71 (-0.39%)
• TSM $456.21 (0.00%)
• ASML $1,801.30 (-0.57%)
News:
• The 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched 5.34% — a multi-decade high — capping off the bond market's worst quarter in decades. ISM prices-paid jumped to 77.9 versus 72 expected, while S&P Global manufacturing PMI firmed to 55.9. Jobless claims fell a fourth straight week to 197,000. September payrolls land tomorrow.
• AI private-market watch: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for chip leasing, with Anthropic set to become Broadcom's largest customer next year. OpenAI unveiled Dots, an agent platform squaring off against Meta's Muse. Neither company is publicly traded.
• Crude up about 3% after China suspended fuel exports, pushing energy to the top of the sector board.
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