AI Stocks Midday
📊 AI Stocks Midday Pulse — Monday, July 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Indices: SPX 7,405 (-0.20%) · NDX 24,907 (-0.40%) · DJI 52,133 (+0.20%)
Tone: Choppy — chip carnage and an IBM earnings bomb collide with a cybersecurity bid; mega-cap earnings all week keeping everyone cautious.
Movers so far:
• IBM -9.1% — worst intraday drop on record; Q2 revenue missed by $660M, warned clients are shifting budgets from software to servers and cybersecurity hardware
• AMD -6.8% — chip sector contagion after China mass-production report on domestic chipmaking equipment
• ASML -6.1% — same China equipment story hits the EUV monopoly hard
• NVDA -4.4% — dual headwinds: the China equipment report plus an Nvidia/OpenAI $250B data-center financing deal raising balance-sheet concerns
• AAPL +1.4% — reclaimed world's most valuable company title from Nvidia ($4.95T market cap); earnings Thursday
Watchlist:
• MU ~$925 (-1.6%)
• NVDA $197.72 (-4.4%) ⚠️
• MSFT ~$418 (-0.4%)
• GOOGL ~$382 (-0.5%)
• META ~$691 (-0.4%)
• AMZN ~$261 (-0.3%)
• AAPL ~$337 (+1.4%)
• AMD $486.57 (-6.8%) ⚠️
• TSLA $311.40 (-3.5%) ⚠️
• PLTR ~$123 (-0.5%)
• ARM ~$252 (-3.1%) ⚠️
• SMCI ~$30.10 (-0.9%)
• ORCL ~$286 (-0.6%)
• SOUN ~$16.90 (-1.2%)
• IONQ $32.96 (-1.6%)
• BBAI ~$4.55 (-1.1%)
• AVGO ~$389 (-1.5%)
• CRM ~$328 (-2.1%)
• ADBE ~$479 (-4.3%) ⚠️
• IBM ~$195 (-9.1%) ⚠️
• SNOW ~$196 (-0.7%)
• MDB ~$328 (-0.4%)
• NET ~$132 (+2.3%)
• CRWD ~$449 (+1.9%)
• TSM ~$207 (-2.4%)
• ASML $1,649.11 (-6.1%) ⚠️
News:
• Fed decision Wednesday, same day MSFT and META report; AAPL and AMZN report Thursday — this week is the week.
• Oil off 7%+ as US and Iran pause military strikes; Brent sliding below $90. Geopolitical relief valve doing the Dow's heavy lifting today.
⚠️ Anthropic IPO Watch: Investor roadshow meetings underway as of mid-July; October debut eyed. Confidential S-1 filed June 1st at $965B valuation — now ahead of OpenAI ($852B). OpenAI CFO says they're not ready; no firm 2026 timeline.