AI Stocks Midday
📊 AI Stocks Midday Pulse — Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Indices: SPX 7,628 (+0.1%) · NDX 28,357 (-0.1%) · DJI 52,686 (+0.4%)
Tone: choppy — big dispersion under a flat tape
Movers so far:
• SMCI -12.8% — AI server names gutted on Nvidia leadership shock, despite last week's blowout quarter
• NVDA -5.6% — Jensen Huang resigned effective immediately; CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO. Was down 13% at the open
• AVGO +5.2% / AMD +4.5% — straight share-shift trade, with BofA lifting AMD's target to $700
• IONQ -7.8% · BBAI -7.6% — high-beta AI/quantum speculative names taking the brunt
• ⚠️ Unusual: breadth is fine, the Dow's green, but the AI complex is tearing itself apart internally
Watchlist:
• MU $785.36 (-3.20%) ⚠️
• NVDA $163.95 (-5.63%) ⚠️
• MSFT $528.95 (+1.50%)
• GOOGL $301.90 (+2.88%)
• META $624.36 (-0.70%)
• AMZN $269.51 (+1.25%)
• AAPL $356.40 (+0.29%)
• AMD $577.66 (+4.48%) ⚠️
• TSLA $391.37 (+0.14%)
• PLTR $172.39 (-0.01%)
• ARM $199.86 (-1.72%)
• SMCI $26.55 (-12.75%) ⚠️
• ORCL $127.41 (-0.76%)
• SOUN $3.68 (-5.88%) ⚠️
• IONQ $31.41 (-7.80%) ⚠️
• BBAI $2.13 (-7.61%) ⚠️
• AVGO $363.25 (+5.22%) ⚠️
• CRM $218.46 (+0.21%)
• ADBE $240.03 (+1.02%)
• IBM $246.71 (-0.61%)
• SNOW $299.63 (-0.53%)
• MDB $340.50 (+0.70%)
• NET $320.01 (+1.59%)
• CRWD $229.66 (+0.26%)
• TSM $405.84 (-1.82%)
• ASML $1,509.68 (-1.61%)
News:
• 10-year yield up 8bps to 5.09%; jobless claims came in at 200K vs 195K expected. Brent's at $93 on US-Iran tension.
• IPO watch: Anthropic confirmed it's going ahead with its IPO on November 19 despite the AI tape. TSMC says it'll put up to $1B to work — $500M for Anthropic shares at the IPO price, $500M in OpenAI preferred.