Equities desk · Evening edition · Friday, September 25, 2026
Prices in this edition were taken live, not from stored closes. They were read at the Evening edition slot on Friday, September 25, 2026. Anything named as a cause may come from a headline the desk was given.
The calm holds on the surface, but the ground under it is exactly what's shifting. The eased again to 14.84, its lowest close in this stretch, and the stayed flat, extending two sessions of stopped narrowing rather than reversal. What's new is what's happening underneath: a Treasury selloff has pushed the 10-year yield up over 11% this past month, dragging the 30-year mortgage rate to 7.45%, its highest since April 2024. That's the kind of pressure that historically shows up in stocks long after it shows up in yields.
did the real work today, rallying 3.66% after folding Copilot's scattered features into one app aimed at Anthropic's turf, a move that lines up with Pershing Square's freshly disclosed stake. Meta gave back more ground, a second straight losing session even as an analyst call this week framed 2027 as its breakout year; nothing here explains the drop. Akamai added to Wednesday's Anthropic-deal pop, though only a sliver of it, while Oracle slid again even as its Japan unit's own rally stays a story apart. Costco climbed on quarter results despite lingering membership caution. Most tracked names finished higher, but the median lagged the index, so this was still large-cap led.
What's still unproven: Meta's slide, now two sessions and more than 3% today alone, still has no headline behind it, and a bullish 2027 call this week only sharpens the contradiction. Bank of America's new caution about bond-market anxiety and financial-stock weakness doesn't match today's tape, where JPMorgan rose and the financial sector gained; that's a call to watch against next week's data, not lean on now. 's warned-about margin pressure from pricier iPhone components didn't touch today's 1.53% gain either, so treat the warning as a future quarter's problem, not today's price action.
Microsoft breaks its month-long 490s-500s range, jumping on today's Copilot-Anthropic competitive pivot.
Meta slides for a second day from Wednesday's 777.59 peak, with today's headlines silent on why.
Akamai holds only a sliver of Wednesday's Anthropic-deal spike after fading from its 118.44 peak.
38%
3 of 8 tracked indices above their 50-day average
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Moved 8.0%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 6.5%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 4.2%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 3.9%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
Microsoft consolidated Copilot capabilities to compete with Anthropic, a same-day AI product move tied to the rally.
News event dated 2026-09-25, MarketWatch Top Stories: Microsoft consolidates Copilot capabilities to compete with Anthropic in AI applications
Moved 3.7%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 3.4%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 3.3%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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