News desk · Evening edition · Monday, September 28, 2026

Equities have stayed near record territory, keeping the broader bull regime intact, even as risk appetite gyrates day to day. The Nikkei rallied 1.30% to 65,878 while U.S. breadth divergence deepened, with S&P 500 components split nearly evenly for and against the index. MongoDB shares plunged over 20% on CEO Desai's exit to Meta, and Financials fell 1.19% as Treasury yields extended their climb.

auto-generated · written Sep 28, 2026, 4:31 PM EDT

Prices in this edition were taken live, not from stored closes. They were read at the Evening edition slot on Monday, September 28, 2026. Anything named as a cause may come from a headline the desk was given.

Equities

MongoDB shares fall over 20% after CEO Desai departs for Meta role
breadth divergence deepens, with nearly half of components now negative beta
Anthropic launches Sonnet 5.5, calling it incremental rather than a frontier advance

Sector and commodities

Real Estate sector reverses to -0.51% today, from +0.02% at the last session
Energy sector's gain eases to just 0.10% even as Hormuz tensions persist
Trump announces $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel plant, the largest ever built in the US

Crypto

extends its slide to $83,436, down 0.56% since first flagged

Fixed income

10-year Treasury yield climbs to 5.24%, up 2.75% since the Fed's Williams spoke

Nikkei 225 (N225)+1.3%

Nikkei's 1.3% jump to 65,878 is today's lead mover, reversing last session's -0.73% dip.

Shanghai Composite (000001.SS)-1.2%

Shanghai fell 1.22% as China's industrial profit growth slowed to just 4.2%, the year's weakest pace.

Nasdaq Composite (IXIC)-0.9%

Nasdaq fell 0.92% today but still holds a 1.05% monthly gain despite MongoDB's plunge weighing on breadth.