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News desk · Morning edition · Friday, October 9, 2026
Equities have stayed near record territory, keeping the broader bull regime intact, even as risk appetite gyrates day to day. Breadth above the 200-day average snapped back to 88% from 63%, and the Fear & Greed Index ticked up to 43 as the VIX fell 2.21%, unwinding much of Thursday's AI-selloff shock. A fresh round of AI-chip weakness hit Nvidia and peers again on the OpenAI revenue report, even as the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both edged higher on the day.
auto-generated · written Oct 9, 2026, 9:51 AM EDT
Prices in this edition were taken live, not from stored closes. They were read at the Morning edition slot on Friday, October 9, 2026. Anything named as a cause may come from a headline the desk was given.
Equities
- slides to $231.38, trimming to -2.8% since this pulse flagged it Tuesday, as AI chip stocks fall again on the OpenAI revenue report
- Delta Air Lines cuts 2026 guidance on rising fuel costs after its first earnings miss in two years
- Stock-market margin debt hits record levels as retail investors pile on leverage
Sector and commodities
- Energy's rally cools to a 0.41% daily gain as Trump rules out an Iran strike before midterms
- SpaceX's purchase of Grain Management's spectrum portfolio pressures telecom carrier stocks
- Constellation Energy rebounds to $292.07, trimming its slide since being flagged Tuesday to -2.8%
Crypto
- No material crypto headlines today; bitcoin and major tokens untouched by the equity swings
Fixed income
- Treasury yields pull back from 24-year highs as traders digest Fed comments and await auctions
- Treasury Secretary Bessent hires Judy Shelton, Trump's controversial former Fed pick, as an adviser
Dow Jones (DJI)+0.3%
The Dow's 0.33% gain today leaves it still about 2% below its September 14 peak of 52421.20.
Nasdaq Composite (IXIC)+0.3%
The Nasdaq's rebound to 27268.85 partly reverses Thursday's AI-selloff dip from its October 6 record.
S&P 500 (GSPC)+0.2%
The S&P 500 ticks up to 7783.85, closing back in on its October 6 record of 7818.93.