Equities desk · Morning edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Prices in this edition were taken live, not from stored closes. They were read at the Morning edition slot on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Anything named as a cause may come from a headline the desk was given.
The open carries over yesterday's split rather than resolving it. The sits almost exactly where it closed, Technology is still the sector under pressure, and the 's move has cooled to 0.85% from Monday's sharper 2.56% spike, so the surface stress keeps easing even as the names beneath it, and ASML among them, keep sliding into their own earnings dates. Breadth stayed thin into this morning, with only 38% of tracked indices above their 50-day average: a flat index sitting over a shakier floor, same shape as before, just carried forward.
UnitedHealth leads outright, up 3.18% after beating Q3 estimates and raising its 2026 profit guidance, the clearest sign yet that it has gotten elevated medical costs under control. Meta gives back yesterday's entire AI-model rally, slipping into a loss a day after its new Muse Wonder subscription model drove a 3.38% gain, proof a single product reveal does not rewrite a quarter. ASML falls 2.36% two days ahead of its own Q3 report, in company with 's own retreat, as the chip-stock selloff that hit Asia overnight keeps finding names to drag lower. None of that reads as broad-based: it is three separate stories wearing one tape.
Meta's reversal is one session old and the data gives no fresh reason for it beyond the fact that yesterday's rally has simply run its course. A flip from a 3.38% gain to a loss is not evidence the Muse Wonder story has soured, just that one day of enthusiasm wore off. General Motors reaffirming its 2028 self-driving timeline is a restated plan, not new progress, and the stock's gain today tracks with Financials broadly rather than with any autonomous-vehicle story. ASML's earnings on Wednesday, and 's still two weeks out on October 27, are the two real tests still ahead of anything in today's tape.
UnitedHealth jumps to 390.55 after beating Q3 estimates and raising 2026 profit guidance.
ASML falls to 1708.99, extending its slide into Wednesday's Q3 report in Amsterdam.
Apple climbs to 346.78, continuing its rebound even as broader Technology sector falls again.
38%
3 of 8 tracked indices above their 50-day average
Counted over ^GSPC, ^IXIC, ^DJI, ^RUT, ^FTSE, ^N225, ^GDAXI, 000001.SS. This is a reading across whole market indices, not a count of the companies inside any one of them.
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Moved 9.1%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 5.0%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 4.8%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 4.5%, 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
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Moved 3.4%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 3.2%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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