Equities desk · Morning edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026
Prices in this edition were taken live, not from stored closes. They were read at the Morning edition slot on Thursday, October 22, 2026. Anything named as a cause may come from a headline the desk was given.
The megacap carry that held up the tape yesterday cracked the moment earnings actually arrived. Meta's quarter forced the issue, and the pain stayed concentrated: the equal-weight RSP slipped just 0.20% while the cap-weighted fell 0.82%, and the actually rose 0.27%. That is the opposite of a broad risk-off day, it is a handful of giant names pulling the average down while most of the market held its ground. Call it proof the carry needed earnings to go well, and for Meta at least, they didn't buy the stock a reprieve.
Procter & Gamble gapped up 5.38% on an earnings beat, sales lifted by laundry and home care, CNBC reported. Comcast added too, beating on media revenue even as connectivity kept shrinking, with its media spinoff still underway, also per CNBC. Exxon rose on a broader energy bid, after Iran's IRGC Navy said mines struck tankers near the Strait of Hormuz and reports said Washington and Israel are weighing renewed strikes on Iran. None of that offset Meta: a 26% revenue jump and a healthy Muse user count were swamped once the company unveiled a new AI stock class to fund its buildout, and the stock fell 6.24%.
fell 1.74% and fell 2.06% with nothing in the headlines here to explain either move beyond a general flight from Technology; Jensen Huang's comment that neocloud demand is capital constrained could be read as a warning as easily as a plug. kept falling too, into a report due in five days, still with no stated cause. The 's jump to 18.10 reflects a Hormuz tanker scare that may not last: the same session brought word that Russia's Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow is ready to resume trilateral Ukraine talks after US envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin in St. Petersburg, a development that cuts against the oil story.
Meta slides to 654 after earnings, as a 26% revenue beat is overshadowed by new AI stock-class dilution fears.
Procter & Gamble gaps to 165.29 after beating forecasts, its sharpest one-day rise in a month.
Amazon slips to 256.96 with no earnings out yet, pulling back from last week's highs near 262.
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Moved 9.5%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 7.5%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 5.3%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 4.7%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 4.0%, at or above the 3% floor for this strip
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Moved 3.6%, 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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