News desk · Evening edition · Monday, October 26, 2026
Equities have stayed near record territory, keeping the broader bull regime intact, even as risk appetite remains fragile beneath the surface. The S&P 500 rose 0.70% and the VIX fell 5.04% to 18.47, with Technology up 1.72% and Communication Services down 1.57%. Microsoft's buyout offer and Anthropic's S-1 filing arrived after the open, and the Fed is expected to hold rates this week.
On October 26, Communication Services' move of -1.57% was lower than 93% of its 259 earlier daily moves, the most unusual of the 12 instruments shown. Of those, 2 sit in the outer tenth of their own histories.
Drawn from the numbers stored with this edition; the same picture is on its share card.
From September 14 to October 23, VIX rose 15.32% while S&P 500 rose 0.05%, a gap of 15.27 percentage points.
The picture on the morning edition's share card, drawn from the numbers stored with that edition, written Oct 26, 2026, 9:37 AM EDT. The evening edition above replaced it as this day's latest edition.
- offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as it balances AI spending against infrastructure build-out
- Anthropic files its S-1, and prediction markets price an IPO this year as near certain
- FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General over deceptive register pricing
- Technology gains 1.72% and Industrials 1.42%, while Communication Services falls 1.57% on the day
- Energy turns higher, up 0.45% on the day, after an earlier slide as oil fell over 2%
- ex-AI index is outperforming the traditional this year, CNBC reports
- No notable crypto headlines today
- Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at its October meeting this week
The DAX rose 0.9% to 25,410.84, recovering part of the prior two sessions' slide within its October range.
Shanghai gained 0.89% in the latest session but remains well below its late-September highs near 3,950.
The Nasdaq rose 0.82% to 26,169, but it remains well below its early-October peak above 27,500.