The 4.4% Friday loss is not on the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index tape. Nasdaq’s page for 16 October 2026 shows a last of 11,137.29, down 443.93 points, or 3.83%. That was an eighth straight lower close. Ayushman Ojha’s Investing.com note, on Yahoo Finance the next morning, calls it the longest such streak since October 2008 and
Updated 17 October 2026. Spot gold ended Friday 16 October near $4,166 an ounce (Trading Economics), little changed on the day, while December COMEX futures closed around $4,186.70 (Investing.com). Brent crude settled at $109.86, its highest since May, and the US 10-year yield rose to about 5.11 percent. Verdict: $110 oil is an inflation risk
The obvious reading is that Anthropic cut its own IPO ask from about $2 trillion to about $1.5 trillion. It did not. Reuters reported on 15 October 2026 that some current and prospective investors, after Wednesday’s investor day in San Francisco, discussed around $1.5 trillion, down from the roughly $2 trillion they had expected for
SanDisk’s slide is not a NAND price break. The shares closed Friday, 16 October 2026, at $1,299.30, down $95.53, or 6.85 percent, from Thursday’s $1,394.83. Seven straight lower closes, starting 8 October, leave the stock $393.12, or 23.23 percent, under the 7 October close of $1,692.42. The last 90 daily log-returns, carried across the 52
The comfortable reading is that BigBear.ai simply failed to hold a contract rally. That reading is wrong. The shares closed at $2.16 on Friday 16 October 2026, down 7.30 percent from Thursday’s $2.33, and the year-end path from the last 90 sessions is a bull of $2.22, a base of $1.52 and a bear of
The Friday tape did not do what the morning headlines said it did. Tesla did not finish higher on the Roadster, and Netflix did not close down a round 3 percent. Nasdaq’s file for 16 October 2026 puts Tesla at $354.72, down $7.72, or 2.13 percent, from Thursday’s $362.44, and Netflix at $70.53, down $2.08,
Updated 17 October 2026. Brent crude settled at $109.86 a barrel on Friday 16 October, up $3.94 or 3.7 percent on the day and 4.9 percent on the week. It was Brent’s highest settlement since 19 May, and the contract briefly touched $110 for the first time since May (Reuters via TokenPost and The Detroit
AUDJPY currency pair can be expected to rise further toward the next resistance level 111.10 (which stopped the previous correction 4 at the start of this week). AUDJPY reversed from multi-month support level 109.00 Likely to rise to resistance level 111.10 AUDJPY currency pair recently reversed up from the support zone between the multi-month support
Fed Chair Warsh’s non-committal stance weakened the US Dollar, boosted foreign currencies, and left inflation and rate expectations in focus. Fed Chair Warsh Adopts a Non-Committal Stance and Shifts Away From Forward Guidance Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh signaled a notable shift in communication strategy during his remarks in Bangkok, stating explicitly that he does
Non-core inflation beating the consensus has increased the probability of a hike this month. 14 September’s inflation data from the USA delivered an upward surprise on the whole, increasing the probability of the Federal Reserve (Fed) hiking rates in October. The US dollar appreciated sharply in the aftermath before retreating somewhat in most of its