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Short answer: Alphabet and Microsoft both roughly doubled quarterly capital spending, yet Alphabet shares fell about 12% on October 29, 2026 while Microsoft ended the week down 0.5%, per CNBC. The split is cash. Alphabet’s Q3 2026 release shows $51.4 billion of capex against $42.3 billion of operating cash flow, so free cash flow was…

Short answer: On October 23, 2026, AT&T and T-Mobile each fell more than 6% on a report that SpaceX wants cell sites for a fourth wireless carrier, per the Associated Press. A 6% fall needs a 6.38% gain to get back to even, which is about 9 months of a steady 8% year. The headline…

Short answer: Netflix reported third-quarter 2026 earnings per share of $0.87 on October 20, 2026, ahead of the $0.82 consensus, and the stock still slid about 5.8% in extended trading. Revenue landed exactly on estimates at $12.87 billion. The sting came from guidance: a 26% operating margin for Q4 and a trimmed 2026 ad forecast….

Short answer: Tesla and Meta both report after the close on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Tesla’s EPS estimates run from $0.30 to $0.70, so a beat depends on which number you use. Meta is judged mostly on AI spending. Both land in the Fed blackout, a week before the October 27-28 meeting. The Nasdaq lost…

Short answer: On Friday, October 16, 2026, the VIX jumped 21.5% to 19.99 while the S&P 500 fell 1.09%. In CoinDesk’s analysis of data since January 1990, the VIX fell the next Monday in 25 of 32 earlier Friday jumps of 20% or more. The typical Monday drop was 4.5%. Seven times it kept climbing,…

Short answer: On October 16, 2026 the 10-year Treasury yielded 5.09%, according to Treasury’s daily par yield curve. The S&P 500’s forward earnings yield, one divided by the 20.59 forward price-to-earnings ratio on State Street’s SPY page for October 15, is 4.86%. That is 0.23 percentage points below the bond. Stocks still have growth the…

Short answer: The Nasdaq composite fell 4.5% between the October 9 and October 16, 2026 closes. A 3x leveraged ETF that reset perfectly every day would have lost about 13.1% over the same five sessions, not 13.4%. That gap is small because the week trended one way. The real damage is what comes next. The…

Short answer: September inflation came in at 3.7%, and the odds of a Fed hike on October 28 jumped to about 50% before settling near a third. If the Fed does add 25 basis points, $10,000 in a 3-month T-bill loses nothing and simply rolls into a higher rate. The same $10,000 in a 2-year…

TL;DR — SK hynix reported its most profitable quarter ever for Q2 2026 and the stock still closed down about 9.6%. Revenue of 79.32 trillion won and operating profit of 60.54 trillion won both landed under consensus, which sat near 84 trillion and 64 trillion. The shortfall was not weak demand. Quick answer: SK hynix…

TL;DR — Apple and Amazon reported record June-quarter results on the same night, July 30, 2026, and the market punished one and rewarded the other. Apple’s stock slid roughly 8% on weak forward guidance tied to memory and chip supply constraints. Quick answer: Apple and Amazon reported record June-quarter results on the same night, July…