The earnings rally in Alcoa did not survive the official close. Alcoa stock finished Friday, 16 October 2026, at $41.45, up $1.03, or 2.55 percent, from Thursday’s $40.42, with a year-end bull of $41.80 and a bear of $24.09. The same Nasdaq bar has a high of $44.348, 9.72 percent above Thursday, and a low
A 10% correction in the Nasdaq 100 has not printed. Friday’s official close was 29,187.55, which is 6.52% under the 6 October closing high of 31,224.69, and the session low of 29,073.29 was still 6.89% under that high. A correction means 10% from the peak. Ten percent under 31,224.69 is 28,102.22, another 1,085.33 points, or
The 6.35 percent figure was not this week’s tape. Netflix closed Friday, 16 October 2026, at $70.53, down $2.08, or 2.86 percent, from Thursday’s $72.61. From the prior Friday, 9 October, at $70.30, the stock rose $0.23, or 0.33 percent. The same 6.35 percent is the drop from the 17 September close of $75.31. On
The equal-weight S&P 500 did not make a record on Friday. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, ticker RSP, closed at $214.09 on 16 October 2026, down $0.91, or 0.42 percent, from Thursday’s $215.00. That print is $8.68, or 3.90 percent, under the highest close in the Nasdaq file saved here, $222.77 on 14
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,