Cash indexes closed under pressure — Nasdaq -2.14% to 26,140, S&P 500 -1.09% to 7,659, Russell 2000 -1.66% — while the Dow held to just a -0.34% loss. Technology (-3.02%) and Comm. Svcs (-1.89%) led the decline as Energy (+2.52%), Utilities (+1.34%) and Staples (+1.08%) caught the bid, with the 10-year at 5.10% doing the damage to long-duration growth. VIX cooled 6.9% to 18.61 and futures point to a dip-buying open: S&P +0.43%, Nasdaq +1.23%, Russell +0.41%, with Dow futures -0.26% the lone red. The single-name tape was speculative — KNDI +813.9% and CTSO +34.3% topped gainers while RPGL (-48.3%) and FGL (-30.9%) led decliners. Macro matches the fragile headline backdrop: French debt unrest hit Paris stocks, bonds and the euro, and consumer sentiment sits at a weak 51.7.
Change on the day for the major indices. VIX sits in the metric strip above — it reads inversely, so it is kept out of this scale.
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QuantLogix breadth reads 40.2% bullish across 4,063 names, +2.6 pts and broadening — stock-level participation improved even as the Nasdaq slid 2.1%, a divergence indicating selling stayed concentrated rather than spreading. The quality caveat: only 4 strong buys against 593 names in the sell/strong-sell buckets, so conviction at the top of the distribution is thin.
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Strong Buy standouts: DKS · HBNB · BH.A · CVKD
Strong Sell standouts: BBVA · GH · CNH · HUT · VICR · S · COMP · XMTR · PI · DFTX · NOVT · BETA
See full signals →| Ticker | Next Report | In | Last EPS YoY | Last Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSLA | 2026-10-22 | 2d | -3.0% | +25.5% |
| GOOGL | 2026-10-22 | 3d | +294.4% | +24.2% |
| MSFT | 2026-10-28 | 8d | +0.0% | +17.7% |
| META | 2026-10-29 | 9d | -13.4% | +28.0% |
| AMZN | 2026-10-30 | 10d | +242.3% | +19.6% |
| AAPL | 2026-10-30 | 11d | +28.7% | +16.4% |
Bar length = days until the report · green/red = last EPS YoY direction · click through to the live page.
Year-over-year movement
The primary calendar is light today — two IPOs at $4-5 (MDAT) and $7 (BIAI) — so the real catalysts are earnings: TSLA and GOOGL report Oct 22, then MSFT (Oct 28), META (Oct 29) and AMZN/AAPL (Oct 30).
| Ticker | Company | Listing Date | In | Offer Range | Exchange |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDAT | Web3Labs Global Inc. | 2026-10-19 | listed | $4–$5 | XNAS |
| BIAI | Bitari Inc | 2026-10-19 | listed | $7–$7 | XNAS |
| YHTE | Primagrove Ltd | 2026-10-26 | 7d | $4–$6 | XNAS |
| CGL | CGL Logistics Holdings Ltd | TBA | — | $4–$4 | XASE |
| FGO | FG Holdings Limited | TBA | — | $4–$4 | XNAS |
Full pipeline + S-1 tracker on IPO Radar · pre-IPO valuations and secondaries on Private Companies.
The private tape stays AI-heavy: TypeSafe AI's $870M Series A at a $7.5B valuation (Andreessen Horowitz leading) headlines six deals this month, and a16z is the most active lead by far at 13 deals / $2.2B. Benchmark's $60M seed in Hone at $285M is the notable early-stage print.
| Date | Company | Event | Amount | Lead Investor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | Ambi · AI | Pre-Series A $26M led by Luminous Ventures | $26M | Luminous Ventures |
| 2026-10-09 | Ultra · Robotics | Series A $50M led by Framework Ventures | $50M | Framework Ventures |
| 2026-10-09 | TypeSafe AI · AI | Series A $870M led by Andreessen Horowitz | $870M | Andreessen Horowitz |
| 2026-10-09 | Hone · AI | Seed $60M led by Benchmark | $60M | Benchmark |
| 2026-10-09 | Meticulous · Enterprise Software | Series A $15M led by Chemistry | $15M | Chemistry |
| 2026-10-09 | Kapta Space · Space | Series A $24M led by Washington Harbour Partners | $24M | Washington Harbour Partners |
| 2026-10-09 | Klarent · Enterprise Software | Seed $8M led by Mosaic Ventures | $8M | Mosaic Ventures |
| 2026-10-08 | Manus AI · AI | Growth $500M led by Boyu Capital / IDG Capital | $500M | Boyu Capital / IDG Capital |
Track 2,699 pre-IPO names on Private Companies · browse 280+ investor profiles · live deal tape on Deal Signals.
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Where the money went — sector split
Most active lead investors (last 45 days)
Educational framework discussion of market conditions — not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
When the spread between the day's best and worst sectors runs wide — Energy +2.52% versus Technology -3.02%, a 5.5-point gap — the index print hides a rotation, not a uniform selloff. Pairing dispersion with breadth tells you which story you're in: a falling index with rising breadth (+2.6 pts today) means capital is moving between sleeves of the market, not leaving it. Narrowing breadth with a flat index is the opposite, and historically the more fragile setup. Watch the gap, not just the level, when the tape looks binary.