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Only 7 of 78 S&P 500 tech stocks rose on 16 October. The other 422 stocks were nearly flat.
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The S&P 500 lost $794 billion on 16 October and technology accounted for $750 billion of it. Outside tech, the index slipped 0.1%. Wednesday looked the same.
sectorstechnologysp500market-breadthNvidia lost $273 billion in two days. All 60 S&P 500 healthcare stocks gained $281 billion.
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Over 14-15 October, Nvidia's loss in market value nearly cancelled the whole healthcare sector's gain, and technology as a whole lost more than three times what healthcare added.
sectorshealthcaretechnologynvidiasp500Real estate led the S&P 500 on 9 October. Three tower stocks did 62% of it.
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Real estate rose 1.95% on 9 October, the S&P 500's best sector. American Tower, Crown Castle and SBA supplied 62% of that gain on the day SpaceX bought spectrum for Starlink Mobile.
sectorssp500telecomAll 31 S&P 500 utilities rose on the day of Google's Constellation deal. Constellation was 30% of it.
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Utilities gained 3.06% on 6 October, their best day since at least June 2025. Constellation's 12% jump on its Google deal supplied $11.6 billion of the sector's $39 billion.
sectorsutilitiessp500337 S&P 500 stocks rose on Thursday. The index still fell 0.45%.
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Two out of three S&P 500 stocks closed higher on 8 October and the average one gained 0.67%, but five stocks lost $422 billion and pulled the index down 0.45%.
sp500breadthsectorstechnologyenergyMicrosoft added $135 billion on its Copilot relaunch, 41% of the S&P 500's gain. The rest of software fell.
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Microsoft rose 3.66% on 25 September, the day it released a redesigned Copilot, adding $135.4 billion, about 41% of the S&P 500's $333.5 billion gain. It was the stock's highest close of 2026. Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow and six other software names lost $24.1 billion, and Meta gave back $66.1 billion.
sp500sectorstechnologyaimicrosoftmetaNvidia added $91.5 billion on the day of its record buyback. The S&P 500's other chipmakers lost $154 billion.
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Nvidia rose 1.68% on 28 September after adding $150 billion to its buyback, gaining $91.5 billion in market value. The S&P 500's 18 other chip stocks lost $154.3 billion, Qualcomm had its worst day since June, and Meta's $91.8 billion drop cancelled Nvidia's gain almost exactly.
sectorstechnologysemiconductorsnvidiametasp500Technology added $586 billion to the S&P 500 today. Five chipmakers accounted for $320 billion of it.
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The S&P 500 rose 1.14% on 17 September, but Technology did nearly all of it: the sector added $586.2 billion, with Nvidia, Micron, AMD, Intel and Broadcom responsible for $320.3 billion of that as chip stocks extended a rebound from Wednesday's Fed-driven selloff.
sectorstechnologysemiconductorssp500federal-reserveAll 31 S&P 500 utilities fell the day the 10-year Treasury yield hit 5%
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Every one of the S&P 500's 31 utilities closed lower on 18 September, and so did 26 of 30 consumer-staples stocks and 27 of 30 real-estate names, as the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5% following Fed governor Kevin Warsh's hawkish remarks. A semiconductor rally inside Technology was the only thing that kept the index's headline number positive.
sectorsratesfederal-reserveutilitiessp500Meta's 11% jump added $194 billion to the S&P 500. Four stocks supplied 45% of the day's gain.
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On 21 September the S&P 500 gained about $1.06 trillion in market value, and Meta, Nvidia, AMD and Intel supplied 45% of it from 12% of the index's weight. Here is the whole map, including the Energy stocks that lost $60 billion.
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