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Alphabet's 2.3% slide cost Communication Services more than Charter's 8% crash
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Charter and Comcast grabbed the September 9 selloff headlines, down 8.13% and 6.61%. But S&P 500 data shows Alphabet, down just 2.28%, erased $94.3 billion — about 80% of the sector's $118.4 billion loss and 7.5x what Charter, Comcast and T-Mobile lost combined.
sectorscommunication-servicesalphabetchartercomcastsp500Amgen's worst day in a year was only 15% of healthcare's $162 billion loss
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Healthcare was the S&P 500's worst sector on September 8, down 2.54% cap-weighted after a failed Novartis cholesterol trial. Amgen fell 10.1% and Stryker fell 8.8% - their worst days in at least a year - but together the two covered barely a fifth of the sector's $162 billion drop.
healthcareamgenstrykernovartissp500sectorsTesla and Netflix did nearly 80% of Consumer Discretionary's damage today
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Consumer Discretionary was the S&P 500's worst sector on September 4, down 1.39% cap-weighted. Tesla and Netflix alone accounted for $106 billion of the sector's $135 billion market-cap loss; strip them out and the sector was flat.
sectorsconsumer-discretionaryteslanetflixsp500Nvidia alone drove nearly half of today's S&P 500 gain
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The S&P 500 rose 0.54% on September 2, but $NVDA's 3.2% move contributed almost half of that by itself. Strip it out and the index gained just 0.32%. This is the sixth time in a month a single stock has carried this much of the tape.
sp500sectorsainvidiaPalo Alto Networks fell for a third straight day, and it took the rest of cybersecurity software with it
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$PANW is down 14% over two sessions since its earnings report, including a 9.28% drop today. $CRWD, $DDOG and $FTNT fell alongside it with no earnings of their own — the same basket that rallied together a week earlier.
sectorssp500cybersecurityearningstechnologyThe S&P 500's most richly valued stocks fell hardest as Treasury yields hit a 19-month high
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The S&P 500 fell 0.72% on September 1 as the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.79%, its highest since January 2025. The index's 50 priciest stocks by price-to-sales averaged -2.0%; its 50 cheapest averaged +0.23%.
valuationratessp500sectorsEdison International and PG&E lost $13.6 billion today after California's wildfire bill left them exposed
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EIX fell 23.1% and PCG fell 20.1% on 31 August after California's SB 492 wildfire bill left out the liability cap utilities were pushing for. Strip those two, plus Sempra, out of the utilities sector and the other 28 members were essentially flat.
utilitieswildfirecaliforniasectorssp500Energy stocks had their best day in six weeks as the U.S. and Iran traded strikes near the Strait of Hormuz
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The S&P 500's Energy sector rose 2.10% cap-weighted on 31 August, its largest single-day move in our last 31 sessions, while the broader index fell 0.28%. Brent crude topped $90 after the U.S. struck Iranian sites near the Strait of Hormuz.
energyoilsectorssp500Nvidia doubled its revenue. Two days later the whole chip complex fell.
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The S&P 500 closed down 0.16% on Friday. Take Nvidia out and it closed up 0.20%. Every one of thirteen AI-hardware names fell that day, and all six of the largest non-AI companies rose.
aisemiconductorsnvidiasectorssp500The utilities were already falling before Warsh opened his mouth
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Friday's story was that a hawkish Jackson Hole speech hit rate-sensitive stocks. But 30 of 31 S&P utilities fell on Thursday, the day before the speech, on a day the index rose 0.63%.
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