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Weekly market recap

Weekly market recap: Oct 5–9, 2026

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The Week in Review

Wall Street notched a fourth straight winning week for the Nasdaq, even though the path there was anything but smooth. For the week, the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq finished up a respective 1.2%, 0.9%, and 0.6%, marking the Nasdaq's fourth consecutive weekly gain. (finance.yahoo.com) The week opened with a bang: the Nasdaq Composite hit an intraday high above 27,544 and posted a record close of 27,477.31 on Monday (cnbc.com), with the index going on to set an all-time closing and intraday high on Tuesday, October 6 (en.wikipedia.org). Momentum reversed sharply on Thursday when a report about OpenAI's revenue sparked a tech-led selloff, before stocks rebounded Friday to close out the week near record territory. Stocks rose to close out a record-setting week, with the S&P 500 climbing 0.6% Friday and coming close to topping its all-time high set three days earlier. (washingtonpost.com)

Macro and the Fed

Rate policy was front and center all week. The Federal Reserve released minutes from its September 15–16 policy meeting on October 7, revealing unanimous support for its quarter-point rate hike (raisin.com), which lifted the federal funds target range to 3.75%–4.00%, the first hike since 2023 (babypips.com). The minutes showed a split outlook: most participants assessed that another rate increase would likely be appropriate by year end (thehill.com), even as Fed leaders have since said they can wait, with traders pricing just a 20% to 25% chance of an October hike (babypips.com). Bond markets stayed tense throughout the week — a bond-market rout pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to its highest level since April 2002, at 5.3645%, amid inflation concerns (investrade.com). Consumer attitudes also soured: the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment fell to 46.3 in October, as year-ahead inflation expectations rose to 4.7% (tradingkey.com).

Oil, Commodities, and Geopolitics

Energy markets were volatile on a combination of storm and war-risk headlines. Oil spiked midweek as Brent crude futures reclaimed the $104-per-barrel level on Thursday, posting their highest settlement since September 29, as renewed Middle East risk combined with Hurricane Isaias bearing down on the Gulf Coast (finance.biggo.com). WTI jumped roughly $4 per barrel Thursday and Brent gained nearly $5 after explosions were reported in Riyadh (oilprice.com), while the storm itself forced oil companies to shut in more than 70% of crude production in U.S. Gulf waters (gvwire.com). Prices eased a bit by Friday after President Trump ruled out attacking Iran before next month's midterm elections (thenationalnews.com), though crude still finished the week higher as Brent settled near $104.72 and WTI near $91.85. Gold also caught a bid, with the metal jumping 1.55% to 4,221.3 (stockmarketwatch.com), lifting mining shares.

Notable Movers

  • Nvidia: Nvidia stock closed at a record $230.48 on Tuesday, giving the company a $5.77 trillion market capitalization, before shares tumbled amid market pressure. (finance.yahoo.com)
  • AI/chip names (Oracle, AMD, CoreWeave, Micron): Nvidia shares fell 3%, Oracle shares fell nearly 6% and CoreWeave shares slipped nearly 8% on Thursday (cnbc.com) after a report that OpenAI told investors it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, lower than the $68 billion figure widely reported late last month. (cnbc.com)
  • SpaceX: shares jumped after the company rose in premarket trading following news of a major wireless spectrum acquisition and a bullish Wall Street analyst initiation (thestreet.com) from Barclays.
  • Telecoms (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile): the SpaceX spectrum deal hit traditional carriers hard, with AT&T dropping 9.81%, Verizon falling 8.75%, and T-Mobile sinking 13.27% (tipranks.com) on competitive worries.
  • Humana: Humana posted an 11.7% pop after receiving positive Medicare Advantage quality ratings (stockmarketwatch.com), lifting healthcare stocks broadly.
  • Delta Air Lines: kicked off earnings season on a sour note as the carrier reported disappointing Q3 earnings, clearing the way for bank earnings next week. (thestreet.com)

Week Ahead

The coming week is a heavy one for data and earnings. Monday is a bond-market holiday for Columbus Day, with no major U.S. data scheduled (livetradingnews.com), but things pick up fast. Tuesday, bank earnings open before the bell with JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup reporting, alongside Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth (livetradingnews.com), with Bank of America and Morgan Stanley following Wednesday. The main macro event is September CPI on Wednesday at 8:30 ET, with consensus looking for headline inflation of 3.6% year-over-year from 3.4%, and 0.6% on the month, with core seen at 2.5% (livetradingnews.com). PPI and retail sales are due Thursday (sensei.news), the same day TSMC reports Q3 results and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh speaks in Bangkok (sensei.news) at the IMF and World Bank meetings. Friday brings industrial production data, rounding out a week that will test whether the market's AI-fueled rally can withstand fresh inflation and bank-earnings scrutiny.

This recap is generated automatically with AI from public news sources and is for informational purposes only. It is not investment advice. Figures may contain errors, so check the linked sources.