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Big Tech mostly beat this week, and the market sold it anyway. Meta posted 26% revenue growth and still dropped nearly 7% on fresh anxiety over its AI spending, Lam Research tumbled on a supply-chain warning, and CoreWeave took another analyst downgrade less than two weeks after its own debt scare rattled the sector. The financing question that hit AI infrastructure stocks in mid-October has now spread to the hyperscalers writing the cheques.
📊 Market recap
The week opened in a holding pattern. With last week's CoreWeave and Nebius debt scare still fresh and a run of mega-cap earnings due, Monday through Wednesday traded without a clear direction, the kind of quiet that usually means the market is waiting for a specific date rather than running out of reasons to move. That date arrived on Thursday.
Thursday was the week's real session. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.60% to 26,008.86, its worst single day since June, while the S&P 500 dropped 1.21% to 7,663.43. The Dow Jones barely moved, up 0.02% to 52,873.28, extending its pattern from recent weeks of grinding higher while tech absorbs the selling. Meta Platforms fell nearly 7% despite reporting revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% year on year, after free cash flow came in negative and the company narrowed its 2026 capex guidance to $135 billion to $145 billion, effectively raising the floor. Lam Research dropped close to 12% on a supply-chain constraint warning that dragged the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down more than 6% and pulled Nvidia and Micron lower in sympathy, per Fool.com's live coverage. CoreWeave, already down sharply from its mid-October debt scare, took a fresh analyst downgrade the same day. Tesla slipped around 3% on margin concerns following its own Q3 results. Not every report was punished: Pool Corp jumped over 14% on an earnings beat and reaffirmed guidance, Spotify rose roughly 9 to 11% on stronger margins and Q4 revenue guidance, Lockheed Martin gained about 7% on a beat-and-raise quarter, and Procter & Gamble added 5.6% on an EPS and revenue beat. Bloom Energy fell around 7% after hours on its own Q3 print.
The selloff spilled into Friday's Asia session, with Japan's Nikkei down about 1.7% and South Korea's Kospi off 2.4 to 3.3% at the open, per regional market reports, as the same AI-financing worry that hit Wall Street on Thursday worked its way through chip-exposed Asian markets.
😶🌫️ Sentiment watch
A precise, verified Fear and Greed reading for this week was not available before this went to print. The gauge was already sitting in "fear" territory as of an early-October snapshot, and Thursday's broad, cross-sector selloff gives no reason to think sentiment has recovered since. The VIX spiked to an intraday high of 22.31 last Friday, its highest level since June, and Thursday's session, the Nasdaq's worst day in four months, extended rather than reversed that elevated-volatility regime.
The ten-year Treasury yield told an unusual story alongside the selloff: rather than rising on Brent crude's jump to a multi-month high, it fell to around 4.95% to 5.0%, one report calling it the sharpest one-day drop since March 2023, as money rotated into bonds. That is a growth-scare signature, not an inflation-scare one, which matters for how this week should be read against the Fed meeting still to come.
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