The AI basket has returned to the “scene of the crime” (the most recent breakout earlier this year). The glass-half-full technical read is that the decline from the June high of 473 to 310 looks like a 3-wave ABC pattern, which would be considered corrective instead of impulsive. The AI vs ex-AI pair is down 34% from its high, while the 10-year yield has fallen 53 bps. Anti-correlation at work.
Here’s a look at the drawdowns in the AI space. The GS AI basket is down 30% from its high, but there are plenty of names which are down much more than that. The ex-AI half of the market has been the relative winner during this rotation, but there’s a lot more cap on the AI side and that affects the overall index. When 10 stocks are 40% of the market, those 10 stocks will drive much of the beta.
ANTHROPIC JUST LAUNCHED CLAUDE WHITEBOARDS, CLAUDE SHEETS, AND CLAUDE DATA
- Whiteboards: talk through a plan, and Claude lays it out on a board your team can edit
- Sheets: ask for a tracker or a budget, and you get a working spreadsheet your team can keep building
- Data: dashboards, plus written "data stories" and narrated videos made from your metrics
You can also now open full versions of Adobe $ADBE, Atlassian $TEAM, and Box $BOX inside Claude, and work in them alongside your conversation.
BREAKING: US M2 money supply jumped +$113 billion in August, to a record $23.41 trillion.
YoY, M2 grew +5.7%, its largest YoY increase since May 2022.
This also marks the 3rd consecutive month of accelerating growth.
So far in 2026, M2 has risen by an average of +$136 billion per month.
This is 89% above the average monthly growth of +$72 billion recorded throughout 2025.
US money creation is gaining momentum.
$NVDA - NVIDIA BOARD LAUNCHES ESPIONAGE PROBE INVOLVING CEO JENSEN HUANG
Nvidia IS launching an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese intelligence operation, Bloomberg reports.
Huang admitted to an extramarital affair and apologized to employees. US authorities reportedly suspect a former Megaspeed executive of links to Chinese intelligence.
Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe company secrets or national security were compromised. Huang will remain CEO and cooperate fully with the investigation.
What just happened?
The Nasdaq 100 just posted its largest daily drop since the 2020 Pandemic, with the S&P 500 erasing -$3 trillion today.
Just 24 hours ago, the Dow surged +1,600 points after the Democrats "swept" the Midterms.
So, what changed? Let us explain.
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I don’t know if this is consensus or not yet but midterms aren’t that big of a deal and won’t matter that much for the stock market outside of basically this week.
BREAKING: The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges over +1,100 points as markets open for the first time since the Democrats "swept" the Midterm elections.
US stocks just added over +$1 trillion in market cap at the open.