AI Stocks Midday
📊 AI Stocks Midday Pulse — Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Indices: SPX ~7,700 (-1.1%) · NDX ~29,990 (-1.9%) · DJI ~51,460 (-0.3%)
Tone: risk-off — hot CPI, chips leading the slide
Movers so far:
• IONQ -9.3% — $2B equity offering priced at $40 plus a $1.3B all-stock Elisity deal; dilution math won
• ORCL -7.9% — Project Jupiter data center pushed to Feb 2027 on permitting delays; stock now -32% YTD
• BBAI -7.7% — high-beta small-cap AI getting flushed with the group despite $225M in new gov contracts
• SMCI -6.3% / AMD -6.1% / ARM -6.1% — semis in their seventh straight down day; AMD's Helios news couldn't offset it
• AAPL +1.1% — the lone mega-cap green, fresh all-time high on the HomeView smart home launch
Watchlist:
• MU $920.93 (-3.38%) ⚠️
• NVDA $221.46 (-3.09%) ⚠️
• MSFT $536.07 (-1.36%)
• GOOGL $350.56 (-0.91%)
• META $736.32 (-3.43%) ⚠️
• AMZN $254.50 (-1.58%)
• AAPL $345.16 (+1.14%)
• AMD $568.38 (-6.14%) ⚠️
• TSLA $365.04 (-2.72%)
• PLTR $203.38 (-2.54%)
• ARM $239.82 (-6.10%) ⚠️
• SMCI $36.60 (-6.31%) ⚠️
• ORCL $131.90 (-7.89%) ⚠️
• SOUN $4.65 (-4.81%) ⚠️
• IONQ $31.49 (-9.33%) ⚠️
• BBAI $2.21 (-7.73%) ⚠️
• AVGO $346.60 (-3.00%)
• CRM $235.19 (-1.18%)
• ADBE $237.67 (+0.59%)
• IBM $229.75 (-0.45%)
• SNOW $341.63 (-4.51%) ⚠️
• MDB $365.27 (-2.09%)
• NET $331.21 (-4.74%) ⚠️
• CRWD $251.83 (-3.59%) ⚠️
• TSM $430.63 (-3.26%) ⚠️
• ASML $1,695.56 (-1.29%)
News:
• September CPI ran hot — 3.7% headline vs 3.6% expected, core at 2.6% — reviving October rate-hike chatter. 10-year yield up 6bp to 5.27%, crude near $106.
• ASML beat on profit with record €11.7B sales and raised FY guidance to €44–45B, but a hair-thin revenue miss turned it into a sector-wide excuse to sell. TSMC reports tomorrow.
• Broadcom's Hock Tan called a lot of AI investors "casino gamblers" and flagged capital, not chips, as the real bottleneck — AVGO -3%.
• Anthropic holds its pre-IPO investor day in San Francisco today, with reports of a $1.8–2T target and a roadshow around November 9. OpenAI is reportedly closing a $30B+ private round near $1.4T, with its listing pushed to 2027. Neither trades publicly yet.
• Bank of America -9% after Q3 profit fell 17% on a $1.2B regulatory penalty.