Nasdaq-100 falls 1.4% as Alphabet falls 13%
Closes for Thursday 29 October: the Nasdaq-100 fell 1.38% and the S&P 500 fell 0.30%. Plus the week’s scheduled releases.
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The Nasdaq-100 closed Thursday 29 October at 29,402.51, down 410.65 points or 1.38%. The S&P 500 fell 0.30% to 7,720.39, compared with Wednesday’s close.
Largest US stocks
Of the eight mega-cap stocks we follow (Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Broadcom and Tesla), two closed higher on Thursday. Meta gained the most, 1.96% to $624.52, and Alphabet fell the most, 12.64% to $283.82.
Futures, bitcoin and the euro
E-mini S&P 500 front-month futures closed at 7,754.25 on Thursday. WTI crude futures closed at $102.00 a barrel and Comex gold futures at $4,031.40 an ounce on Thursday. Bitcoin ended the UTC day of 28 October at $81,268, up 0.57%. The European Central Bank’s euro reference rate was $1.113 per euro on 29 October.
Rates
The 10-year Treasury yield was 5.05% and the 2-year 4.67% on 28 October. The 10-year real yield was 2.67% (28 October) and 10-year breakeven inflation 2.35% (29 October). The effective fed funds rate was 3.88% on 28 October, inside the Fed’s 3.75–4.00% target range.
What a normal day looks like
The S&P 500’s 20-day realized volatility, from daily closes to 29 October, was 10.1% a year. At that rate one standard deviation of daily movement is about ±49 points (7,720.39 × 10.1% ÷ √252). About two days in three have historically stayed inside that range; realized volatility looks back, not forward, and real markets have fatter tails than this arithmetic assumes.
New filings
Filed with the SEC since our last note, as listed on EDGAR:
- Amazon.com Inc. (29 October): Form 8-K: Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition; Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
- Meta Platforms (29 October): Form 8-K: Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; Item 3.03; Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
- Alphabet Inc. (29 October): Quarterly Report (Form 10-Q).
Coming up
US releases and decisions scheduled in the seven days from Friday 30 October, from the official calendars:
- Tue 3 Nov, 10:00 AM ET: JOLTS job openings (BLS).
- Thu 5 Nov, 08:30 AM ET: Weekly jobless claims (Department of Labor).
- Fri 6 Nov, 08:30 AM ET: Employment Situation (NFP & unemployment rate) (BLS).
- Some prop firms restrict trading around these releases; each firm’s rule and its source are on our prop-firm pages.
Sources
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Sources: Yahoo Finance daily closes, delayed (^NDX, ^GSPC, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, META, AVGO, TSLA, ES=F, CL=F, GC=F, BTC-USD); FRED (DGS10, DGS2, DFII10, T10YIE, EFFR, DFEDTARL/U); ECB euro reference rates; SEC EDGAR; official release calendars (Federal Reserve, BEA, BLS, Department of Labor). The daily range is our calculation from 20-day realized volatility of S&P 500 closes. General market information, not investment advice.
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