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WHAT MATTERS TODAYPublished 2 Nov 2026 • 1 min read•Primary source

Nasdaq-100 falls 3.5% as Broadcom falls 5%; US jobs report on Friday

Closes for Friday 30 October: the Nasdaq-100 fell 3.46% and the S&P 500 fell 1.82%. Plus the week’s scheduled releases.

Checked before publishing: software matched every figure in this piece to the data it came from (Yahoo Finance daily closes (delayed); FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates; SEC EDGAR; Official release calendar). How we check

Written by software from the data shown, at 00:58 ET on 2 November 2026. Not edited before publication. How this is made

Closes, filings and official calendars

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Tickers:
Nasdaq-100 close (Fri 30 Oct)
28,384.85 (−3.46%)
S&P 500 close (Fri 30 Oct)
7,580.07 (−1.82%)
S&P 500 20-day realized volatility (Fri 30 Oct)
11.7%

The Nasdaq-100 closed Friday 30 October at 28,384.85, down 1,017.66 points or 3.46%. The S&P 500 fell 1.82% to 7,580.07, compared with Thursday’s close.

Largest US stocks

Of the eight mega-cap stocks we follow (Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Broadcom and Tesla), none closed higher on Friday. Tesla fell the most, 0.87% to $399.81, and Broadcom fell the most, 5.48% to $326.08.

Futures, bitcoin and the euro

E-mini S&P 500 front-month futures closed at 7,614.00 on Friday. WTI crude futures closed at $104.12 a barrel and Comex gold futures at $3,898.90 an ounce on Friday. Bitcoin ended the UTC day of 31 October at $77,435, up 0.31%. The European Central Bank’s euro reference rate was $1.1172 per euro on 30 October.

Rates

The 10-year Treasury yield was 4.98% and the 2-year 4.61% on 29 October. The 10-year real yield was 2.63% (29 October) and 10-year breakeven inflation 2.34% (30 October). The effective fed funds rate was 3.88% on 29 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 30 October, was 11.7% a year. At that rate one standard deviation of daily movement is about ±56 points (7,580.07 × 11.7% ÷ √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. (30 October): Quarterly Report (Form 10-Q).

Coming up

US releases and decisions scheduled in the seven days from Monday 2 November, from the official calendars:

  • Tomorrow, 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

  1. Yahoo Finance daily closes (delayed)
  2. FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  3. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates
  4. SEC EDGAR
  5. Official release calendar
  6. Official release calendar
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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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