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Market & Earnings Update Summary

📈 Market Overview

• Futures mixed

  • S&P 500: +0.1% (moved above 50-day line)

  • Dow: +0.3%

  • Nasdaq 100: Flat (recently reclaimed 50-day line)

  • Russell 2000: +0.3%

• 10-Year Treasury: ~4.04% (stable)

• Crude Oil: Down >1% (U.S.–Iran talks resume)

• Bitcoin: Slight pullback after recent bounce

• Gold & Silver: Slightly lower

• Jobless Claims: 212K (stable labor market)

Sector Breakdown – Market & Earnings Update

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🤖 AI & Semiconductors

Theme: Strong growth, mixed stock reactions

• NVIDIA

  • +82% EPS, +73% revenue

  • Raised guidance

  • Stock reaction muted

• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) & Broadcom

  • Near 50-day lines

  • Slight pullback post-NVDA

• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

  • Flat, strong trend

• Memory collaboration: SanDisk + SK Hynix

  • Developing high-bandwidth flash

Takeaway: AI growth intact, but selective stock reactions.

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💻 Software & Cloud

Theme: Earnings-driven volatility

• Salesforce

  • Strong EPS beat

  • $50B buyback

  • Improving momentum

• Snowflake

  • Beat + raised guidance

• Zoom Video Communications

  • Mixed quarter, cautious outlook

Takeaway: Quality software names stabilizing; guidance key.

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⚡ Energy & Oil

Theme: Pressure from crude weakness

• Oil down >1%

• U.S.–Iran talks influencing sentiment

• Mixed earnings across oil services & transport

Takeaway: Sector sensitive to geopolitical developments.

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⚛️ Quantum Computing

Theme: Speculative momentum building

• IonQ

  • 400%+ revenue growth

  • Strong forward guidance

• D-Wave Quantum

  • Revenue growth but wider loss

Takeaway: High volatility, narrative-driven moves.

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🧬 Biotech & Pharma

Theme: Stock-specific reactions

• Several earnings beats

• Mixed post-earnings price moves

Takeaway: Fundamental beats don’t always translate to gains.

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🏗 Infrastructure & Industrials

Theme: Solid earnings acceleration

• Infrastructure names showing revenue strength

• Construction & services firms outperforming

Takeaway: Cyclical strength emerging.

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🥤 Consumer Growth

• Celsius Holdings

  • +170% revenue growth

  • Strong gap up

• Monster Beverage

  • Earnings pending

  • Sector leadership theme

Takeaway: Select consumer growth names breaking out.

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🎯 Overall Sector View

• Leadership: AI / Semis

• Emerging Strength: Software, Infrastructure

• High Volatility: Quantum, Biotech

• Macro-Sensitive: Energy

• Selective Breakouts: Consumer growth

 

Feb 12 2026

 Market quick summary

• Indexes: Mixed but slightly positive. Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq-100 +0.4%, Russell 2000 +0.8%. S&P 500 near key level (could break up or fall below 50-day).

• Rates & macro: 10-yr yield ~4.16% (down from recent highs). Oil slightly lower. Jobless claims fell to 227k (higher than expected but still low). Home sales data pending.

Earnings & sectors

• Consumer/Staples strong: McDonald’s solid growth and market-share gains; Restaurant Brands and Anheuser-Busch also beat. Unilever announced buyback.

• Tech & chips: Cisco beat but margin concerns from rising memory costs; Samsung started shipping HBM4 (good for AI customers, mixed for some memory firms). Memory stocks generally up; SanDisk strongest.

• Mixed tech/software: AppLovin down despite beat; Check Point mixed; Palantir got U.S. gov’t expansion but cautious commentary from Michael Burry. Fastly surged on strong growth and outlook.

• Industrials/aerospace: Curtis-Wright, Cognex, and some chip equipment names posted solid gains. Granite Construction guided higher.

• Energy/shipping: Scorpio Tankers strong and raised dividend. Noble weak on outlook.

• Utilities: Mixed results across AEP, AEE, ETR.

• Materials: Albemarle loss but lithium outlook improving.

• Biotech: Viking Therapeutics jumped on obesity drug moving to Phase 3.

• Data center/REIT: Equinix missed EPS but strong forward guidance.

• Other movers: AST SpaceMobile down on $1B notes offering; some airlines, banks, and global firms mixed.

What’s next

• After-hours earnings: Applied Materials, Arista, Roku, Twilio, Coinbase, Rivian, others.

• Key macro tomorrow: CPI inflation repor