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| TUE OCT 6 Close (mid-afternoon ~1:05 CT) · SPY ↑0.68% QQQ ↑0.69% DIA ↑0.47% IWM ↓0.64% |
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KEY TAKES - S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit intraday records. 10-year 5.27% (MT Newswire 1:29 pm ET). IWM lagged.
- Tuesday paid for contracts: Google's 20-year nuclear deal, and McKesson plus CD&R's $32.05 cash bid for Option Care.
- A longtime Buffett student on the final, least-understood energy move of Buffett’s career(From MarketWise)
- APUS is day two with no new wire. IPDN faded from $6.78 on a $1.18M GPU deal. Both thin.
- Fed September-meeting minutes land Wed Oct 7. TLN is the watch.
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This is a mid-afternoon read, not the official close. Around 1:05 p.m. CT: SPY 780.14 (+0.68%), QQQ 761.43 (+0.69%), DIA 514.53 (+0.47%), IWM 281.56 (-0.64%). S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit fresh intraday records on big tech while Treasury yields fell (10-year 5.27%, MT Newswire 1:29 pm ET). Small caps lagged. The money went to signed deals: Google's nuclear contract and a cash buyout. |
TODAY'S TOP 5 GAINERS 1 · APUS+61.0% - $7.39 | NYSE American - Day two of Monday's MindWave/BlockAssure deal (GlobeNewswire Oct 5 08:00 ET). No new wire Tuesday. Thin. 2 · IPDN+39.7% - $4.33 | Nasdaq CM - About $1.18M for two NVIDIA B300 eight-GPU systems (24/7 Market News 08:46 ET Oct 6). Faded from $6.78. Thin. 3 · OPCH+33.1% - $31.10 | Nasdaq GS - McKesson plus CD&R $32.05/share cash, about $5.8B EV (MT Newswire 13:30 ET). $0.95 under cash, close H1 2027. 4 · CEG+13.4% - $303.56 | Nasdaq GS - Google 20-year deal, 890 MW nuclear to PJM, more than $4.3B at 11 plants (MT 11:45 ET). VST +10.8% on a DOE commitment up to $4.2B. TLN +12.3% with no wire, moving with it. 5 · CTVA+12.3% - $13.92 | NYSE - JPMorgan to Overweight, PT $19 from $14.90 after the Vylor spinoff (MT 05:28 ET). Noise: MOBX, OLOX, SMXT, AIFA. Big percent, no same-day wire. |
THE SIGNAL Big Tech is now paying for 20 years of existing nuclear output, and Washington is lining up loans to keep old reactors running (Vistra's conditional DOE commitment of up to $4.2B). A contracted, always-on megawatt just got more expensive, and the owners of reactors (CEG, VST, TLN) got re-rated in one session. Who's hurt: later buyers of power on that grid, who may pay more for it, and late buyers of names that ran with no contract of their own (TLN had no wire). OPCH buyers at about $31.10 now earn about 3% to wait for a first-half 2027 close. Exposed next session: TLN into Wed Oct 7 Fed minutes, CEG chasers above the $291 open, OPCH spread buyers (vote, H1 2027 close), and lagging IWM small caps. Wrong if: CEG gives back its $291 open, or the 10-year climbs back above 5.30% after Wednesday's Fed minutes. |
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HEADLINE OF THE DAY “Top Midday Stories: Google Strikes 20-Year Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation; Marvell Raises Revenue Guidance for 2026-27” MT Newswire via QuoteMedia | Oct 6, 2026 11:45 ET Google locked 890 MW of nuclear onto the PJM grid for 20 years, a deal that enables more than $4.3B of equipment and technology at 11 Constellation plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. That puts a 20-year price on power that already exists, set by one of the biggest buyers in AI. Anyone shopping for power on that grid later is bidding against it. |
ONE TO WATCH TLN · Fed September-meeting minutes Wed Oct 7. Opened $349.15. TLN ran 12% with no wire of its own. Does it hold that open through Wednesday's Fed minutes, or was that just CEG's deal rubbing off? |
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