⏱️ KOD +177% on DAYBREAK week

KEY TAKES

• Sep 25 close to Friday midday: SPY 769.32, down 0.3%. QQQ 749.85, up 0.7%. DIA 510.24, down 1.4%. Soft NFP, 29,000 versus about 90,000, was Friday's macro.
• Dated releases did the rest: KOD DAYBREAK, AMOD's 3,170 BTC and Nasdaq letter, QTEX at 20 mK, FEAM's Searles close, NXL's Brazil deal.
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• Thursday's 10-year hit multi-year highs. Friday's pause bid reached QQQ and still left DIA red. Duration books carry that gap into Monday.

Soft payrolls cheapened an October hike and paid duration into Friday. The Nasdaq kept a green week. The Dow still wears Thursday's yield spike. Friday's numbers are as of midday, not the official close.

The five names below each have a timestamped release. That is the other half of the week, next to the index split.

THIS WEEK'S TOP 5

1 · KOD +177% wk — $89.57 from $32.35. PR Newswire Monday 06:30 ET: Zenkuda and tabirafusp-ted met DAYBREAK primary endpoints in wet AMD versus aflibercept. 54% on 6-month durability. Multi-indication BLA planned for 4Q2026. About 1.21 million shares.

2 · AMOD +106% wk — $3.39 from $1.65. The Fly Oct 1: AMOD Tech received 3,170 BTC. Friday 8-K about 08:35 ET confirms Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) after the Sep 30 PIPE. About 167.5 million shares.

3 · QTEX +53% wk — $1.19. GlobeNewswire and The Fly, Oct 1, 08:45 to 08:54 ET: cryogenic AME interconnect test at 20 mK, isolation above 100 dB. About 91.4 million shares.

4 · FEAM +36% wk — $3.81. ACCESS Newswire and The Fly, Friday 08:30 to 08:39 ET: Searles Valley Minerals acquisition completed. About 1.05 million shares.

5 · NXL +27% wk — $5.57 from $4.39. GlobeNewswire 08:30 ET Oct 1: Brazil and South America distribution plus local manufacturing. Friday gave back part of Thursday's 74% day. About 1.03 million shares.

THE WEEK'S SIGNAL

Soft NFP paid duration into Friday while DIA finished the week red. DAYBREAK, the Nasdaq letter, the cryo test, Searles, and the Brazil deal beat the index path. A percent with no preferred release stays off this list.

Wrong if: Monday yields bounce back toward Thursday's multi-year highs and KOD plus AMOD lose follow-through volume.

HEADLINE OF THE WEEK

“Cooler U.S. Jobs Growth Supports A Federal Reserve Pause In October”

SeekingAlpha via QuoteMedia | Friday Oct 2, 11:04 ET

Cooler payrolls made an October hike less plausible, so QQQ could finish green on a week DIA lost 1.4%. The pause is the bid that showed up. Monday still has to confirm it if the 10-year revisits Thursday.

THE TAPE LESSON

A week percent without a dated wire is empty tape. One outsized week stayed off this list after a Sep 29 8-K reported no undisclosed material development. The Dow's red week came from yields. KOD through NXL are on the board because each release had a date. Monday's tell is whether the pause survives a bounce toward Thursday's highs. TNMG's Japan sale, expected close on or before Oct 30, is the next corporate date. Sunday owns that chase.

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