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Nakagai Daily Brief

Wed Oct 21, 2026

Before the open, every trading day

Premarket

S&P 500SPY
+0.23%
at 770.83, 8:19 AM ET
Nasdaq 100QQQ
+0.64%
at 721.83, 8:19 AM ET
DowDIA
+0.21%
at 525.32, 8:18 AM ET
Russell 2000IWM
+0.28%
at 276.57, 8:19 AM ET

Premarket price against the prior close, 15-minute delayed, from all US exchanges.

Indexes point higher premarket before a heavy earnings day led by Meta and Tesla

Tone

A mixed close: the Dow rose 1.01%, the Russell 2000 1.66%, the S&P 500 0.32%, the Nasdaq 100 slipped 0.15%. All four are higher premarket, the Nasdaq 100 most at 0.64%. The structure score of 54, Balanced, means the medium trend is up but the S&P 500 sits below its short-term average, near mid-range: neither side in control.

A tanker reportedly hit a naval mine in a Strait of Hormuz corridor, and Iran says it has nothing new to say to the US. NVIDIA is the most-covered company: reported $35 billion in chip orders from Chinese companies, talks on a $45 billion Anthropic AI deal that could favor Nvidia, and a string of partnership announcements.

No economic releases today. Philip Morris, Thermo Fisher, Abbott and NextEra report before the open. Meta, Tesla, IBM, Texas Instruments, Lam Research and SAP report after the close, with Meta and Tesla the largest.

Structure

Balanced54/100

Describes where SPY stands now. Not a forecast.

  • SPY below its 20-day average+0
  • 20-day average above the 50-day+25
  • In the middle third of its 20-day range+11.28
  • Premarket +0.2% vs prior close+18.16

News

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Today

Economic releases

No scheduled releases

Earnings

  • METAMeta Platforms, Inc.after close
  • TSLATesla, Inc. after close
  • LRCXLam Research Corporationafter close
  • PMPhilip Morris International Incpre-market
  • SAPSAP SEafter close
  • TXNTexas Instruments Incorporatedafter close
  • TMOThermo Fisher Scientific Incpre-market
  • IBMInternational Business Machines Corporationafter close
  • ABTAbbott Laboratoriespre-market
  • NEENextEra Energy, Inc.pre-market

Key levels

LevelS&P 500SPYNasdaq 100QQQDowDIARussell 2000IWM
Prior close769.09717.21524.21275.80
Prior high772.29722.74526.13276.88
Prior low764.34710.42518.51271.30
5-day high776.28740.43526.13276.88
5-day low760.65707.27513.15269.89
Premarket770.83721.83525.32276.57

Informational only. Not financial advice or a trade signal.

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