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Alphabet (Google's parent company) shares plunged almost 10% in after-hours trading following its quarterly report. On the morning of October 29, this dragged Nasdaq 100 futures down to 29,620 points.
In its 10-Q filing (a mandatory quarterly document for the US market regulator, the SEC), Microsoft disclosed for the first time how much its deal with OpenAI brings in: $10 billion for July-September. That is about 11% of the corporation's total revenue.
Alphabet (Google's parent company) reported for Q3 on the evening of October 28 at 23:00 Moscow time and lost 10% in the evening session. It wasn't revenue that let it down, but profit and cash: free cash flow went negative for the second quarter in a row.
On the evening of October 28, Oracle (an American corporation, one of the largest providers of cloud infrastructure and enterprise software) confirmed its financial targets for fiscal 2027. ORCL shares responded with a gain of about 10%.
Bitcoin failed to hold above $81,687 and dropped to $80,297 on the Bitstamp exchange, down about 0.3% over the day. Buyers did not break through the 50-day moving average ahead of the Fed decision and tech earnings reports.
Today the Fed announces its rate decision at 21:00 MSK, and after the US session closes Microsoft and Alphabet report - the first two of the companies whose AI infrastructure spending drives Nvidia's revenue. Heading into the event, the Nasdaq Composite stood at 26,477.81 points.
AMD shares closed Tuesday, October 27 at $560.26 (+$28.98, +5.45%) - the best session in the entire current rally of the semiconductor sector. The reason is specific: the company announced that its Helios systems are installed and being tested at Meta, and it will invest $1 billion in Meta's share offering.
Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, is set to become the first operator of perpetual futures on the Hyperliquid blockchain operating under the supervision of the US regulator CFTC. The announcement came out on October 26, 2026; no launch date was given.
Meta (recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) announced the placement of new securities worth $35B. The money will go toward capital expenditures in artificial intelligence - this is one of the largest amounts raised of this kind among technology companies.
From October 28 to 30, four central banks issue rate decisions, and on the 29th US GDP and PCE come out at the same time. The market has already priced in rates staying unchanged, so it will be the wording, not the numbers themselves, that moves the instruments.
Microsoft publishes first-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Wednesday, October 28, after the US market close - the same evening as the Fed decision and Alphabet's report. For Nasdaq, this is a concentrated test of whether AI infrastructure investments are paying off.
On Thursday, October 22, the Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,008.86 - down 694 points, or 2.6%. The main blow fell on chipmakers: the Philadelphia Semiconductor sector index plunged 6.72%.
The preliminary business activity indices for October came in above forecasts across all three sectors, yet the pound barely gained against the dollar - but it pushed the euro to a 17-month low.
BTC's trip to $85,000 ended in a reversal: from a high of $84,840 the price fell to $81,500, down almost 3%. The trigger did not come from crypto - the market was disappointed by Tesla's earnings report, and $431 million in leveraged positions were wiped out in a day.
On Thursday, October 22, Asian markets crashed: China's CSI 300 index lost 2% during the session and fell 20% from its June high. A 20% drop from the peak is the formal definition of a bear market.
Tesla published its third-quarter report on October 21 at 23:04 Moscow time. Adjusted profit came in better than forecast - 48 cents per share versus the expected 44, while total revenue fell slightly short: $28.05 billion versus the forecast of $28.13 billion.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META; the company is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) on October 21 reported revenue above forecast, but on the same day a court in New Mexico ordered it to pay $25 billion in a data privacy case. The shares reacted with a rise of about 2%, to $708.
In 24 hours, BTC gained about 2.4% and rose to $83,500 - a weekly high. The rebound follows last week's decline, when crypto tumbled along with Nasdaq on a hot US inflation report.
Elon Musk confirmed on SpaceX's quarterly call: the boards of directors of both companies have formed special committees to discuss a merger. The deal could become the largest corporate one in history; Tesla shares in after-hours trading have already risen to $380.29.
SpaceX reported third-quarter 2026 results after market close on October 20: revenue of $14.58B versus the $12.74-13.0B consensus and net income of $4.40B versus a $1.05B loss a year earlier.
On October 20 the calendar is packed from night until late evening: at 04:15 Moscow time China announces its benchmark LPR rate, at 12:00 the ZEW indices for Germany and the Eurozone are released, at 15:15 - weekly ADP employment data for the US, and at 23:05 Netflix reports. The movement will be stretched across the whole day rather than gathered into a single candle.
On Tuesday and Wednesday after the US market close, quarterly reports from Tesla, Meta, Netflix and SpaceX are released. Nasdaq values just the first three at a combined $3.6 trillion - the reaction in their shares drags the entire tech sector along with it.
On Friday, October 16, the US stock market closed lower: Nasdaq lost 2.3%, S&P 500 - 1.2%. For the week, the Nasdaq 100 posted its steepest decline since April 2025.
On October 16, the calendar has four reasons for movement at once: inflation in the European Union, US industrial statistics, the fifth day of the annual IMF and World Bank meeting with central bank heads participating, and a morning speech by Fed Chair Warsh.
