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CRM just printed plus twenty-two and a half percent overnight — AI earnings season is not done with you yet.

Aug 28, 2026 · 7:04 AM CT · 2:55 · The MadBrooks Brief | Pre market | Fri, Aug 28

CRM just printed plus twenty-two and a half percent overnight — AI earnings season is not done with you yet. Futures are green. QQQ up one-point-three-seven. SPY up sixty-six basis points. VIX sitting at fourteen-forty-eight — nobody's scared. Gold ticking higher at plus zero-point-seven-seven.…

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CRM just printed plus twenty-two and a half percent overnight — AI earnings season is not done with you yet.

Futures are green. QQQ up one-point-three-seven. SPY up sixty-six basis points. VIX sitting at fourteen-forty-eight — nobody's scared. Gold ticking higher at plus zero-point-seven-seven. Tech leads. Defensives lag. That's the whole macro story this morning.

Now the stocks.

CRM up twenty-two-point-five-eight to two-fifty-two. Earnings blowout. The AI monetization thesis just got receipts.

Nvidia up eight-point-seven-four to two-twenty-seven-ninety-eight. Read-through from CRM — cloud demand is real and the chips that power it are Nvidia's chips.

Broadcom up four-point-four-nine to three-seventy-one-fifty-four. AI infrastructure, same tailwind, different aisle.

Intel up four-point-three-six to ninety-two-oh-nine. Rising tide — sector bid, not a company-specific catalyst.

Tesla up two-point-six to three-fifty-four-eighty-one. Momentum, not a catalyst.

Oracle up two-point-oh-six to one-fifty-one-ninety-four. AI cloud halo — CRM lifted the whole stack.

Costco down two-point-two-four to nine-thirty-four-sixty-six. Earnings miss on margins — rotation out on a green tape.

Netflix down one-point-nine-nine to seventy-nine-eighty-four. No headline. Risk money is moving toward AI infrastructure and away from content.

Bank of America down one-point-seven to sixty-one-seventeen. Financials getting clipped while tech runs — that spread tells you exactly where conviction sits this morning.

Walmart down one-point-six-four to one-oh-two-sixty-three. Consumer defensive getting sold. Rotation is clean and intentional.

Amazon down one-point-five-four to two-fifty-six-twenty-six. That one's worth a note — Amazon has AI exposure, but it's lagging the pure-play infrastructure names. Market is being surgical about who actually benefits from the CRM print.

ETFs confirm the rotation. QQQ up one-point-three-seven. IWM up just twenty-nine basis points. DIA up nineteen. This is a tech-specific bid — broad market is a passenger.

No economic data drops today. Earnings on the docket include CHA before the open, consensus EPS at two-thirty-seven. Also on the list: AUSI, BACK, BANX, BLPG, BZYR. Smaller names — watch for volatility, not volume.

Asian overnight data unavailable.

One read to close on: the CRM print validated the entire AI spending narrative heading into a long weekend. Winners this morning are the names tied to that infrastructure. The losers — consumer staples, financials, content — aren't broken. They're just not the trade today. Market knows the difference.

Numbers don't lie. People do. Trade accordingly.

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