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Tech is green across the board and the Dow futures are leading — that's your Sunday night setup heading into Monday open.

Sep 13, 2026 · 7:05 AM CT · 2:24 · The MadBrooks Brief | Pre market | Sun, Sep 13

Tech is green across the board and the Dow futures are leading — that's your Sunday night setup heading into Monday open. Asian markets — no data overnight. Flying blind on the eastern read.

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Tech is green across the board and the Dow futures are leading — that's your Sunday night setup heading into Monday open.

Asian markets — no data overnight. Flying blind on the eastern read.

Futures: SPY up 0.85. QQQ up 0.87. DIA outpacing both at plus 0.97. IWM lagging at 0.41 — small caps not fully bought in. VIX sitting at 15.84, calm. Gold up 1.02 — hedge money still moving.

No economic calendar events today. Nothing on the macro tape to dodge.

Now the stocks.

INTC up 2.61%, $102.94 — semiconductor bounce.

AMD up 2.49%, $516.13 — chips moving in tandem.

UNH down 2.37%, $379.09 — healthcare bleeding while everything else pops.

AMZN up 1.94%, $256.78 — cloud appetite.

CRM up 1.94%, $247.72 — enterprise bid.

NFLX up 1.83%, $77.40 — momentum.

GOOGL up 1.77%, $338.50 — ad revenue optimism.

AAPL up 1.75%, $332.27 — steady.

ORCL down 1.74%, $150.28 — bucking the tech rally. While everything else is printing green, Oracle is sliding — that kind of divergence inside a sector sweep deserves a second look.

WMT up 1.34%, $107.15 — consumer staples catching a bid in a risk-on tape. Not the loudest name today, but staples lifting alongside tech tells you this move has width.

Tech is running a clean sweep on the leaders. Eight names, seven green, one red. UNH is the outlier — and in a broad risk-on session, that divergence is worth watching.

Earnings on deck: CBRL reports before the open, EPS estimate 0.0946 — Cracker Barrel, discretionary, low bar. CODA also pre-market, estimate 0.1163. CLSD reports after the close, estimate negative 0.2693 — biotech, loss expected. BRRE, EBZT, and GFAI have no consensus estimates published.

Low-volume Sunday night tape. Moves can exaggerate. The real confirmation comes at open.

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

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