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Microsoft up 3.66% to five-sixteen.

Sep 26, 2026 · 9:06 PM CT · 2:05 · The MadBrooks Brief | Night | Sun, Sep 27

Microsoft up 3.66% to five-sixteen. That's your session headline. MSFT closed at five-sixteen-seventeen. Best mover on the board. Cloud narrative still printing.

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Microsoft up 3.66% to five-sixteen. That's your session headline.

MSFT closed at five-sixteen-seventeen. Best mover on the board. Cloud narrative still printing.

Intel down 3.45% to one-twenty-three. Margin pressure, no relief in sight.

META dropped 3.33% to seven-fifty-one. Ad spend jitters creeping back in.

Costco up 2.93% to nine-twenty-two. Consumer defensive catching a real bid.

CRM off 1.76% at two-thirty-four. Software rotation continues.

Oracle down 1.75% to one-thirty-seven. Same story, different ticker.

Tesla shed 1.54%, sitting at three-seventy-two. Volume light, conviction lighter.

Apple added 1.53% to three-forty-one. Quiet but consistent.

Now here's what the session actually said. JPMorgan and Bank of America both pushed higher while software sold off — financials bid, tech distributed, that divergence is clean. When banks catch while code names bleed, rate expectations are doing the talking.

Futures are green. SPY up half a percent. QQQ holding plus-forty-six basis points. VIX at fourteen-eighty-seven — nobody's panicking. Gold also up half a point. DIA leading the ETF stack at plus-ninety-four basis points, which lines up with the financials strength. IWM barely moved at plus-eleven. Small caps still sitting on the sideline.

Asian markets unavailable overnight. No data, no read, no guess.

Nothing on the economic calendar. Earnings tonight: ABLV, AIFU, AIIO, ALP, AMST, and ANEB after the close. ANEB carrying a consensus EPS estimate of negative ten-point-two cents. Small names, watch for volatility on thin float.

Session read: software sold, banks bought, mega-cap tech split down the middle. Microsoft and Apple held the line. Intel, META, CRM, Oracle did not.

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

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