The Nasdaq rose 1.05% as artificial-intelligence shares revived, while the S and P 500 gained 0.58%.
CAMS Closing Market Recap.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
Good afternoon.
The Nasdaq rose 1.05% as artificial-intelligence shares revived, while the S and P 500 gained 0.58%.
The S and P 500 closed near 7,757.
The Nasdaq closed near 26,703, and the Dow near 52,856.
The Russell 2000 added 0.38%.
Seven of eleven tracked sector funds finished higher.
Technology gained 1.68%, and the semiconductor fund rose 1.89%.
Communication services, real estate, consumer staples, and health care closed lower.
The equal-weight S and P fund rose, but it trailed the cap-weighted index.
The cap-weighted S and P fund traded about 28 million shares, below its recent average.
The 10-year Treasury yield was near 5.12%, and the 2-year yield edged higher.
The dollar index was nearly flat.
The V I X closed at 16.66.
December WTI crude finished near $98 a barrel.
December Brent finished near $110, and December gold near $4,153.
SpaceX rose 7.79% after its quarterly report.
Supermicro gained 9.55% after raising its preliminary revenue and margin ranges.
Netflix fell 5.31% after its outlook disappointed investors.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported median weekly earnings of $1,232, up 1.5% from a year earlier.
Consumer prices rose 3.5% over the same period.
The E I A reported a 3.1 million barrel weekly draw in commercial crude inventories.
The Federal Reserve had no policy decision today, and its next meeting is October 27 and 28.
After the bell, Texas Instruments reported revenue of about $6.1 billion and guided next-quarter revenue from $5.8 billion to $6.3 billion.
Nvidia also announced supplier capacity plans across substrates, packaging, testing, and optical engines.
The close showed renewed demand for artificial-intelligence shares, but equal-weight participation and fund volume were less convincing than the headline indexes.
The next test is whether after-hours results confirm the day's growth leadership without pushing yields higher.
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