Nasdaq 100 futures fell 2.34% as Amazon and Intel tumbled after earnings.
CAMS Morning Market Brief.
Friday, October 30, 2026.
Good morning.
Nasdaq 100 futures fell 2.34% as Amazon and Intel tumbled after earnings.
S and P 500 futures fell 1.06%, while Dow futures were nearly flat.
Amazon lost 7.09% before the open.
Amazon said A W S sales grew 39%.
Free cash flow for the trailing year was an outflow of $42.4 billion as artificial-intelligence equipment spending rose.
The company kept its 2026 cash capital-spending estimate near $220 billion.
Intel sank 25.53% premarket after issuing a weaker fourth-quarter outlook.
Intel said the P C slowdown could last through the first half of next year.
Reuters reported that a two-week shutdown at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab cut the fourth-quarter revenue outlook by about $300 million.
Thursday's Nasdaq fell 1.38%, but most sector funds and small caps rose.
The 10-year Treasury yield was near 4.93% before sunrise.
The V I X was around 18.5.
W T I crude traded near $104 a barrel after an attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
U K maritime officials said explosive devices started an engine-room fire, which was extinguished, and the crew was safe.
The vessel continued to its next port, and the attackers were not identified.
At eight thirty A M Eastern, B L S releases the third-quarter Employment Cost Index.
Exxon, Chevron, AbbVie and AstraZeneca report before the open.
The opening test is whether the selling stays concentrated in technology or spreads as labor-cost data and oil enter the picture.
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