Stock market today: Dow falls, S&P 500 and Nasdaq retreat from records amid bond market jitters

US stocks fell on Wednesday morning as global bond yields rose, while investors assessed the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped 0.6%. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) declined 0.2%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.2% with both indexes retreating from record highs.

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The yield on 30-year Treasury (^TYX) bonds rose to its highest level since 2002 before paring back gains. The 30-year yield closed at 5.66%.

In the afternoon, investors saw the released minutes from the Fed’s September meeting, which indicated that policymakers see another rate hike before the end of the year, though no timeline was given. As of Wednesday, traders priced in roughly 17% odds of a rate hike at the Fed’s October meeting next week.

Sentiment had turned more buoyant in markets this week as bullish earnings estimates helped lift major indexes to all-time highs. But as Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi pointed out on Tuesday, those records belie a highly concentrated market in which the index’s top three holdings (Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT)) account for roughly a fifth of the S&P 500.

Factors that have weighed on markets this year could still pose impediments. Brent crude oil futures (BZ=F) remain near $100 per barrel amid the latest Houthi attacks in the Middle East.

On the earnings docket, Levi Strauss & Co. (LEVI) and Applied Digital (APLD) report results.

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Wed, October 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM UTC
S&P 500, Nasdaq retreat from record highs as bond yields rise, Nvidia slips from all-time high
Stocks retreated from record highs on Wednesday as bond yields climbed higher and oil rose back toward $100 per barrel.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped 0.6%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) slipped 0.2% from their record highs.
AI chip darlings Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) also slipped less than 1% from their all-time highs.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) fell to $83,000 amid forced liquidations over the past 24 hours.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
Anthropic reveals Haiku 5.5 model as AI pricing war intensifies
Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley reports:
Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) took the wraps off its Claude Haiku 5.5 model on Wednesday, the latest in its Claude 5.5 family, promising improved and lower costs than its predecessor.
According to the AI startup, Haiku 5.5 is the company’s best lightweight model yet and beats out Haiku 4.5 in coding, computer use, and knowledge work.
Anthropic’s Haiku is designed for quick, low-cost use cases, whereas its Sonnet and Opus offer higher-level coding, enterprise, and other capabilities. The company’s Fable is its most powerful model and is meant for days-long workloads.
Read more here.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM UTC
Fed minutes show another rate hike would “likely be appropriate by year end”
The Federal Reserve minutes of the September policy meeting showed officials leaning toward another rate hike before the end of the year.
“With regard to the outlook for monetary policy beyond the current meeting, most participants assessed that another increase in the target range for the federal funds rate would likely be appropriate by year end,” stated the minutes released on Wednesday afternoon.
However, the minutes said participants “emphasized that they approached each meeting with an open mind and decisions at future meetings would depend on incoming information and its implications for the outlook and the balance of risks.”
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM UTC
These 7 major S&P 500 stocks need to rally at least 200% to reclaim their peaks
Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi reports:
It’s going to be a very long road back to all-time stock price highs for some well-known companies battling through challenging industry conditions and management missteps.
Seven S&P 500 (^GSPC) stocks with market caps above $20 billion need to gain at least 200% to get back to all-time highs, the Bespoke team pointed out. They include: PG&E (PCG), PayPal (PYPL), Ford (F), Nike (NKE), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Zoetis (ZTS), and Crown Castle (CCI).
PayPal and Nike stand out as indicative of the theme that ties these companies together: far-from-amazing financial years and waning investor confidence.
Read more here.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM UTC
SailPoint CEO: AI agents need a ‘kill switch’ to stop the worst from happening
Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi reports:
Humans should be able to instantly put AI agents to sleep if they cause harm to a business.
“We talk about discover, govern, and protect. The ultimate protection is a kill switch,” SailPoint (SAIL) CEO Mark McClain said on Yahoo Finance’s Sozzi Unleashed. “But we’re also beginning to try to get folks to understand there’s a danger in an unsophisticated kill switch.”
Read more here.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC
Webull stock on track for worst day in a year
Webull (BULL) stock plunged 20% on Wednesday after US lawmakers reportedly flagged that the company is “tied in structural ways” to China’s government, risking its regulatory standing in the US.
The stock was on track for its worst daily drop since April 17, 2025, according to Dow Jones and FactSet market data. Over the past month, the stock has cratered by 40%.
On Wednesday, CNBC reported that a bipartisan House Select Committee on China assessment found that the company poses a national security risk and that concerns about its operations have “escalated” over the past year.
Webull is a digital investment platform headquartered in St. Petersburg, Fla. Yet the congressional report stated there was “a profound gap” between how the company marketed itself as an American company and how it is actually controlled.
Webull pushed back on the report, telling CNBC that it contained “significant inaccuracies and unsupported conclusions.”
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC
Bitcoin falls below $83,000, dragging down Coinbase, Robinhood, and Strategy stocks
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) prices tumbled more than 3% to $83,000 on Wednesday, sending crypto-related stocks lower as forced long liquidations added to a broader market sell-off.
The token hovered below $83,000 after a swift crypto sell-off triggered roughly $696 million in liquidations over 24 hours, with long-positioned traders bearing almost all of the losses, according to Coinglass data.
The pullback follows bitcoin’s rally in early October to its highest price level since January.
“Trading volume remains unusually low” across spot exchanges and US ETFs compared with historical averages, said Glassnode head of research Frederik Theissen. “The market now leans on positioning more than on fresh demand.”
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Wed, October 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM UTC
SpaceX stock slips on report of its $40 billion in new debt for Nvidia chips
Yahoo Finance’s Pras Subramanian reports that SpaceX (SPCX) stock slipped in early trading on Wednesday as the Elon Musk-led space and AI company is reportedly set to tap the debt markets in a big way.
Pras writes:
Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is looking to issue $40 billion in new debt to buy Nvidia chips for its data centers. Per the report, the split would be $10 billion in bank loans and $30 billion in investment-grade debt, with bond investment giant PIMCO looking at the deal, and Apollo Global leading the financing. (Disclosure: Yahoo is a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.)
SpaceX stock was down 2% in early trade.
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Wed, October 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM UTC
Treasury yields hit 24-year highs, weighing on markets
Treasury yields hit new 24-year highs on Wednesday before paring back slightly.
The 10-year yield (^TNX) rose as high as 5.36%, its highest level since April 2002. The 30-year yield (^TYX) rose to a high of 5.73%, its highest level since May 2002.
“We do not see evidence that levels have overrun moves in Fed expectations, and on the contrary, we believe current pricing looks appropriate,” JPMorgan analysts wrote last Friday. “If the market continues to price an incrementally more hawkish FOMC in response to incoming economic data, we could see upward repricing continue from here.”
At 2 p.m. ET, the Fed will release the minutes from its September meeting, where officials opted to raise interest rates by 25 basis points. The minutes are slated to be particularly intriguing as Chairman Kevin Warsh took a more hawkish stance in September.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 1:41 PM UTC
US stocks retreat from record highs as oil prices, yields push higher
US stocks fell at Wednesday’s open as investors weighed the balance of record-high stock indexes against overnight advances in oil prices and government bond yields ahead of the Federal Reserve’s release of minutes from its September meeting.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell 0.8%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) opened 0.7% and 0.5% lower, respectively, after closing at record highs Tuesday.

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Stock indexes have been running higher in recent days, thanks in large part to investor enthusiasm for a handful of AI boom giants that have dragged expectations for strong third quarter earnings growth higher. Meanwhile, rising borrowing costs remain the key worry. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX) climbed to 5.35% Wednesday morning, a multidecade high until last week.
Oil prices also edged higher, with Brent crude futures (BZ=F) moving toward $102 per barrel after Houthi attacks on Saudi airports revived concerns about the Middle East conflict.
Investors will turn later Wednesday to minutes from the Fed’s September meeting as the latest opportunity to gauge appetite among policymakers for another rate hike.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM UTC
Oil prices climb above $100 on Strait of Hormuz attacks, Gulf storm threat
Oil prices rose on Wednesday amid increased attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and an incoming storm in the Gulf Coast region.
Brent crude (BZ=F) rose to trade back above $101 per barrel while West Texas Intermediate crude (CL=F) was close to $90 a barrel.
Despite increased shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks, UK officials have reported at least nine attacks in the critical waterway so far in October amid a continued US-Iran conflict.
Meanwhile, a tropical storm is nearing the Gulf coast, threatening to make landfall as a hurricane by Friday. Chevron said it is evacuating nonessential personnel from its offshore platforms in the region.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTC
Agentic AI is ushering in a CPU ‘renaissance’
Yahoo Finance’s Hamza Shaban reports:
The agents have arrived. And so has the hardware that powers them.
Meta’s (META) Muse and OpenAI’s (OPAI.PVT) Dots have thrust sophisticated digital assistants at the front of their AI sales pitch. And in the same way that the race to train increasingly competent models has catapulted GPU makers to the top of the stock charts, the chipmakers sustaining AI agents are enjoying a “renaissance,” Citi analyst Atif Malik put it in a note to clients on Tuesday, upgrading AMD’s price target.
The potential success of AI agents has forced a rethink of the CPU market. Malik wrote that the total market for CPUs should be expanded from $29 billion in 2025 to $300 billion in 2030, in the wake of Meta’s Muse debut.
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Wed, October 7, 2026 at 11:29 AM UTC
Constellation Brands stock falls despite Corona maker posting better-than-expected results
Constellation Brands (STZ) stock fell 5% despite the Corona and Modelo beer maker beating Wall Street’s earnings expectations.
In the second quarter, Constellation Brands reported $2.63 billion in net sales, above analysts’ expectations of $2.54 billion, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence consensus data. Adjusted earnings per share of $3.74 also topped estimates of $3.55.
Constellation Brands said that off-premise sales, which include beverages sold at grocery and convenience stores, declined, while on-premise sales at restaurants and bars grew.
The same trend held for the World Cup in June and July, where on-premise volumes were strong, but off-premise World Cup sales came in below industry expectations.
The company reaffirmed its full-year adjusted earnings per share forecast of $11.20-$11.90. It continues to see beer sales down 1% to up 1%, wine sales down 1% to up 1%, and enterprise sales down 1% to up 1%.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM UTC
AI agents are going rogue, and the lawsuits are going to get messy
Yahoo Finance’s Hamza Shaban writes in today’s Morning Brief newsletter:
It’s a new fact of life that AI agents are bypassing their sandboxes to get into places they aren’t supposed to. We’ve learned to stomach (or largely ignore) cyberattacks as part of the cost of doing business, or really, existing, while being connected to the internet.
But AI agents present a new dilemma. Rather than bad actors probing vulnerabilities, wielding whatever tools they can, the agents are the sophisticated products of some of the most influential and powerful tech companies in the world.
“Agents going rogue is the biggest risk today. Imagine an agent on your corporate network hacked or hijacked or it goes rogue,” Zscaler (ZS) founder and CEO Jay Chaudhry said on Yahoo Finance’s Sozzi Unleashed. “Don’t trust AI agents.”
Every week, it seems, we’re seeing sheepish disclosures by OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and co. that its agents “accidentally” hacked something it shouldn’t have.
A society has to grapple with some element of crime. But what if those criminal acts are in part perpetuated by the supposedly upstanding corporations powering the S&P 500? While defense against rogue agents may feel futile, this is America, and we can always go on offense and throw the book.
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Wed, October 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM UTC
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening today.
Wed, October 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM UTC
Dollar holds losses as markets await Fed minutes, speakers
Reuters reports:
The US dollar remained lower on Wednesday after stress in European bond markets abated and as eyes turned to the release of Federal Reserve minutes and speeches by its policymakers for signals on a potential rate hike.
The ‌euro surged by the most in seven weeks in the prior session as French bond yields slid after the frontrunner in next ‌spring’s presidential election outlined plans to slash spending. The yen weakened even after a dovish Bank of Japan board member said she would support interest rate increases.
Later on Wednesday, the US central bank is due to release minutes of its September 15-16 policy meeting when it raised interest rates to contend with inflation. Comments from Fed policymakers have come across as less hawkish following lower-than-expected personal consumption expenditures (PCE) data and jobs data last week.
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