Bitcoin slips to about $85,600

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major stock indexes finished Tuesday's session higher, with homebuilders, chip stocks and telecom names among the strongest areas. com rose while Seagate Technologies fell in trading today. Fund manager Cathie Wood bought a beaten-down biotech stock. 6%.

5%. 5%, and ended below its intraday highs. 5% gain. 1%.

The S&P 500 is moving further above its short-term moving averages after finding support last week at its 50-day line. Almost every sector advanced, with utilities and consumer discretionary leading. Healthcare was the only sector to finish lower, and its decline was small. 4%, respectively.

Volume was mixed, with trading on the New York Stock Exchange lower than Monday’s and Nasdaq volume higher, according to preliminary data. 7%. The index remained above its 200-day moving average, however. 5% after nearing resistance at the 50-day line.

80 per barrel. Bitcoin eased to about $85,600 per token. 28% after coming off the day’s lows. Cathie Wood added to biotech amid a 56% drop, with ARK Innovation buying 77,291 shares of Intellia Therapeutics on Monday.

The move did not immediately help Intellia Therapeutics, a gene-editing and genomic company. It fell 3% on the stock market today. The stock briefly moved above its 200-day moving average Tuesday before a bear attack pushed it back to test support at the 200-day line. 25, reached in October 2025.

Its IBD Composite Rating stands at 30 out of 99, which means it does not qualify for investors following The IBD Methodology as they look for true market leaders. 63 in 2027. 1%. 6% Tuesday.

m. ET, STOCK MARKET TODAY: MORE EQUITIES TEST ENTRIES. 37, MarketSurge analysis shows, though volume was Wesco has an IBD Composite Rating of 96, while analysts see earnings rising 30% this year and 19% in 2027. The stock is also pulling away after finding support at the 21-day exponential moving average.

11 before slipping back below that level. It ranks in the top 7% of equites for price performance over the past 12 months, and full-year earnings are expected to jump 168% this year. 54. Institutions have been heavy buyers, with the stock's Accumulation/Distribution Rating at A+.

It has a perfect IBD Composite Rating of 99, while analysts expect full-year earnings per share to rise 11% this year and 8% in 2027. m. ET Seagate, Western Digital Hit After Toshiba Report Memory and storage stocks Seagate Technologies and Western Digital were under pressure in the stock market today. Their declines came after The proposed deal is expected to be worth billions of dollars.

TDK is the world's only independent maker of these magnetic heads and is a key supplier to Toshiba. Seagate and Western Digital make magnetic heads for their hard disks in-house. Toshiba would gain strategically from buying the TDK business and would become more competitive in the data-center market. 5% bounce and slipping back below its key 50-day moving average.

Shares are still up more than 190% for the year. Western Digital skidded around 7%. It also wiped out its weekly gain and lost ground on its 50-day line, though it is still holding above its 50-day moving average for now. The stock remains up nearly 140% in 2026.

m. 23. It has been a fruitful week so far for breakouts, and Zebra Technologies is another promising equity clearing an entry. According to MarketSurge analysis, shares were up nearly 3% in recent trade.

Zebra's products include bar code scanners and radio frequency identification device readers. The stock is in an early-stage pattern and is pulling away after finding support at the 21-day exponential moving average. The relative strength line is also hitting a new high, an encouraging sign as the stock tries to break out. Zebra holds a best-possible IBD Composite Rating of 99, which reflects broad all-around performance.

It ranks among the top 6% of equities in terms of price performance over the past 12 months. It also has an EPS Rating of 90 out of 99. While per-share earnings are seen jumping 33% in 2026, they are then expected to slow to 5% growth next year. Big Money has been loading up on the stock of late, with its Accumulation/Distribution Rating at A.

In total, 65% of shares are held by funds. Highly ranked owners include the John Hancock Funds III Disciplined Value Mid-Cap Fund (JVMRX) and the Invesco Value Opportunities Fund (VVOSX). Zebra is increasingly viewed as a physical AI stock as its products aid automation and use AI for logistics. m.

17, according to MarketSurge analysis, with IBD recommending exposure in the 80%-to-100% range. The shares were still in the buy zone in recent trading after rising around 2%. Amphenol was 9% above its 50-day moving average. Its IBD Composite Rating was 98, while the stock was up about 32% for the year.

Analysts expect full-year earnings to rise 60% this year before slowing to growth of 24% in 2027. Amphenol makes cables and connectors for computer, telecom and cable markets, and has benefited from the ongoing artificial intelligence data center buildout. About 54% of shares are held by funds, including the Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX) and the MFS Growth Fund (MFEGX). The company is also a member of the IBD Leaderboard list of top stocks.

m. ET STOCK MARKET TODAY: CHIP STOCKS ON TOP, OIL PLAYS Investors looking for an early signal on the stock market today could gauge the relative strength of the S&P Select Industry exchange-traded funds. The action was mixed overall, but leaned to the upside. The SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF posted the strongest gain, rising nearly 2%.

It remains below its 2026 highs, but is holding above its short-term and major moving averages, according to MarketSurge analysis. The fund is up around 74% so far this year, well ahead of the benchmark S&P 500. The SPDR S&P Health Care Services ETF and the SPDR S&P Telecom ETF also firmed early, with gains of roughly 1% each. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF fell the most, dropping nearly 4%.

The fund moved below a flat base and is now under its 21-day exponential moving average and its 50-day moving average. The SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment & Services ETF also underperformed, slipping more than 1%. Shares are trying to hold the 200-day moving average and are still up nearly 36% for the year. m.

ET, Constellation Energy and Astera Labs were among the Nasdaq-100 winners, with gains of 12% and 5%, respectively. Respectively, they were among the top performers shortly after the market open. Four Reasons To Put This Nvidia, AMD Partner On Your Watchlist Right Now Meanwhile, Seagate Technology and Western Digital fell roughly 5% each in morning trading. (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires October 06, 2026 16:43 ET (20:43 GMT) Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

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