Daylight pays the five-print evening at scale — Salesforce +20%, Okta +27%, CrowdStrike +18%, Nvidia +7.6% — while ten of eleven sectors trade red and technology alone carries the index.
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The Midday 10 Thu, Aug 27, 2026 ~60 seconds 12:30 ET
The five-print evening is being paid at scale in daylight — Salesforce, Okta, CrowdStrike and Nvidia all extend well beyond their after-hours prints, and Synopsys flips its overnight fade into a double-digit payment. Underneath, the tape is the narrowest kind of green: Technology (+2.34%) is the only positive sector of eleven, and the S&P's +0.65% is carried by it alone.
US midday, intraday quotes (delayed)
The ten lines
- 1
UP Nvidia
NVDA
NVDA runs +7.59% to 225.57 by midday, extending last night's +4.7% after-hours climb — the muted-release-then-paid-call sequence is now a paid daylight session on the supply-constrained 70% fiscal 2028 guide. The chart's invalidation at 196.27 sits nearly thirty points below.
- 2
UP Salesforce
CRM
CRM adds +20.38% to 247.53, half again beyond its +13% after-hours print, the Claudeforce quarter carrying cleanly into daylight. The gain pulls Software (IGV, +6.4%) to the top of the board on its own.
- ETF Dispersion Which themes move together and which have decoupled — dispersion across the ETF complex, nightly. See the dispersion →
- 3
UP Okta · CrowdStrike
OKTA
The cyber pair is the session's widest payment: OKTA +26.99% to 170.70 and CRWD +17.87% to 222.99 — the complex that was sold as a block on Tuesday is being repriced name by name, at scale, inside three sessions.
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Ten lines on the US midday tape, not advice — an investment diary. Published every trading day at 12:30 ET. See The Morning 10 and the Daily Pulse.