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Brazil ETF −20%, Chips +3.5%, Tesla Flips Its Verdict

Brazil — EWZ −20% on Lula while the chips bounce 3.5% and Tesla rallies out of its sold zone

The Brazil unwind arrived onshore with full force: the country ETF EWZ is down 20.2%, Nubank 17.6%, Santander Brasil 12.2%. The rest of the tape ignores it — semiconductors lead a broad rally (SOXX +3.5%, SMH +3.1%), the Nasdaq 100 is up 1.3%, the VIX is down 5.5% to 18.4, and momentum is finally outrunning low volatility again. On the last afternoon of their three-session windows, Tesla's 5.8% rally lifts it from 3.7% below its pre-report close to 1.9% above — flipping tonight's verdict from sold to flat — while Meta sinks deeper and SAP sits one percent below the line that would mark its report as paid. The neoclouds reversed Musk's overnight hit: CoreWeave +3.5%, IREN +4.5%. Bitcoin reclaimed 80,000; gold futures hold 4,033.

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TSLA SOXX CRWV EWZ VZ META QQQ CDNS

The Midday 10 Mon, Oct 26, 2026 ~60 seconds 12:30 ET

Brazil crashes alone: EWZ −20% and Nubank −17.6% against a tape where semis lead a broad rally, the VIX slides to 18.4, momentum outruns low volatility, and Tesla's 5.8% jump rewrites tonight's earnings scorecard in the final session.

US afternoon, intraday quotes ~14:35 ET (delayed)

  1. Tesla
  2. Semiconductors
  3. Neoclouds — Musk's hit reversed
  4. Brazil — the unwind lands onshore
  5. Verizon
  6. Meta
  7. ETF board
  8. The round numbers hold
  9. CDNS, AMKR and CLS into tonight's close
  10. Grading night — the slate at mid-afternoon

The ten lines

  1. 1

    UP Tesla

    TSLA

    Tesla rallies 5.8% to 393.80 — and rewrites tonight's scorecard in the final session. We grade last Wednesday's reports at today's close, three sessions out, with ±3% from the pre-report close as the band: Tesla entered the afternoon 3.7% below its 386.47 entry, deep enough to be marked sold, and now trades 1.9% above it — a flat verdict, rescued in the last hours of the window.

  2. 2

    UP Semiconductors

    SOXX

    The chip complex leads everything: SOXX +3.5%, SMH +3.1%, with optics name Applied Optoelectronics +8.8% and Bloom Energy +7.2% on the energy-tech side. Lam Research, graded tonight, gains 3.8% to 238.76 — still 8.5% below its pre-report close, so the bounce softens the verdict without changing it.

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  4. 3

    UP Neoclouds — Musk's hit reversed

    CRWV

    The neoclouds reversed the overnight selling that followed Musk's die-off post: CoreWeave +3.5% to 56.15, IREN +4.5%, Nebius +0.6%. One session does not settle a credit question, but the market's first full-day answer to 'guppy-level death' was to buy the sector back.

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