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Oil Drops 6% on Iran Talks; Amazon +5%, Oracle −6%

Oil — Brent −6.5% on Iran Talks Lifts Stocks; Amazon +5%, Oracle −6% on a $20 Billion Raise

Stocks win back part of Friday's sell-off as oil falls. Brent crude drops 6.5% to $106.01 after the US and Iran signaled openness to talks, and the S&P 500 rises 0.7% to 7,634.6, led by consumer stocks (+3.2%) and the equal-weight index rather than tech, which is flat. Amazon gains 5.4% on an upgrade. The AI news is about funding: Oracle falls 5.7% after offering $10 billion of new shares alongside $10 billion of bonds, and Marvell (−6.3%) and Lumentum (−11.2%) both fall on their $115 billion all-stock deal. Gold recovers 1.8% to 3,969.6, the 10-year yield eases to 4.91%, and the ISM factory survey beats at 55.5. Today's close grades Lilly, Alphabet, ServiceNow and Microsoft; Apple and Palantir report after the bell.

In this edition

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The Midday 10 Mon, Nov 2, 2026 ~60 seconds 12:30 ET

Oil falls 6.5% on hopes for US–Iran talks and stocks recover part of Friday's losses, led by consumer stocks and the average stock rather than tech, while Oracle's $20 billion raise and the Marvell–Lumentum deal keep the AI names down.

US midday, intraday quotes ~11:05 ET (delayed)

  1. The indices — a rebound led by the average stock
  2. Oil — Brent down 6.5% on US–Iran talks
  3. Bonds, gold and Bitcoin — the havens steady
  4. Sector and factor board — consumer stocks lead, energy and health care lag
  5. Marvell and Lumentum — a $115 billion deal, both shares fall
  6. Oracle — a $20 billion raise for the AI build-out
  7. Memory and storage — the Kioxia reason, and the morning gains reversed
  8. Chips — Nvidia up, AMD down before its report
  9. The windows — Lilly paid, Alphabet and ServiceNow sold, Amazon over its line
  10. After the bell — Apple and Palantir, then AMD and the midterms

The ten lines

  1. 1

    UP The indices — a rebound led by the average stock

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    The S&P 500 trades at 7,634.6, up 0.7% after Friday's 7,580.1 close, the Nasdaq Composite is up 0.9% at 25,676 and the Dow 1.0% at 52,277. The Dow fund DIA, at 522.18, is back above its 50-day average near 521.7. The other two are not: SPY, the S&P 500 fund, is at 761.13, 0.8% under its own near 767.5, and QQQ, the Nasdaq-100 fund, at 695.58, 4.1% under its line near 725.0. The average stock leads the index again: the equal-weight S&P 500 fund RSP is up 1.05% against 0.72% for SPY, and small caps (IWM) gain 1.15%. The VIX, the market's fear gauge, eases to 18.6 from 19.4. Abroad, the Korea fund EWY rises 2.8% and the China internet fund KWEB 3.9%.

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    DOWN Oil — Brent down 6.5% on US–Iran talks

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    Oil does most of the work today. Brent crude futures fall 6.5% to $106.01 a barrel from Friday's $113.43, and the oil funds USO and BNO lose 5.7% and 5.8%. CNBC ties the drop to diplomacy: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said over the weekend that President Trump has not decided on military action against Iran, and Iran's foreign minister said a deal is possible if Washington shows goodwill. Trump had said he would not attack before the midterms, so the market had been pricing the risk of an escalation after them, according to CNBC. Energy is the weakest sector, down 2.1% (XLE), with Exxon Mobil down 2.7%, ConocoPhillips 3.0% and Occidental 3.5%.

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    LEVEL Bonds, gold and Bitcoin — the havens steady

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    Gold futures recover 1.8% to 3,969.6, still under 4,000, after closing Friday at 3,898.9; the GLD fund gains 1.9%, silver (SLV) 3.1% and the gold miners (GDX) 3.4%. Bitcoin does not join in: at about 77,500 it is down 0.9% in 24 hours, still above the 76,100 bear-market line Galaxy Research uses, and Coinbase slips 2.0%. The 10-year Treasury yield is about 4.91%, from 4.93% on Friday, and TLT holds 81.75, above 81.50. The ISM factory survey came in at 55.5 for October, above the 54.5 expected and the tenth month of growth in a row; its prices index eased to 75.2 from 77.9 but stays high. High-yield bonds (HYG) are up 0.15%.

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