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Weekly stock outlook: October 26–30, 2026

My base case is choppy trading with a cautious bias for AI-heavy stocks, rather than a clean market-wide rebound. Among the large-cap names below, I expect Apple to show the strongest relative resilience, Microsoft to be mixed, and Nvidia to have the widest swings.

What’s driving the outlook?

1. Investors are questioning the near-term returns on AI spending. On October 22, the Nasdaq fell 2.6% that day, while Nvidia fell 4.4% and Microsoft declined 2.2%.
2. Leadership is rotating rather than uniformly collapsing. Apple gained 1.23% on October 22, despite the technology selloff.
3. Financing costs remain a vulnerability. Higher borrowing costs make expensive AI infrastructure projects harder to justify without stronger earnings delivery.

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