United States
Fri Oct 9 · 311 advancers / 177 decliners · 488 stocks with data · sector moves via SPDR ETFs
~5 min read
TL;DR — Wall Street closed higher into earnings season, a SpaceX spectrum deal redrew the wireless map, and Canada's weak jobs print sent the TSX sharply higher.
The opening paragraph, up front — the full story follows below.
Wall Street closed higher into earnings season, a SpaceX spectrum deal redrew the wireless map, and Canada's weak jobs print sent the TSX sharply higher.
Friday, October 9 closes and settles, except the individually labeled Saturday USDCAD quote.
Friday's market-moving developments and the overnight weekend handoff, with dates and source trails preserved.
Friday, October 9 regular-session rankings versus Thursday, October 8. Five-session sparklines use closes from October 5–9.
Friday, October 9 regular session versus Thursday, October 8 · 488 common stocks with data after the $10M 50-day average daily dollar-volume filter.
Friday, October 9 regular session versus Thursday, October 8 · TSX Composite proxy: top 240 TSX common stocks by 50-day average daily dollar volume; 211 names with data after the C$2M filter. The authoritative Composite member list is not publicly enumerable.
Direction beneath the headline indices at the Friday, October 9 regular-session close.
Fri Oct 9 · 311 advancers / 177 decliners · 488 stocks with data · sector moves via SPDR ETFs
Fri Oct 9 · 158 advancers / 52 decliners / 1 unchanged · 211-stock TSX proxy · equal-weight sector averages
Top 50 by absolute one-day move at the Friday, October 9 close. Tile area follows the square root of market cap; color intensity follows Friday volume versus the 50-day average where supplied.
Friday, October 9 · S&P 500 + Nasdaq-100 universe. Volume ratios are supplied for ranks 1–10; ranks 11–50 remain neutral rather than inferred.
Friday, October 9 · TSX Composite proxy. Volume ratios are supplied for ranks 1–10; ranks 11–50 remain neutral. PLTR.TO and AMZN.TO use the parent's global market cap for sizing.
Read-throughs anchored to Friday, October 9 closes and the separately labeled Saturday FX quote.
At Friday's close, 311 U.S. names advanced against 177 decliners while the S&P 500 gained 0.59%. Real Estate (+1.86%) and Health Care (+1.58%) led, but Communication Services fell 1.51% as SpaceX's spectrum deal punished carriers and re-rated tower owners.
The dispersion was extreme: Crown Castle rose 15.60%, while T-Mobile fell 13.27%. That was a sector-structure reset, not a broad risk-off session.
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