Cisco and Applied Materials lead busy earnings week
- 169 companies with $2 billion-plus market value report earnings this week.
- Monday is the busiest day of the week with 69 companies reporting.
- The U.S. government releases October consumer price index data on Tuesday.
- Cisco and Applied Materials report earnings after the market closes on Thursday.
- Markets remain volatile following midterm election results and tech sector declines.
Investors face a busy week starting November 9, 2026, as 169 companies with market values of at least $2 billion report earnings. The week features nine major reports, led by Cisco Systems, Applied Materials, and CoreWeave.
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Monday marks busiest day for earnings
Monday, November 9, 2026, marks the busiest day of the week with 69 companies scheduled to report earnings. Ferguson and KKR report before the market opens. Constellation Energy also holds a morning earnings call.
The Trade Desk, Occidental Petroleum, Take-Two Interactive, and Skydance report after the market closes. Take-Two, the maker of Grand Theft Auto, reports ten days before the release of GTA VI. Rocket Lab and Hims & Hers also report on Monday.
RLX Technology reports earnings on Friday, November 13.
CPI report and Tuesday earnings
The U.S. government releases October consumer price index data on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. TransDigm reports earnings before the market opens on Tuesday.
Sea Limited and CoreWeave also report earnings on Tuesday. Rocket Lab, CoreWeave, and Nebius report their earnings throughout the week.
The S&P 500 rose 14.0% through October 7, 2026, compared to a 9.9% increase for the equal-weight index.
Veterans Day trading and Wednesday earnings
The New York Stock Exchange conducts normal trading hours on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has no data releases scheduled for that day.
Vylor reports earnings after the market close on Wednesday. Corteva and RUM Group also report earnings on Wednesday.
Thursday earnings for Cisco and Applied Materials
Cisco and Applied Materials report earnings after the market closes on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Nu Holdings and Nebius also report earnings on Thursday.
Market volatility follows midterm election results
Market volatility rose on Thursday, November 5, as investors reacted to Democratic victories in the November 3 midterm elections.
On that Thursday, the S&P 500 tech sector fell 7.3%, and the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index dropped over 12%. The Nasdaq fell 5.52% and the S&P 500 dropped 4.36% during the session. The Cboe Volatility Index reached a 7-month high on Thursday.
Investors worry that Democratic control of Congress and key governorships like Texas will hinder the construction of AI data centers.
Loh added, "You have got this regulatory, political party overhang, which I think is going to stay with us until we really get a sense of how significant of a slowdown we're thinking about". Regarding CoreWeave, Melson said, "If they do have a little bit more of a cautiously optimistic view in terms of being able to find ways to get projects across the finish line, that I think helps to kind of alleviate some of these concerns".
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.46% to 51,285.73, finishing the week below the 51,300 level. The Russell 2000 index increased 0.87% to 2,753.65. The Cboe Volatility Index dropped 9.55% to 25.49 on Friday.
The Nasdaq is up 5.75% year-to-date and down 10.75% over the past month, with a 52-week high of 27,599.8. The S&P 500 is up 7.76% year-to-date and down 5.45% over the past month, with a 52-week high of 7,818.9 and a 52-week low of 6,343.7. The US 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.86% from 4.84%. The Dollar Index increased 0.72% to 102.28.
Fed rate hike probability rises
The benchmark S&P 500 remains up over 7% for 2026.
Loh said, "If you get a hot number and then you start adding additional tightening because the inflationary environment looks like it's accelerating, that's just something else that investors would have to absorb".
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