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Market Moment
Glen Eagle®: America’s Women-Owned Trading Desk®
10/26/2026
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Halloween is getting more expensive for families. Candy and gum prices rose 8.1% over the past year, while Halloween chocolate prices jumped 15.5% to an average of $5.67 per package. 1
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Since 1930, the S&P 500 averaged a 15% gain in the year after midterms when the president was Republican and Congress was Democratic. The historic return was even higher (23%) when Congress was split between the two parties. *2
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Family health insurance plan costs rose 5% to over $28,000 in 2026. Employers are increasingly passing more of those costs on to workers, whose premium contributions from wages rose even faster, by 9% to $7,471. 3
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Nvidia and Micron alone accounted for 34% of the S&P 500’s expected third-quarter earnings growth. *4
- NBC News – “To counteract a spooky economy, America prepares to spend on Halloween candy”
- Barron’s – “What a Democratic Congress Would Mean for Wall Street”
- WSJ – “Higher Deductibles, Bigger Premiums: Rising Healthcare Costs Hit Employees”
- WSJ – “Two AI Chipmakers Make Up 34% of America’s Earnings Boom”
*Past performance is not indicative of future performance
Economic Calendar
Monday:
No events scheduled
Tuesday:
Durable Goods (Sep), S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Home Price Index (Aug), New Home Sales (Sep), Consumer Confidence (Oct), FOMC Meeting
Wednesday:
Advance Goods Trade Balance (Sep), Wholesale Inventories (Sep), Retail Inventories (Sep), Fed Interest Rate Decision
Thursday:
Advance GDP (Q3), Weekly Jobless Claims (Oct 24), Personal Income (Sep), Consumer Spending (Sep), PCE Inflation (Sep), Core PCE Inflation (Sep)
Friday:
Employment Cost Index (Q3), Chicago PMI (Oct)
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US Markets*
S&P 7,696.73 +0.96%
DOW 52,422.09 +0.40%
NASDAQ 26,296.83
+1.30%
World Markets*
FTSE 10,764.06
+0.69%
NIKKEI 61,189.65 -0.80%
HANG SENG 23,211.81 +0.51%
*values as of 11:25am EST 10/26/2026
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Treasuries*
2 YR 4.712%
10YR 4.986%
30 YR 5.306%
Cryptocurrencies*
BTC-USD
80,543.58
+0.02%
ETH.CM
2,331.84
-0.40%
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Currencies*
Euro $1.1178
Pound $0.7493
Yen $157.5640
Commodities*
Gold 4,036.40
+0.71%
WTI Crude 101.28
-1.93%
Silver 54.28
+0.60%
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Upcoming Earnings Calls
Monday - VZ, WELL, CDNS, NUE, PSA
Tuesday - V, KO, HSBC, NVS, BA
Wednesday - GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT, GEV, KLAC
Thursday - AMZN, LLY, MA, INTC, MRK
Friday - XOM, ABBV, CVX, AZN, BP
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This desk commentary is for informational purposes only
Carol Ann Fernandez
Rob Michel
Grier Vacek
Glen Eagle Wealth, LLC
4422C Route 27
PO Box 399
Kingston, NJ 08528
(609) 631-8231
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