MIDDAY
U.S. Markets
  • S&P 500+0.60%
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average+0.31%
  • Nasdaq Composite+1.34%

Growth names are carrying the session again: the Nasdaq's 1.34% midday gain is more than four times the Dow's move. Anyone underweight big tech is watching the afternoon rally happen without them.

Chamath is calling the June/July software washout the bottom, using Salesforce's raised FY27 guidance of $46.1B to $46.4B as proof the AI-agent fear trade overshot.

As I mentioned previously a month or so ago on @theallinpod, the bottom was in in SaaS in June/July. Their financial results keep delivering and now valuations will snap back in turn. Models and harnesses will need tight integration with systems of record to deliver the next https://t.co/EbEvLApG7q [Quoted @Benioff]: #1 Q2 in Salesforce history. $11.3B Revenue. +11% $33.5B cRPO growth. +14% $5.90 Non-GAAP EPS. +103% $15.2B TTM Free Cash Flow. $3.9B Agentforce + Data 360 ARR. 7.0B AWUs delivered all-time. Raising FY27 guidance to $46.1–$46.4B. 3.2B AWUs in Q2 (+97% q/q) 6x growth in MCP https://t.co/dpzVdedk6C
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Europe
  • 🇬🇧 FTSE 100-0.44%
  • 🇩🇪 DAX+0.24%
  • 🇫🇷 CAC 40-1.46%

Europe split apart on the close: Paris shed 1.46% while Frankfurt finished higher, so a single "European equities" bet paid differently by market today. London landed in between, 0.44% lower.

CRMSalesforce
Regular session
$249.31
+7.97%open $230.90

Salesforce is up 7.97% after its Q2 FY2027 earnings beat, a rare burst of conviction in a stock that has spent the year fighting doubts about AI eating into seat-based software. Follow-through this week decides whether it is a re-rating or a one-day pop.