Wall Street Indexes Sit Flat Ahead of Nvidia's Earnings

US stock indexes held flat during the August 26 session as traders waited for Nvidia's upcoming earnings report before making bigger moves, according to Yahoo Finance. With Nvidia now central to broader market sentiment around AI spending, its results are seen as a signal for the rest of the tech sector. The muted trading reflects how much weight a single earnings report can carry when a stock has become a proxy for an entire investment theme. Elsewhere, individual stocks moved on their own news: Hinge Health shares hit an all-time high of $93.37, while Boston Scientific shares fell sharply, though the reasons behind that decline were not detailed in available reporting. The key unresolved question is whether Nvidia's results validate the scale of AI infrastructure spending that has driven index gains this year, or whether the report disappoints a market that has priced in continued acceleration.