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2026-10-10 UTC
 
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Wall Street Indexes Sit Flat Ahead of Nvidia's Earnings

Investors held positions steady heading into the report, leaving major benchmarks little changed for the August 26 session.

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Executive takeaway

Major US stock indexes closed roughly flat on August 26 as investors avoided large bets before Nvidia's earnings release.

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Nvidia Outpaces Flat Indexes Before Earnings. While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq barely moved on August 26, Nvidia's own price path shows why traders were holding their breath for its earnings — its swings have far outstripped the broader market this year.

Nvidia Outpaces Flat Indexes Before Earnings

While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq barely moved on August 26, Nvidia's own price path shows why traders were holding their breath for its earnings — its swings have far outstripped the broader market this year.

Live price data for NVDA, ^GSPC, and ^IXIC; context from Yahoo Finance's 'Market Indexes Hold Flat as Wall Street Waits on Nvidia'.

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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.
What would change this view

If Nvidia's earnings report, once released, shows data center revenue growth below Wall Street's consensus estimate, the flat pre-earnings positioning described here would prove to have understated investor caution.

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