Sunday, February 8, 2026

🔮 SPY & SPX — Market-Moving Headlines Week of Feb 9–13, 2026

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🌍 Market-Moving Themes

🧠 AI Capex Anxiety Returns
Meta spending leak revives fears that AI margins will lag spending, reopening the hardware vs platform divide

⚙️ Pick-and-Shovel AI Trade
Rising AI budgets continue to funnel into chipmakers and infrastructure suppliers rather than end platforms

📉 Crypto Trust Shock
Weekend Bitcoin exchange glitch damages confidence and raises volatility risk across crypto-linked equities

📊 Data Delay Volatility
Delayed labor data creates a compressed macro week with multiple releases colliding midweek

🛍️ Consumer Stress Test
Retail sales, confidence, and CPI converge to define whether spending is holding up or cracking

📊 Key U.S. Economic Data & Events Feb 9–13 ET

Monday Feb 9

  • 10:50 AM Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic speaks
  • 1:30 PM Fed Governor Christopher Waller speaks
  • 2:30 PM Fed Governor Stephen Miran speaks
  • 5:00 PM Fed Governor Stephen Miran podcast interview

Tuesday Feb 10

  • 6:00 AM NFIB optimism index Jan: 99.5
  • 8:30 AM Employment cost index Q4: 0.8%
  • 8:30 AM Import price index Dec delayed: -0.1%
  • 8:30 AM U.S. retail sales Dec delayed: 0.5%
  • 8:30 AM Retail sales ex autos Dec: 0.3%
  • 10:00 AM Business inventories Nov delayed: 0.2%
  • 12:00 PM Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack speaks
  • 1:00 PM Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan speaks

Wednesday Feb 11

  • 8:30 AM U.S. employment report Jan: 55,000
  • 8:30 AM U.S. unemployment rate Jan: 4.4%
  • 8:30 AM U.S. hourly wages Jan: 0.3%
  • 8:30 AM Hourly wages YoY: 3.7%
  • 10:10 AM Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid speaks
  • 2:00 PM Monthly U.S. federal budget: -50.0B

Thursday Feb 12

  • 8:30 AM Initial jobless claims Feb 7: 222,000
  • 10:00 AM Existing home sales Jan: 4.15M
  • 7:05 PM Fed Governor Stephen Miran speaks

Friday Feb 13 — CPI DAY

  • 8:30 AM Consumer price index Jan: 0.3%
  • 8:30 AM CPI YoY: 2.5%
  • 8:30 AM Core CPI Jan: 0.3%
  • 8:30 AM Core CPI YoY: 2.5%

⚠️ For informational purposes only. Not financial advice.

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