{"id":5816,"date":"2026-09-28T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:17:36","slug":"dow-slides-330-pts-as-oil-and-yields-climb-nvidia-jumps-on-record-150b-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=5816","title":{"rendered":"Dow slides 330 pts as oil and yields climb, Nvidia jumps on record $150B buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 336 points to 51,492.19 in early trading on Monday as higher oil prices and Treasury yields pressured stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia bucked the weakness, <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/nvidia-stock-rises-3-after-record-150-billion-buyback-authorization\/\">jumping more than 3%<\/a> after announcing the largest increase to a share buyback authorization on record.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 slipped 0.50% to 7,704.53, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.51% to 26,931.86.<\/p>\n<p>The small-cap Russell 2000 lost 0.79%, and the VIX volatility index rose 8.68% to 16.16.<\/p>\n<p>The MSCI World index fell 0.45%, and Canada&#8217;s S&amp;P\/TSX dropped 1.10%.<\/p>\n<p>The declines followed Friday&#8217;s rally, when the Dow gained 479 points as oil eased and yields cooled.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oil and yields set the tone<\/h2>\n<p>Oil jumped after President Donald Trump said he <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/oil-jumps-over-4-as-trump-rejects-irans-hormuz-proposal\/\">rejected<\/a> Iran&#8217;s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I rejected their deal,&#8221; Trump told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude traded at $106.79 a barrel, up more than 2%, while West Texas Intermediate rose about 2% to $94.40.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year Treasury yield traded above 5.2% and the 30-year above 5.5%, near multiyear highs.<\/p>\n<p>Investors also face a busy week of inflation and jobs data that could shape expectations for another Fed rate hike in October.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nvidia gains on record buyback<\/h2>\n<p>Nvidia shares rose 3.46% to $232.85.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its board authorized an additional $150 billion under its existing repurchase program, bringing the total remaining authorization to $235 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia expects to execute the program through fiscal 2028 and called the increase the largest in history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our cash generation gives us the capacity to invest in the technologies that advance this transformation and return capital to shareholders,&#8221; CEO Jensen Huang said.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia also <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/nvidia-launches-ai-safety-platform-to-stop-agents-before-they-escape-limits\/\">launched<\/a> OpenShell and Sentry on Monday, tools designed to keep AI agents within set limits.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MongoDB plunges as CEO heads to Meta<\/h2>\n<p>MongoDB was among the day&#8217;s biggest decliners, falling 25.63% to $305.26.<\/p>\n<p>The company said CEO Chirantan &#8220;CJ&#8221; Desai stepped down effective immediately to pursue a senior role at Meta Platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Dev Ittycheria, who led MongoDB from 2014 to 2025, returns as interim CEO, and the board has hired a search firm for a permanent successor.<\/p>\n<p>MongoDB reaffirmed its guidance for the third quarter and full fiscal 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Its investor day is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Desai will serve as chief enterprise platform officer, overseeing a new AI offering for business customers called Meta Enterprise Platform.<\/p>\n<p>Meta shares fell 3.28% to $727.00.<\/p>\n<p>The slide followed an almost 13% gain last week on announcements around its Muse AI agent, as AI-linked stocks sold off more broadly.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI stocks slide as OpenAI pauses training<\/h2>\n<p>AI-linked shares were lower across the board.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft fell 2.37% to $503.94, Intel dropped 3.18% to $119.09, Micron slid 1.55% to $1,065.55, and AMD eased 1.52% to $621.06.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said it paused training of its latest models after agents searching US government websites acted in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<p>It said it will resume only when it is confident additional safeguards are in place.<\/p>\n<p>Investors will watch MongoDB&#8217;s investor day on Tuesday and this week&#8217;s inflation and labor market data for clues on how the Fed will respond to elevated energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/dow-slides-330-pts-as-oil-and-yields-climb-but-nvidia-jumps-on-record-150b-buyback\/\">Dow slides 330 pts as oil and yields climb, Nvidia jumps on record $150B buyback<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\">Invezz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 336 points to 51,492.19 in early trading on Monday as higher oil prices and Treasury yields pressured stocks.Nvidia bucked the weakness, jumping more than 3% after announcing the largest increase to a share buyback authorization on record.The S&amp;P 500 slipped 0.50% to 7,704.53, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.51%&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}