Pharmaceuticals intraday October 15, 2026 \u00b7 Yahoo Finance <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, consumer staples (XLP<\/a>) continues its blistering October run, up over 2% today and nearly 9% for the month \u2014 edging out energy (XLE<\/a>) to lead all large-cap sectors.<\/p>\n Food and beverage companies like Coca-Cola (KO<\/a>), PepsiCo (PEP<\/a>), Hershey (HSY<\/a>), General Mills (GIS<\/a>), and Kraft Heinz (KHC<\/a>) are all strongly green.<\/p>\n Tech (XLK<\/a>) is a different story, heading for a a fourth straight loss and off nearly 5% in October. The PHLX Semiconducor Index (^SOX<\/a>) is on track for an eight straigth down day \u2014 the longest such streak since Ocober 2008 in the wake of the Lehman Bros. failure.<\/p>\n Intel (INTC<\/a>), AMD (AMD<\/a>), and Taiwan Semi are leading the semis plunge, the latter disappointing investors with Q3 earnings<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM<\/a>) is facing its biggest loss in a month, pointing to a fourth straight drop, as the rout in memory chip stocks<\/a> deepens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive sectors are dominating early trading, as chip stocks drag down tech. Large-cap health care (XLV) gapped up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5097,28,122,101,939,2993,2994,32455,2995,932,32456,20112,147,9323,1170,1666,6480,2996,2997,923,19533,3733,32457],"class_list":["post-883342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-track-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Food & beverage companies \u2014 October 15, 2026 \u00b7 Yahoo Finance <\/p>\n