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Market Action For Last Week
(Fri Feb 13, 2026 close → Fri Feb 20, 2026 close)
- SPY: 681.75 → 689.59 = +7.84 pts (+1.15%)
- QQQ: 601.92 → 608.76 = +6.84 pts (+1.14%)
- IWM: 262.96 → 264.50 = +1.54 pts (+0.59%)
What this actually says: despite whatever mid-week chop you may have noticed, all three finished the week higher, with SPY and QQQ leading and small caps (IWM) lagging.
Upcoming Major Economic Reports and Potential Market Moving Events
(Week of Feb 23–27, 2026)
Mon (Feb 23)
- Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index
- Fed speaker: Governor Christopher Waller (Economic Outlook)
Tue (Feb 24)
- Consumer Confidence (Conference Board) (10:00 a.m. ET)
- S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index
- Fed speakers: Governor Lisa Cook + Governor Waller (tech/payments)
Wed (Feb 25)
- Market moving focus likely = big earnings after the close (see below)
Thu (Feb 26)
- Initial Jobless Claims
- Fed testimony: Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman (Senate Banking)
Fri (Feb 27)
- Fed statistical release: G.20 Finance Companies
Upcoming Major Stock Earnings Reports
(Major names; times = expected premarket/postmarket)
Tue (Feb 24)
- Home Depot (HD) — Premarket / before market open
Wed (Feb 25)
- Lowe’s (LOW) — Premarket / before market open
- NVIDIA (NVDA) — Postmarket / after market close
- Salesforce (CRM) — Postmarket / after market close
- Zoom (ZM) — Postmarket / after market close
(And yes — this week is exactly why markets can feel weak intraday but still finish green: NVDA + major software + big retailers can swing index direction fast.)
30-day stance: Neutral (lean bullish)
The tape was positive last week across SPY/QQQ/IWM, so the trend bias is still constructive. But the next week has a major “binary” catalyst cluster (especially NVDA after the close Wednesday, plus Fed testimony Thursday). That combination raises the odds of sharp two-way moves and makes it hard to be aggressively bullish until the market digests those events.