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Pre-Market Brief | Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Research Desk · September 9, 2026

The Setup

Canada's counter-tariffs went live yesterday. The Dow lost 628 points, the Nasdaq barely flinched, and Ottawa's target list explains most of the gap.

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Where The Tape Sits

The Dow closed at 52,786.07, down 628.18 points or 1.18 percent. That is a second straight decline after Friday's 272-point loss.

The S&P 500 finished at 7,673.52, off 0.58 percent. The Nasdaq ended at 26,421.41, down only 0.32 percent.

Brent crude settled near $97.92 and traded toward $99 after the close. West Texas Intermediate has now advanced six sessions in a row.

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Macro Pulse

Thin calendar today. Mortgage applications at 7 AM ET, a 10-year Treasury auction at 1 PM ET, oil inventories at 4:30 PM ET.

Apple holds its annual iPhone event during the session. Electronics sit on Ottawa's tariff list, which makes the timing awkward.

The real events come next. Producer prices Thursday, consumer prices Friday, the Fed decision next week. The ten-year Treasury sits near 4.8 percent with roughly 60 percent odds of a hike priced in.

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Stock Highlight: Caterpillar

Ottawa's counter-tariffs cover roughly $27.6 billion of American goods at rates from 15 to 50 percent, concentrated in steel and aluminum, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. Caterpillar sells into two of those categories.

It has guided to about $2.6 billion of tariff cost this year, up from the $1.8 billion it absorbed last year. Operating profit fell nearly 20 percent last quarter.

Picture a contractor who signs a fixed-price job in January and buys his steel in June. The contract cannot move. The steel price can. With customers delaying big equipment purchases, there is nobody to hand the bill to.

The offset is real. Management points to rising orders for prime power generators, the units data centers buy to run around the clock. One business line pays the tariff, another collects the AI cheque.

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Tickers To Watch

CAT: About $2.6 billion of tariff cost guided for this year. Ag and construction equipment are named on Ottawa's list.
DE: Flagged higher steel costs. Construction and forestry profit roughly halved from a year ago.
NUE: American steel and aluminum shipped into Canada now faces the top 50 percent rate.
AAPL: iPhone event today, with electronics on the tariff list.
ORCL: Up 2.36 percent yesterday. Reports Thursday after the bell.
CRM: Off about 4 percent, with ServiceNow down about 5, on fears OpenAI's newest model eats into specialized software.

Bottom Line

The gap between the Dow and the Nasdaq yesterday was mechanics, not sentiment. Tariffs tax things that cross a border on a truck. They do not tax server capacity.

If you are drawing income within five years, that is worth a look today. The dividend industrials many retirement sleeves lean on are the names carrying this bill, and Thursday's producer price report is where input costs surface first. Knowing your exposure before the print beats reacting to it after.

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