Daily #129 stock chart answers — November 10, 2026

With Bear Stearns freshly rescued and oil climbing toward record highs, traders spent the spring of 2008 wondering whether squeezed shoppers would still pay up for premium trainers. Nike shrugged off the consumer gloom as the build-up to the Beijing Olympics gathered pace, and buyers kept pressing their advantage into the summer.

With the global chip shortage stalling car factories in early 2021, foundries were racing to expand capacity and needed KLA's inspection gear to check every silicon wafer on the line. Even a late-winter wobble in tech stocks could not keep buyers away for long.

Traders spent the summer of 2015 braced for the Federal Reserve's first interest-rate rise in nearly a decade, a textbook headwind for dividend-paying utilities like Xcel Energy, yet a late-August market wobble sent money straight back into defensive power companies. The rally stalled here as the wider market shook, though Xcel was already beginning the decade-long pivot from coal to wind farms that would reshape the business.

Big Pharma spent late 2005 deeply out of favour, weighed down by painkiller safety scares and looming patent expiries on Pfizer's biggest blockbuster drugs. Bargain hunters finally stepped in off the lows, and the December relief bounce held.

With Europe scrambling for American liquefied natural gas to replace Russian supply and investors hiding in utilities during the 2022 bear market, Sempra spent the summer climbing while the wider market struggled. By late September, surging bond yields finally caught up with dividend shares and broke the safe-haven trade.