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27-09-2026
The article from 24/7 Wall St., titled “Why the Nasdaq Refuses to Break Even With Treasury Yields Above Five Percent” (published September 27, 2026), analyzes why the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 (tracked by the Invesco QQQ Trust) remains resilient even as Treasury yields surge past levels that typically pressure growth equities.
Key points from the report include:
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.18% and the 30-year reached 5.47%, with all maturities from 5 to 30 years sitting above 5.00%. Real yields (adjusted for inflation) also surged to 2.85%.
Under traditional valuation models, higher yields raise discount rates on distant cash flows, which should hit long-duration growth stocks the hardest. Yet, QQQ closed virtually flat (down only 0.01% to $741.10) while maintaining strong year-to-date gains.
The resilience is driven by extreme index concentration in a small group of balance-sheet-heavy megacap companiesmost notably NVIDIA (7.60%), Apple (6.67%), Micron (5.64%), Microsoft (4.35%), AMD (4.10%), and Amazon (4.02%).
Because these cash-rich giants generate more operational cash than needed to fund their business and heavy AI capital expenditures, higher capital costs hurt smaller competitors far more than them.
However, the article highlights this concentration as a major vulnerability: with nearly $490 billion heavily weighted in just a few names, any single earnings miss or guidance cut among the top holdings could trigger a sharp, fund-wide correction.
Ultimately, the article concludes that the deciding factor will be market breadth. If 10-year yields stay above 5% and earnings revisions turn lower, the index could crack; conversely, if bond yields ease while megacap free cash flows continue to compound, the heavy concentration will continue to shield the index.