February jobs data, Broadcom earnings, and AI fears abound: What to watch this week

The first two months of the year are already in the books. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) closed at 6,878.88 on Friday, logging a weekly loss of about 0.5%, while the benchmark index is hanging on to a roughly 0.5% gain for the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) shed about 1%, or roughly 520 points, on Friday and finished February up 1.9% for the year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.9% on Friday and has lost roughly 2.5% so far in 2026. A blowout earnings report from Nvidia (NVDA) on We ...