New York, February 7, 2026, 18:08 EST — The session wrapped up with the market now closed.
The Charles Schwab Corporation’s stock climbed roughly 3% to finish Friday at $105.08, rebounding alongside the wider market after a turbulent period for risk assets. U.S. markets will stay shut over the weekend, reopening Monday.
Schwab co-chairman Walter W. Bettinger exercised stock options and offloaded 257,410 shares on Feb. 3 and 4, a regulatory filing revealed Thursday. The weighted-average sale price: just over $104, with most of the action routed through a family trust. Those moves hit the tape as the stock was trading up near its highs—a point that rarely escapes traders’ attention when momentum plays start to pile up. 1
Stocks came roaring back into the close. The S&P 500 jumped 1.97% Friday and the Dow topped 50,000 for its first-ever finish above the milestone. Treasury yields hardly budged, and traders stuck with bets on a Fed rate cut in June, according to Reuters. “You’re seeing a rebound in technology and some industrials and financials stocks,” Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth, told Reuters. 2
Schwab shares rallied, ending Friday about 1.3% shy of their Jan. 22 52-week high of $105.81. Trading volume came in at around 7.5 million shares, falling short of the 50-day average, according to MarketWatch data. On the session, Schwab outpaced both Morgan Stanley and BlackRock. 3
The “broadening” trend has turned into a trade itself, following a tech-led slump earlier this week. “What’s driven it recently has been the broadening that we have seen in the market,” said Chuck Carlson, chief executive at Horizon Investment Services, in a Reuters report on the Dow’s record-setting finish Friday. 4
Rates continue to drive Schwab’s narrative. The broker’s most recent quarterly update came Jan. 21: profit climbed, helped by a more than 25% jump in net interest revenue to $3.17 billion, according to Reuters. That figure reflects the difference between what Schwab earns on its assets and what it pays on liabilities. 5
Plenty on tap next week that could shake up yields. Wednesday brings the long-awaited U.S. January payrolls report, while January CPI inflation lands two days after, Reuters noted in its market preview. 6
The setup isn’t one-sided. Softer data sometimes stirs hopes for rate cuts and boosts trading, but it can just as easily knock stocks down and chill the pace of new cash landing in brokerage accounts.
Bonds aren’t just background noise here. Schwab leans heavily on revenue from client cash, so when yields jump, customers don’t waste much time moving into higher-yielding options like money-market funds. That shift can quickly become a drag on earnings.
Schwab is set to deliver its January monthly activity update on Feb. 13 before markets open, according to the investor relations calendar. In a recent interview, CEO Rick Wurster claimed “clients are more engaged in markets than they’ve ever been.” Now, investors want to see whether the numbers on accounts and cash activity actually back that up. 7
