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Cloudflare 3Q26: Trading Gross Margin for Market Share—Is the Math Worth It?
Cloudflare ( $Cloudflare, Inc.(NET)$ ) just delivered a blockbuster quarter. Revenue hit $782.5 million (+39% YoY), the highest growth rate in nearly four years, while non-GAAP operating margin hit a record 17.5%. More importantly, management guided to GAAP profitability a quarter early in Q4. Yet, this is not an "AI compute" fairytale. Strip away the headline numbers, and you find a highly disciplined business model executing a deliberate financial trade-off: using high-margin core security to fund low-margin Workers expansion, while leveraging its "Isolate" architecture to relentlessly drive down unit costs. However, the 57% FCF conversion rate exposes its true nature as a heavy network infrastructure play, and AI (Act IV) remains a call option,
December Rate Hike Odds Near 80%! CPI Tomorrow — Is Wall Street Facing Its Next Big Test?
Just as Wall Street was recovering from last week's dramatic selloff, another major market catalyst emerged. The latest U.S. jobs report came in much stronger than expected, pushing market expectations for a December Federal Reserve rate hike sharply higher. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in October, compared with economists' expectations of approximately 65,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, while average hourly earnings increased 0.4% month over month. Following the report, traders raised their expectations for a December rate hike. By November 9, market-implied odds of a 25-basis-point increase had reached approximately 80%. And the next major test is just around the corner. The U.S. October CPI report will be released on November
Trump Reveals DOJ Issued Midnight Jail Warning to Unnamed Tech CEO
Late at night, inside Muthu boy’s noisy prata stall, three tech titans sit slumped over a corner table: Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Dario Amodei. Open bottles of beer clutter the table alongside half-eaten roti prata. Tears stream down all three of their faces. Muthu boy walks up with a fresh basket of hot prata, looks at them in shock, and asks, "Aiyoh, boss! What happened to all of you?" Jensen Huang wipes his eyes, takes a heavy sip of beer, and sighs, "I might be the one heading straight to jail... Turns out I was dating a spy, and now my wife and daughter won't even look at me." Dario Amodei and Elon Musk just bury their heads in their hands and keep sobbing. What's Really Happening Behind the Drama? The internet is currently in a tailspin following President Donald
The AI Power Race Is Heating Up — Why Constellation Energy Deserves Attention
When investors discuss the AI boom, Nvidia, Microsoft and other technology giants usually dominate the conversation. But there is another part of the AI supply chain that deserves attention: electricity. AI data centres require enormous amounts of reliable power. As computing capacity expands, electricity demand is becoming an increasingly important issue for technology companies. This puts Constellation Energy (NASDAQ: CEG) in an interesting position. 1. Why Constellation Energy matters to the AI boom Constellation Energy is one of America’s largest electricity producers and operates a substantial nuclear power fleet. Nuclear energy has an important advantage for data centres: it can provide reliable, around-the-clock electricity without the intermittency associated with wind and solar ge
My Pick: C. Trade Sideways (-1% to +1%) I expect the Nasdaq to trade sideways this week, with volatility remaining elevated. The market faces a tug-of-war between economic resilience and inflation risks. Stronger employment suggests the US economy remains healthy, but it could also give the Fed less reason to cut rates, keeping pressure on growth stocks. Tuesday's CPI report will be the biggest catalyst. Cooling inflation could push Treasury yields lower and support tech stocks. However, hotter inflation could further pressure elevated AI valuations. More importantly, investors need evidence that massive AI capital expenditure can translate into sustainable earnings and free cash flow. My strategy is to avoid chasing a relief rally and watch Treasury yields and semiconductor performance. P
AMD +8%, Apple Under Pressure: How 10 Top Earnings Signal the Current Market?
Hey Tigers! 🐯 AMD delivered a strong AI-demand signal. Apple warned about margin pressure. Qualcomm’s smartphone weakness overshadowed its data-center ambitions. And Arm showed that even record revenue can leave investors disappointed. The broader market remained unsettled: the $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ rebounded 1.1% on November 6, but finished the week down 3.4%. The $S&P 500(.SPX)$ lost 2.7% for the week. My take: Demand, profitability and valuation are being tested separately. Strong AI sales can coexist with supply constraints, rising input costs and a falling market. Timing matters: $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ , $Qualcomm(
[Events] CPI & PPI This Week: Nasdaq Rally or Selloff?
Wall Street is coming off a turbulent week, and another major test lies ahead. Last week, investors digested two significant developments: the U.S. midterm elections and a stronger-than-expected jobs report. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, while the U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in October, with the unemployment rate holding at 4.1%. The stronger jobs data highlighted the resilience of the U.S. economy, but it also raised questions about the Federal Reserve's next move. If the labor market remains strong, will the Fed have less reason to cut interest rates? Meanwhile, tech stocks remained under pressure. Nvidia, AMD and Meta were caught in the selloff as investors grew increasingly concerned about stretched valuations, rising AI spending and whether those investments
AI Power Infrastructure – The Real Bottleneck Game
PWR and ETN are the purest picks-and-shovels plays on the biggest structural force in U.S. electricity right now: Exploding power demand from AI data centers + the multi-decade grid rebuild. Here’s the clear-eyed view after both just reported. $Quanta(PWR)$ $Eaton Corp PLC(ETN)$ 1. Quanta Services (PWR) – Orders Are Not the Problem Anymore The new constraint Backlog hit $63.7 billion (up ~$10 billion in one quarter). Remaining performance obligations: $41.8 billion. Company added ~26,000 people this year. Management’s blunt message: labor is no longer the bottleneck. Transformers, conductors, poles, and switchgear are. When a contractor with $63 billion of work is forced to start manufac
I would put AMAT and URI at the top of my watchlist, but for very different reasons. For earnings growth, $Applied Materials (AMAT)$ stands out. Analysts expect Q4 EPS of $4.06, compared with $2.17 a year ago, representing approximately 87% YoY growth. This reflects strong demand for advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. However, I would pay close attention to forward guidance and order momentum rather than simply celebrating an EPS beat. For dividends, my pick is $United Rentals (URI)$. Its upcoming November 10 ex-dividend date offers $1.97 per share. More importantly, its payout ratio is only around 17.3%, suggesting room for dividend sustainability. Its average analyst price target is approximately $1,293, implying 22.5% upside from its November 6 closing price. My strategy:
Jensen Huang's Affair Shakes Nvidia. Micron, Tesla and SpaceX Are at a Crossroads. My Four Stocks to Watch This Week.
$NVIDIA(NVDA)$ $Micron Technology(MU)$ $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ $SpaceX(SPCX)$ Wall Street is about to face a very unusual trading week. Just when investors thought the worst of the AI selloff might be behind us, Nvidia has another problem. And this time? IT ISN'T ABOUT AI DEMAND. It's about leadership. Nvidia closed Friday at: $186.64. But overnight trading indicated another decline of approximately: 4%. Meanwhile, Friday's recovery showed: MU: +5.12% TSLA: +4.23% SPCX: +8.62% So are we entering another round of AI selling? Or will investors separate the companies with real demand from
Why Did SReits Go Up Recently While Singapore Banks Dip?
🌟🌟🌟The stock market constantly moves money from one sector to another. Recently Singapore's Big 3 local banks DBS, OCBC and UOB saw their share prices dip. This happened because investors were worried about slower global growth and changing trade rules, which might cool down bank profits. At the same time, investors moved their money into Singapore Real Estate Investment Trusts (SReits). Reits are companies that own properties like malls, offices, industrial buildings and even hospitals. For the past few years, high interest rates made borrowing expensive for REITs, which hurt their share prices. Now, interest rates are starting to flatten out or drop. Because lower interest rates mean smaller debt bills for landlords, investors are rushing back to REITs
🎁Weekly EPS Growth & Dividend Leaders: CSCO, AMAT, MUFG, PBR, MFG and more
😀Hi Tigers, As the Q3 earnings season unfolds, we’re taking a closer look at potential outperformers from two key angles: EPS expectations and dividend performance. In the first part, we highlight the top 20 stocks by market capitalization with stronger EPS estimates ahead of their earnings, scheduled between November 9 and November 13. 🎁Weekly Higher EPS Estimates: CSCO, AMAT, MUFG, PBR, MFG & More 1. Why EPS Matters? Earnings per share(EPS) refer to the income per share brought to investors/shareholders in the open market. EPS is calculated as a company's profit divided by the outstanding shares of its common stock. The resulting number serves as an indicator of a company's profitability. Investors like companies with high profitability, and the market always rewards those earnings r
Musk Put $500 Billion on SpaceX by 2027 — Two Dates Have to Land First
Elon Musk told the Baron Investment Conference in New York on November 6 that SpaceX's annualized recurring revenue will "very likely" clear $500 billion by December 2027 — "not a promise, just my best guess," and $1 trillion is not impossible [S: Cailian Press, 7 Nov 2026]. The market's first reaction came Friday: $SpaceX(SPCX)$ closed at $134.27, up 8.62%, still below the $135 IPO price from its June listing — the largest IPO in history at roughly $86 billion raised [S: Cailian Press, 7 Nov 2026]. The gap is enormous: Q3 2026 revenue of roughly $14.6 billion annualizes to only about $58.4 billion [S: Tencent News / Fusion Fund interview, 9 Nov 2026]. This piece answers one question: what has to actually happen before December 11 for that gap to
Will Nvidia Crash or Fly? Internet Sleuths Dig Up Wild Jensen Theories
Is Nvidia about to crash today, or is it getting ready to take off? The stock price tumbled over 4% in reaction to the news that Nvidia’s board is investigating an extramarital affair involving CEO Jensen Huang and his contacts with a woman linked to foreign intelligence. While the board expressed confidence in the current leadership, the investigation and the potential intersection with national security concerns create significant uncertainty, which markets generally dislike. Starting this afternoon, the internet instantly turned into a massive detective scene. Keyboard sleuths everywhere have been digging up every single photo and video of Jensen Huang from recent years, analyzing them frame by frame. The theories range from extramarital affairs and honey traps to US-China national sec
5. Earnings Radar and teaching case - CISCO (09Nov2026)
5. The Earnings Radar Figure 2 — Your Earnings Whispers board for the week of 9 Nov 2026. Image is low-resolution; swap in a full-size capture before publish. Monday opens the week with old-economy ballast and new-economy side bets: Barrick and Occidental on commodities, Constellation Energy and NRG on the power-hungry grid theme, monday.com on software, and Hims & Hers, AST SpaceMobile and Plug Power after the close — the last three being the kind of story stocks an audit market punishes first. Tuesday is the AI complex’s first testimony. Before the open: Sea and onsemi. After the close: CoreWeave — consensus is a loss of about US$1.17 a share — whose comments on Anthropic and NVIDIA demand will likely set the tone for the whole AI trade this week, with Rigetti and D-Wave adding the q
Anthropic's $3.4 Billion Queue-Jump Puts Caterpillar's Backlog at the Center of AI
The deal: an AI lab bought a two-year-old queue ticket On Sunday, November 8, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic, the developer of Claude, agreed to pay about $3.4 billion to take over commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty gas generators from OnePWR Solutions, a San Antonio, Texas-based equipment supplier. It is, per the FT, the largest known single power-equipment purchase by an AI lab. The structure is the interesting part. Anthropic did not buy a power plant, sign a power purchase agreement, or acquire OnePWR — no employees transferred. What it bought was a purchase order: OnePWR had ordered those generators from Caterpillar roughly two years ago, before equipment prices surged, and could not secure the financing to close. Piper Sandler, which advised OnePWR, confirmed a
Midterm Dynamics, Tech Valuation Recalibration, and Employment Surprises Drag U.S. Stocks Sharply Lower
U.S. stock markets finished the week of November 2–6, 2026, sharply lower after a volatile ride driven by the U.S. congressional midterm elections, a massive artificial intelligence (AI) and chip stock sell-off, and a stronger-than-expected October jobs report. In this article, we would like to share our comprehensive Analysis of the Volatile Trading Week of November 2–6, 2026. 1. Weekly Index Performance The U.S. equity benchmarks sustained notable losses for the week ending November 6, 2026. Tech-heavy indices recorded the deepest drawdowns, while blue-chip industrial indices demonstrated comparative stability despite high intra-week volatility. 2. Key Week-Day Breakdown A daily timeline reveals how shifting narrative catalysts—from energy sell-offs and election projections to semiconduc
🐶 Monday Market Morning: Futures Are Flat, But All Eyes Are on Interest Rates! Can the Fed Move Wall Street This Week? me on Tiger Trade!
🐶 Good morning, everyone! Monday, 9 November 2026. A new trading week begins, and the US futures market is looking relatively flat this morning. There is no major directional conviction just yet. Bulls are waiting for another reason to push prices higher, while bears are looking for signs that inflation and interest rates could remain a problem. For Options Puppy, this is exactly the kind of market where I prefer to slow down, observe and collect option premiums rather than chase every green or red candle. This week, my biggest focus is not simply whether the Nasdaq or S&P 500 goes up or down. It is what the Federal Reserve thinks about inflation, economic growth and the future direction of interest rates. I have four calendar entries worth watching today: * Monthly Wholesale Trade. *
Cloudflare 3Q26: Trading Gross Margin for Market Share—Is the Math Worth It?
Cloudflare ( $Cloudflare, Inc.(NET)$ ) just delivered a blockbuster quarter. Revenue hit $782.5 million (+39% YoY), the highest growth rate in nearly four years, while non-GAAP operating margin hit a record 17.5%. More importantly, management guided to GAAP profitability a quarter early in Q4. Yet, this is not an "AI compute" fairytale. Strip away the headline numbers, and you find a highly disciplined business model executing a deliberate financial trade-off: using high-margin core security to fund low-margin Workers expansion, while leveraging its "Isolate" architecture to relentlessly drive down unit costs. However, the 57% FCF conversion rate exposes its true nature as a heavy network infrastructure play, and AI (Act IV) remains a call option,
December Rate Hike Odds Near 80%! CPI Tomorrow — Is Wall Street Facing Its Next Big Test?
Just as Wall Street was recovering from last week's dramatic selloff, another major market catalyst emerged. The latest U.S. jobs report came in much stronger than expected, pushing market expectations for a December Federal Reserve rate hike sharply higher. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in October, compared with economists' expectations of approximately 65,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, while average hourly earnings increased 0.4% month over month. Following the report, traders raised their expectations for a December rate hike. By November 9, market-implied odds of a 25-basis-point increase had reached approximately 80%. And the next major test is just around the corner. The U.S. October CPI report will be released on November
AMD +8%, Apple Under Pressure: How 10 Top Earnings Signal the Current Market?
Hey Tigers! 🐯 AMD delivered a strong AI-demand signal. Apple warned about margin pressure. Qualcomm’s smartphone weakness overshadowed its data-center ambitions. And Arm showed that even record revenue can leave investors disappointed. The broader market remained unsettled: the $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ rebounded 1.1% on November 6, but finished the week down 3.4%. The $S&P 500(.SPX)$ lost 2.7% for the week. My take: Demand, profitability and valuation are being tested separately. Strong AI sales can coexist with supply constraints, rising input costs and a falling market. Timing matters: $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ , $Qualcomm(
The AI Power Race Is Heating Up — Why Constellation Energy Deserves Attention
When investors discuss the AI boom, Nvidia, Microsoft and other technology giants usually dominate the conversation. But there is another part of the AI supply chain that deserves attention: electricity. AI data centres require enormous amounts of reliable power. As computing capacity expands, electricity demand is becoming an increasingly important issue for technology companies. This puts Constellation Energy (NASDAQ: CEG) in an interesting position. 1. Why Constellation Energy matters to the AI boom Constellation Energy is one of America’s largest electricity producers and operates a substantial nuclear power fleet. Nuclear energy has an important advantage for data centres: it can provide reliable, around-the-clock electricity without the intermittency associated with wind and solar ge
AI Power Infrastructure – The Real Bottleneck Game
PWR and ETN are the purest picks-and-shovels plays on the biggest structural force in U.S. electricity right now: Exploding power demand from AI data centers + the multi-decade grid rebuild. Here’s the clear-eyed view after both just reported. $Quanta(PWR)$ $Eaton Corp PLC(ETN)$ 1. Quanta Services (PWR) – Orders Are Not the Problem Anymore The new constraint Backlog hit $63.7 billion (up ~$10 billion in one quarter). Remaining performance obligations: $41.8 billion. Company added ~26,000 people this year. Management’s blunt message: labor is no longer the bottleneck. Transformers, conductors, poles, and switchgear are. When a contractor with $63 billion of work is forced to start manufac
Jensen Huang's Affair Shakes Nvidia. Micron, Tesla and SpaceX Are at a Crossroads. My Four Stocks to Watch This Week.
$NVIDIA(NVDA)$ $Micron Technology(MU)$ $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ $SpaceX(SPCX)$ Wall Street is about to face a very unusual trading week. Just when investors thought the worst of the AI selloff might be behind us, Nvidia has another problem. And this time? IT ISN'T ABOUT AI DEMAND. It's about leadership. Nvidia closed Friday at: $186.64. But overnight trading indicated another decline of approximately: 4%. Meanwhile, Friday's recovery showed: MU: +5.12% TSLA: +4.23% SPCX: +8.62% So are we entering another round of AI selling? Or will investors separate the companies with real demand from
Why Did SReits Go Up Recently While Singapore Banks Dip?
🌟🌟🌟The stock market constantly moves money from one sector to another. Recently Singapore's Big 3 local banks DBS, OCBC and UOB saw their share prices dip. This happened because investors were worried about slower global growth and changing trade rules, which might cool down bank profits. At the same time, investors moved their money into Singapore Real Estate Investment Trusts (SReits). Reits are companies that own properties like malls, offices, industrial buildings and even hospitals. For the past few years, high interest rates made borrowing expensive for REITs, which hurt their share prices. Now, interest rates are starting to flatten out or drop. Because lower interest rates mean smaller debt bills for landlords, investors are rushing back to REITs
[Events] CPI & PPI This Week: Nasdaq Rally or Selloff?
Wall Street is coming off a turbulent week, and another major test lies ahead. Last week, investors digested two significant developments: the U.S. midterm elections and a stronger-than-expected jobs report. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, while the U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in October, with the unemployment rate holding at 4.1%. The stronger jobs data highlighted the resilience of the U.S. economy, but it also raised questions about the Federal Reserve's next move. If the labor market remains strong, will the Fed have less reason to cut interest rates? Meanwhile, tech stocks remained under pressure. Nvidia, AMD and Meta were caught in the selloff as investors grew increasingly concerned about stretched valuations, rising AI spending and whether those investments
Trump Reveals DOJ Issued Midnight Jail Warning to Unnamed Tech CEO
Late at night, inside Muthu boy’s noisy prata stall, three tech titans sit slumped over a corner table: Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Dario Amodei. Open bottles of beer clutter the table alongside half-eaten roti prata. Tears stream down all three of their faces. Muthu boy walks up with a fresh basket of hot prata, looks at them in shock, and asks, "Aiyoh, boss! What happened to all of you?" Jensen Huang wipes his eyes, takes a heavy sip of beer, and sighs, "I might be the one heading straight to jail... Turns out I was dating a spy, and now my wife and daughter won't even look at me." Dario Amodei and Elon Musk just bury their heads in their hands and keep sobbing. What's Really Happening Behind the Drama? The internet is currently in a tailspin following President Donald
Musk Put $500 Billion on SpaceX by 2027 — Two Dates Have to Land First
Elon Musk told the Baron Investment Conference in New York on November 6 that SpaceX's annualized recurring revenue will "very likely" clear $500 billion by December 2027 — "not a promise, just my best guess," and $1 trillion is not impossible [S: Cailian Press, 7 Nov 2026]. The market's first reaction came Friday: $SpaceX(SPCX)$ closed at $134.27, up 8.62%, still below the $135 IPO price from its June listing — the largest IPO in history at roughly $86 billion raised [S: Cailian Press, 7 Nov 2026]. The gap is enormous: Q3 2026 revenue of roughly $14.6 billion annualizes to only about $58.4 billion [S: Tencent News / Fusion Fund interview, 9 Nov 2026]. This piece answers one question: what has to actually happen before December 11 for that gap to
🎁Weekly EPS Growth & Dividend Leaders: CSCO, AMAT, MUFG, PBR, MFG and more
😀Hi Tigers, As the Q3 earnings season unfolds, we’re taking a closer look at potential outperformers from two key angles: EPS expectations and dividend performance. In the first part, we highlight the top 20 stocks by market capitalization with stronger EPS estimates ahead of their earnings, scheduled between November 9 and November 13. 🎁Weekly Higher EPS Estimates: CSCO, AMAT, MUFG, PBR, MFG & More 1. Why EPS Matters? Earnings per share(EPS) refer to the income per share brought to investors/shareholders in the open market. EPS is calculated as a company's profit divided by the outstanding shares of its common stock. The resulting number serves as an indicator of a company's profitability. Investors like companies with high profitability, and the market always rewards those earnings r
Anthropic's $3.4 Billion Queue-Jump Puts Caterpillar's Backlog at the Center of AI
The deal: an AI lab bought a two-year-old queue ticket On Sunday, November 8, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic, the developer of Claude, agreed to pay about $3.4 billion to take over commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty gas generators from OnePWR Solutions, a San Antonio, Texas-based equipment supplier. It is, per the FT, the largest known single power-equipment purchase by an AI lab. The structure is the interesting part. Anthropic did not buy a power plant, sign a power purchase agreement, or acquire OnePWR — no employees transferred. What it bought was a purchase order: OnePWR had ordered those generators from Caterpillar roughly two years ago, before equipment prices surged, and could not secure the financing to close. Piper Sandler, which advised OnePWR, confirmed a
🐶 Monday Market Morning: Futures Are Flat, But All Eyes Are on Interest Rates! Can the Fed Move Wall Street This Week? me on Tiger Trade!
🐶 Good morning, everyone! Monday, 9 November 2026. A new trading week begins, and the US futures market is looking relatively flat this morning. There is no major directional conviction just yet. Bulls are waiting for another reason to push prices higher, while bears are looking for signs that inflation and interest rates could remain a problem. For Options Puppy, this is exactly the kind of market where I prefer to slow down, observe and collect option premiums rather than chase every green or red candle. This week, my biggest focus is not simply whether the Nasdaq or S&P 500 goes up or down. It is what the Federal Reserve thinks about inflation, economic growth and the future direction of interest rates. I have four calendar entries worth watching today: * Monthly Wholesale Trade. *
Midterm Dynamics, Tech Valuation Recalibration, and Employment Surprises Drag U.S. Stocks Sharply Lower
U.S. stock markets finished the week of November 2–6, 2026, sharply lower after a volatile ride driven by the U.S. congressional midterm elections, a massive artificial intelligence (AI) and chip stock sell-off, and a stronger-than-expected October jobs report. In this article, we would like to share our comprehensive Analysis of the Volatile Trading Week of November 2–6, 2026. 1. Weekly Index Performance The U.S. equity benchmarks sustained notable losses for the week ending November 6, 2026. Tech-heavy indices recorded the deepest drawdowns, while blue-chip industrial indices demonstrated comparative stability despite high intra-week volatility. 2. Key Week-Day Breakdown A daily timeline reveals how shifting narrative catalysts—from energy sell-offs and election projections to semiconduc
$NVIDIA(NVDA)$ launches investigation after Jensen Huang admits affair with alleged Chinese spy From Alice Huang’s social media account (she just closed her account) I didn’t even bother to search if she’s married. But even if she were, this kind of social media post is common in China , and maybe even a way for her to disguising the affair. My personal view on her: she’s being used. Literally. By all sides. I don’t think Nvidia lost anything in this affair, Jensen’s family did lose some, hope they handle it well. Nvidia has launched an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang, shown speaking at Dreamforce in San Francisco in September, acknowledged having an affair with an executive who U.S.
5. Earnings Radar and teaching case - CISCO (09Nov2026)
5. The Earnings Radar Figure 2 — Your Earnings Whispers board for the week of 9 Nov 2026. Image is low-resolution; swap in a full-size capture before publish. Monday opens the week with old-economy ballast and new-economy side bets: Barrick and Occidental on commodities, Constellation Energy and NRG on the power-hungry grid theme, monday.com on software, and Hims & Hers, AST SpaceMobile and Plug Power after the close — the last three being the kind of story stocks an audit market punishes first. Tuesday is the AI complex’s first testimony. Before the open: Sea and onsemi. After the close: CoreWeave — consensus is a loss of about US$1.17 a share — whose comments on Anthropic and NVIDIA demand will likely set the tone for the whole AI trade this week, with Rigetti and D-Wave adding the q
IonQ Sold Out Its 2027 Machines, Tripled Its Loss — and the Stock Still Says No
$IONQ Inc.(IONQ)$ just reported the strongest quarter in its history — and the market treated it like a rumor. On Thursday, November 5, the quantum computing company posted Q3 FY2026 revenue of $173.8 million, up 336% year over year, smashing the $141.49 million consensus estimate (FiscalAI data via Watch List News). Management raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $505–515 million from $450–460 million, remaining performance obligations more than doubled to $1.2 billion, and the company says its Superion 256 capacity for 2027 is sold out. None of that stopped the stock closing at $26.63 on November 5, just 6.9% above its 52-week low (24/7 Wall St). Friday brought a violent rethink: the stock traded up $5.69 to $32.12 by midday on 42.7 million
AppLovin Grew 55% Into the AI Crash — and Bought Back Its Own Dip
Last Thursday the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 12.2% in one session, its worst day in more than six years, the S&P 500 technology sector dropped 7.3% and the Nasdaq lost 5.5% as investors marked down anything tied to datacenter construction (Cailianshe weekly wrap, 8 Nov 2026). By Friday's close the week's best large US stock was not a chipmaker:$ $AppLovin Corporation(APP)$ finished at $390.02, up 64.59%, while $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ lost 3.07% and $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$ fell 5.65% (ABCMoney, consolidated exchange data, week ending 8 Nov 2026). AppLovin did not rally because the AI narrative improved. It rallied because its 4 November quarter ma
My Pick: C. Trade Sideways (-1% to +1%) I expect the Nasdaq to trade sideways this week, with volatility remaining elevated. The market faces a tug-of-war between economic resilience and inflation risks. Stronger employment suggests the US economy remains healthy, but it could also give the Fed less reason to cut rates, keeping pressure on growth stocks. Tuesday's CPI report will be the biggest catalyst. Cooling inflation could push Treasury yields lower and support tech stocks. However, hotter inflation could further pressure elevated AI valuations. More importantly, investors need evidence that massive AI capital expenditure can translate into sustainable earnings and free cash flow. My strategy is to avoid chasing a relief rally and watch Treasury yields and semiconductor performance. P
IREN’s $15 Billion AI Gamble: Is the Microsoft Deal Worth the Risk?
The AI infrastructure boom is creating enormous opportunities, but it is also becoming increasingly expensive to participate. $IREN Ltd(IREN)$ the Australia-based data centre operator, is a good example of both sides of this story. The company reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven by growth in its AI cloud business. However, it also announced delays to some infrastructure deliveries under its agreement with Microsoft and outlined another US$15 billion spending commitment. This creates an interesting investment dilemma. IREN is clearly benefiting from growing demand for AI computing, but can it build infrastructure quickly enough and generate sufficient returns to justify the enormous capital required? 1. The Microsoft agre