β’ CoreWeave's blowout quarter and raised guidance lit up the whole AI chip complex
β’ Google Cloud's new TPU systems run on AMD EPYC host processors
β’ Oppenheimer upgraded $AMD to Outperform with a $600 target, and Freedom Capital started coverage at Buy with $620
β’ UBS says server CPU shipments jumped 31% last quarter, with AMD holding about 28.4% share as $INTC loses ground
β’ AMD's data center revenue hit a record $8.5B last quarter, up 97% year over year
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β’ October's print accelerated from September's 6.8%, keeping factory gate inflation above 6% for a sixth straight month
β’ The Bank of Japan data shows raw materials, oil, industrial metals and the weak yen are keeping producer prices elevated
β’ Producer prices feed through to consumer prices, so the hot print keeps pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise rates again, which would support the yen and squeeze exporters
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JUST IN: Nvidia $NVDA is down over 7% in after hours trading after the Wall Street Journal reported the board is preparing to remove CEO Jensen Huang.
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β’ The reported board move follows today's New York Times report of a second Huang relationship, with health care VP Kimberly Powell, a direct report
β’ $NVDA closed the regular session up 2.9% at $173.73, then reversed after hours toward $160, down as much as about 9% at the low
β’ Nvidia declined to comment, no decision has been announced, and the board investigation is already running ahead of earnings on November 17
β’ Partner CoreWeave $CRWV also slid about 8% after hours on the news
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JUST IN: Nvidia $NVDA falls in after hours trading after a New York Times report says CEO Jensen Huang had a second extramarital relationship, this time with a senior Nvidia executive who reports to him.
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β’ The Times names Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care, citing five people who worked at the company
β’ Two of the people say the pair were caught on video at a San Jose hotel during GTC in March, though the Times says it has not seen the video
β’ $NVDA fell about 3% to 4.5% after hours, and Polymarket odds of Huang resigning or being removed by year end jumped to about 31%
β’ This lands while the board's independent investigation into the earlier reported relationship is already running, with Nvidia earnings on November 17
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JUST IN: United Airlines $UAL is restricting unauthorized third party AI agents from booking, servicing or purchasing travel on its platforms, citing privacy, security and FAA and DOT regulatory risks.
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β’ United says sharing account credentials with AI assistants can expose personal data and lead to unintended purchases or use of MileagePlus miles
β’ Automated check in could also miss required safety acknowledgments, United says
β’ Bookings made by third party agents before Nov 11 will not be canceled
β’ AI research and planning tools that do not access United accounts remain allowed
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Happy Remembrance Day to our Canadian friends, and Happy Veterans Day to our American friends. π¨π¦πΊπΈ
Today we pause to remember all who served, and those who never came home.
Lest we forget. πΊ
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JUST IN: Baird downgrades Nvidia $NVDA to Neutral from Outperform and slashes its price target to $200 from $500, citing CEO uncertainty and AI spending risks.
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β’ Rating: Neutral, down from Outperform
β’ Price target: $200, cut from $500
β’ Baird is one of only a few of 64 LSEG tracked analysts at hold or lower
β’ Analyst Tristan Gerra flagged Huang CEO uncertainty during the board review, a possible new H200 export ban on China, and an estimated $5 billion inventory write-down risk
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Small caps watch list for this morning, on the move in pre-market with high volume:
π’ $SHFS +66.04%, $0.03, 287.3M shares pre-market
π’ $HUHU +51.01%, $0.60, 13.2M shares pre-market
π’ $RCT +41.37%, $0.04, 155.5M shares pre-market
π’ $YMAT +32.5%, $1.32, 12.5M shares pre-market
π’ $LICN +14.73%, $0.05, 47.9M shares pre-market
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JUST IN: OpenAI's quarterly revenue jumped about 50% to $10 billion in Q3, its first quarter ever above $10 billion, even as its operating loss widened to $10.9 billion.
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JUST IN: Costco $COST declares a $30 per share special cash dividend worth about $13.3 billion and reauthorizes a $4 billion share buyback.
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