Moments ago nvidia reported blowout Q3 earnings with revenue tripling as AI chip boom continues
However, it warns of "significant" China slowdown, guidance matches whisper range; stock is down 1% after-hours... The blowout earnings were certainly good news... but the warning about declining China sales and the guidance which only tagged the top end of the whisper guidance, that was not quite as exciting, and as a result, the stock initially dumped as much as $30 after hours, before recovering most of its losses, but has since resumed drifting 1% lower, setting up the stock for its first post-earnings drop since the advent of ChatGPT almost exactly one year ago. Source: App Economy Insights
Charted: The Average Cost of Insulin By Country by Visual Capitalist
Drug prices in the U.S. are notoriously high for many important medications, including insulin. When comparing the cost of insulin by country, we see that the difference is not even close. This chart shows the average cost of insulin across OECD countries, based on a 2021 publication by RAND Corporation.
Existing Home Sales Crash To Slowest Since 2010
Sales actually fell 4.1% MoM (far worse than expected and down for the 20th time in the last 23 months) with September's 2.0% MoM decline revised even lower to -2.2% MoM. That decline left existing home sales down 14.6% YoY... Fewer US existing homes are selling today than at any point since 2010. The 3.79 million annual rate is even below the lowest level of sales during the 2020 covid shutdowns (4.01 million). The chart below by Francois Trahan puts things in greater perspective and shows that when adjusting for population, this is one of the worse housing profiles we have seen in decades. On this "per household" basis October existing home sales data was worse than the lowest reading seen at the depths of the GFC. Source: François Trahan
Ahead of Fed minutes... The market is now pricing in a 0% probability of a rate hike in December and rate cuts starting in May 2024
Source: Charlie Bilello
Bitcoin has surpassed Ethereum in transaction fees for the first time since mid-2020. It looks like Ordinals are playing a role
Source: Steno Research
YTD performance
Mag 7: +105% S&P 500: +19% Source: TME
Microsoft is now clearly ahead of Alphabet again in the AI race on the stock market
Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Today is the BIG DAY with Nvidia ($NVDA) earnings results after the bell
With the Nasdaq up more than 13% from the lows, $NVDA at all-time-high, 95% of sell-side analysts with a BUY rating on $NVDA (!) sentiment of AI probably at record optimistic level after Microsoft "aqui-hire" of openai and the $VIX historically low at 13.5, there is indeed room for a short-term pullback... Source: www.investing.com, kakashiii111
